Day 1 � Hurghada to Luxor
The day starts early by meeting our repersentative at the reception of your hotel in Hurghada. drive directly to Luxor where your tour guide will be waiting for you there .
Explore the Valley of the Kings
Your tour guide will then whisk you from Luxor airport to the spectacular Valley of the Kings where the majority of the Pharaohs of XVIIIto the XX dynasty were buried and the Valley of the Queens, is the necropolis of the royal wives, of the girls, sometimes of wire of the kings of XIX and XX dynasties.
Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
Then continue towards the two imposing Colossiof Memnon, last remains of the gigantic funerary temple of Amenhotep III, which when constructed was the largest temple in the Theban area, larger than the complex at Karnak, and covered an area of 350,000 square metres.
Temple of Hatshepsut
Finally before lunch visit of the Temple of Hatshepsut, the funerary temple of Hatshepsut, dedicated to the Amongod, but also to the gods Anubis and Hathor. This temple th�bain is single and is distinguished from the other temples because it is partly dug in the rock of the mountain th�baine to which it leans, and rises on three terraces connected by approach ramps.
Lunch
Transfer from Temple of Hatchepsout to cruise liner in your private car. Have a delicious lunch after settling your selves in your cabin.
Temple of Karnak
Leave the boat after a lunch to visit the Temple ofKarnak, dedicated to the main thing of the worship to the glory of the Amongod, but like many other Egyptian temples, other gods and goddesses werevenerated there. It is the oldest known religious site in the world. Andthe Temple of Luxor, It was devoted to the dynastic god Amon under his twoaspects of celestial Amon-R� and ithyphallic divinity. The currently visible oldest parts go up in Amenhotep III and Rams�s II.
Sleep on boat
After an exciting day seeing the sights of Luxor, have a delicious dinner before settling down for the night in your cabin whilst you continue your journey down the Nile to Esna.
Day 2 - Luxor to Esna and Edfu
Breakfast on board
Start the morning with some breakfast as you travel towards Edfu, sailing past the amazing sights of the Nile.
Temple and Lock of Esna
After the Passage of the Lock of Esna, a once-in-a lifetime experience in its self, you will be guided around an amazing temple and the city of Esna its self. Then enjoy some time to yourself before continuing your journey towards Edfu.
Arrival to Edfu
Edfu is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people. Edfu is the site of the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus and an ancient settlement.
Dinner and night on board.
Day 3 - Edfu to Kom Ombo
Start the day with breakfast.
Temple of Edfu
The town is known for the major Ptolemaic temple, built between 237 BCE and 57 BCE, into the reign of Cleopatra VII. Of all the temple remains in Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved. Built from sandstone blocks, the huge Ptolemaic temple was constructed over the site of a smaller New Kingdom temple, oriented east to west, facing towards the river. The later structure faces north to south and leaves the ruined remains of the older temple pylon to be seen on the east side of the first court.
Lunch
Time to relax and have some lunch!
Kom Ombo
Navigation towards Kom Ombo. Ombos was a garrison town under every dynasty of Egypt, Pharaonic, Macedonian, and Roman, and was celebrated for the magnificence of its temples and its hereditary feud with the people of. Visit Temple of Kom Ombo, whosecharacteristic is to be dedicated to two divinities: Sobek (with head ofcrocodile) and Horus (with head of falcon).
Sleep whilst travelling to Aswan
Enjoy a delicious dinner and sleep whilst you float down the Nile to Aswan.
Day 4 � Kom Ombo to Aswan
Start the day with breakfast.
Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt to the south. Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name. This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia by the Greeks and Lucina by the Romans during their occupation of Ancient Egypt because of the similar association of their goddesses with childbirth, and of which the import is "the opener". The ancient name of the city also is said to be derived from the Egyptian symbol for trade.
Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain there was seven years earlier. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses
Temple of Philae
Visit Temple of Philae, dedicated to the worship of the Isis goddess, then the granite career with the Unfinished Obelisk and finally the High Nasser Stopping giving rise to the Lake Nasser.
Lunch
Time to relax and have some lunch!
Sleep after Oriental show and Dinner
To dinner on board followed on one oriental show (evening costumewith Eastern spectacle: dancer and traditional music). Dinner and night on board.
Day 5 � transfer from Aswan back to Hurghada
Breakfast on board and some time to relax before check-out at 10:00. Transfer in your private car to Hurghada ( 5 Hours ) , back to your hotel
Minimum number : 2 persons .
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