Free morning. Have the chance to visit Abu Simbel (Optional) in the early morning.

Sailing to Kom Ombo, having lunch on board, visit Kom Ombo is an industrial town 45 km north of Aswan. Its classical name was Ombos, the temple is very unusual. It was dedicated to two triads of deities, each with their own associated chambers and sanctuaries. On the eastern side of the temple, the crocodile god Sobek is honored with his wife who is here named as Hathor and their son Khonsu. On the west side, Haroeris or ‘Horus the Elder’ is accompanied by his wife Hathor-ta-sent-nefert and their son Panebtawy. The main part of the temple was probably begun by Ptolemy VI Philometor, on the inside of the enclosure wall at the rear of the temple is a famous relief depicting surgical instruments

Sail to Edfu, dinner and night on board

Breakfast on board. Transfer by horse carriage to visit the Temple of Horus located in the town of Edfu that derives its name from the ancient Egyptian Djeba which was the place where the god Horus was worshiped and where the battle between Horus and his traditional enemy Seth in ancient mythology took place. The main monument at Edfu is the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus The sand has helped to preserve the building which was found completely intact when it was first cleared and excavated by Auguste Mariette in the 1860s it is the most well-preserved and the only that has been completed, was constructed from sandstone blocks in time of Ptolemy III Euergetes I in 237 BC, and was completed 57 BC.

Sailing to Luxor, having lunch on board, visit The East Bank.

The Egyptians believed that towards the end of the annual agricultural cycle the gods and the earth became exhausted and required a fresh input of energy from the chaotic energy of the cosmos. To accomplish this magical regeneration the Opet festival was held yearly the procession began at Karnak and ended at Luxor temple

Karnak Temple. A city of temples built over 2,000 years It is the largest religious building ever made, covering about 1.5 km by 0.8 km could hold ten average European cathedrals. The great temple at the heart of Karnak is so big that St Peter’s, Milan, and Notre Dame Cathedrals would fit within its walls. with the largest number of pylons in all the Egyptian temples dedicated to the sacred triad of Thebes Gods, Amun, his wife Mut, and their son Khonsu

Luxor Temple Lying at the other end of Thebes connected with Karnak by the avenue of sphinxes the temple was built by Amenhotep III completed by Tutankhamun and Horemheb from the XVIII dynasty and finally, Ramses II from the XIX dynasty added the first pylon later the sanctuary was reconstructed by Alexander the Great

After the tour go back to the cruise to have dinner and stay on board overnight in Luxor

Check out the Nile cruise and start your accommodation in one of Luxor hotels and visit the following;

Valley of the Kings is one of the oldest Royal burial places in all over the world. It consists of more than 60 rock-cut tombs carved out of a big mountain which looks like a huge natural Pyramid overlooking the Nile on the west bank of Luxor, more than a third of this number of tombs used for burying the great pharaohs ruled Egypt from the 16th century to 11th century B.C which considered the glamorous days of Ancient Egypt known as the New Kingdom period (18th, 19th and 20th dynasties), such as the famous pharaohs Thotmosis lll, Sity l Ramses ll, Ramses lll, etc. Each tomb consists of 3 or 4 large corridors decorated with bright and colorful scenes, paintings and carvings representing philosophical ideas and future vision of the Hereafter, which explained and illustrated in 9 Holly books such as the book of deads, the book of caverns etc..., those large corridors end by the most important point of the tomb which is the burial chamber supposedly to have the most valuable objects of the treasure buried around the Pharaoh's mummy, as well we can see a very large painting of goddess Nut the goddess of the Sky and the journey of day and night, some of these burial chambers still has the sarcophagus you hardly believe it is cut out of single piece of granite brought from Aswan quarries 130 miles south of Luxor and taken dawn more than 300fts into the mountain, So many excavators worked in Valley of the Kings, such as Howard Carter who discovered the discovery of the discoveries of the 20th century which is the intact tomb of King Tut Ankh Amon occurred in 4th of November 1922.

Lunch in a local restaurant later you will visit the funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut called "the Holy of Holies”. It is one of the best architecture buildings. It consists of three levels connected with each other by ramps and has different scenes on its walls depicting the divine birth of the Queen and her Commercial expedition to Punt Land. The temple is mainly dedicated to worship the supreme god Amon-Ra finally you stop by the two Colossi of Memnon which are two massive statues representing King Amenhotep III in a seating position in front of his funerary temple.

After the tour you go back to the hotel, you have the possibility to enjoy an optional tour to Sound and light show in Karnak

After breakfast, you will cross the Nile once again to the west bank to visit Madinat Habu complex here Ramses III constructed his larger memorial temple the whole temple complex was surrounded by a massive fortified enclosure wall, with an unusual gateway at the eastern entrance, known as the pavilion gate. This structure, a copy of Syrian Migdal fortresses is something you would not expect to see in Egypt.

Later you visit the tombs of the nobles are more than 400 tombs belonging to nobles from the VI dynasty to the Greco-Roman period, decorated with scenes of their daily lives.

Afterwards, you visit the village of Deir el-Medina was a special village for craftsmen working on the royal tombs, and for their families. It functioned for almost 500 years. The oldest burials on the site date back to the time of Hatshepsut but there are tombs of the XVIII Dynasty found elsewhere.

Lunch in a local restaurant and return to your hotel

After breakfast, and check out the hotel you will be picked up by air-conditioned car to Dendera temple 60 km north of Luxor dedicated to goddess Hathor. The actual temple dates back to 125 B.C completed during Roman times, although there are texts which refer to earlier shrines on the site from the old kingdom onward, it is unique because the roof is still intact and visitors can admire the beautiful ceiling divided into 7 bands of well-preserved astronomical figures featuring the sky goddess Nut, vultures and winged sun-discs and the Roman signs of the Zodiac. Not only that but this temple has the only relief which represented Queen Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion,


Continue for about 90 km north to Abydos there you visit the temple of Seti I, the largest of the extant Abydos temples, built of limestone and sandstone blocks to an unusual L-shaped plan, it has seven sanctuaries instead of the usual one (or three). This temple was built in Dynasty XIX by Seti I, but the decorations of the courtyards and the first hypostyle hall were completed by his son Ramses II. On one of the corridors, you see the famous scene of Seti I and his young son Ramses offer to a list of cartouches of 76 kings. Seti holds a censor while Rameses reads from a papyrus scroll. The cartouches begin with the King Menes of Dynasty I and end with Seti, I and are obviously carefully selected to be those which the king considered his legitimate ancestors. Some rulers omitted include Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Smenkhare, Tutankhamun and Ay.

Lunch in a local restaurant and at the scheduled time you will be transferred to Luxor airport or the train station