5 Days Cairo and Luxor Vacation

In the early morning, after eating your marvelous breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, you will meet your Egyptologist guide and begin your amazing Cairo Day Tours to Giza Plateau to visit:

the Great Pyramid of Cheops:

Today you are going to know how the pyramids were built. and you will learn about one of the oldest wonders of the ancient world remains largely in existence, it occupies 230 square meters and used to be 147 meters in height.

the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus:

Who also were kings and rulers of Egypt during the fourth dynasty and successors of Khufu the builder of the Great Pyramid.

The famous Sphinx:

See the beautiful lion statue with the head of a man which stood here for more the forty-five centuries and the Valley Temple facing the great statue to learn about mummification in ancient Egypt as well during our Egypt Classic Tours. The tour also covers a panoramic tour to view all Giza pyramids together in a scenic landscape. Now it is time for tricky photos and it can be done easily with the help of your tour guide. You can enjoy a camel ride around the Giza pyramids for 15 minutes during the tour to Giza Pyramids (optional).

Let's move to Saqqara:

Visit the step pyramid Complex and the first building entirely made out of stone all over the world (Djoser Pyramid). We will enter the pyramid of Teti which has the most spectacular interior amongst all the accessible pyramids and the Tombs of the Nobles at Saqqara to see the daily life scenes in ancient Egypt with all its activities inscribed and painted on the walls and corridors of those 4000 years old tombs.

Stop to take your lunch in an oriental restaurant then your tour guide and driver will take you to Memphis:

The capital of the pharaohs for one thousand years and a very important religious and cultural center throughout the three thousand years of ancient Egyptian civilization, to visit the open-air museum famous for having the alabaster Sphinx the second largest made out of eighty tons blocks of marble and the fallen gigantic statue of Ramses II.

Back to your hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel then around 3:30 am You will transfer to the Cairo International Airport and take your flight to Luxor. Upon arrival to Luxor, you will be met and assisted by Cairo Top Tours Local agent then begin your full-day tour to the west bank of the Nile Valley in Luxor as follows:

Valley of the Kings Where you going to learn about the development of the royal tomb in ancient Egypt after the Pharaohs were no longer buried inside the Pyramids due to the tomb robbery.

The Colossi of Memnon This represents the Pharoah on a gigantic scale seated on the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt in front of his funeral temple.

Continue Luxor day tours to see the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut:

It was built by one of the most talented architects of the ancient world, and the Arabs called it The Temple of Deir El Bahari.

We will also take you to enjoy the East Bank of Luxor tour, where you will visit the complex of Karnak Temples:

That was considered the most important religious complex throughout ancient Egypt.

Late check-in and have some rest before visiting Luxor Temples:

Where the lights at night inside the temple make a special atmosphere, you will admire the pillared courtyard under which Luxor cachette was discovered and the granite statues of Ramses II then you will be transferred back to your Hotel.

Overnight in Luxor

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After having your breakfast, resume your Egypt Classic Tours itinerary. Our representative will pick up you from the hotel to catch your flight back to Cairo and begin your Cairo day tours from the airport, you will have the chance to visit the Egyptian Museum, which contains the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities all over the world and the only royal treasure found intact the Treasures of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamen.

After that, we will transfer you to the Citadel of Saladin including the Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque inside, built on a high plateau, and thanks to its strategic location, the citadel served to fortify Cairo during the Islamic era. You can get a panoramic view of Islamic Cairo with mosques, minarets, and domes hundreds of years old and some above one thousand years old.

Continue to Coptic Cairo tour to visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and the Hanging Church suspended above its ancient bastions, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was built in the 7th century and it became the official residence of the Coptic patriarchs during the 11th century. Visit the church of St Sergius with the crypt inside which the holy family stayed nearly three months and the spring from which they got their water supplies then we will visit Ben Ezra Synagogue said to be the site of the pharaoh’s palace where the basket of Moses was picked up from the Nile.

After having lunch, we will move to start the Islamic Cairo tour to explore the authentic walls and gates of this medieval city and its old streets date back to the 10th century the walk end by having tea at Fishawy oldest cafe in Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s old bazaar.

Check into the hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your final included breakfast in your 5 Days Cairo and Luxor Vacation at the hotel, you will check out at 12:00 pm and as per the requested pickup time, our tour leader will transfer you to the airport and will assist you through the final departure procedures.

Meals: Breakfast