Egypt Tours -   Five Star Nile Cruising In Egypt

    lisa ann

    One of the best Egypt tours you can take is an exciting 10-day Jewel of the Nile cruise and tour of Egypt where you will enjoy a five-star Egyptian adventure. Stay in one of Cairo's smartest hotels. You'll be shown Cairo including the Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza Plateau, Necropolis of Saqqara, Egyptian Museum by your experienced local Egyptologist guide.

    Setting sail on Egypt's famous river Nile, in style aboard a 5 star Nile cruiser you can enjoy all the luxuries of Nile cruising whilst relaxing and unwinding taking in the serenity of the Nile Valley, whilst discovering Edfu - Temple of Horus and the Temple of Kom Ombo. You can lap up a history feast in 4000 year old Luxor, home of the legendary Valley of the Kings and Temple of Karnak.

    More highlights on your Egypt tour include the legendary Valley of the Kings, studded with often highly decorated tombs, Valley of the Queens and the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Paquetes De Viajes A Turquía A major highlight will be to visit the Luxor Temple, when dusk falls a, which looks simply stunning with its beautifully illuminated hieroglyphics.

    Arriving in Aswan on your you'll visit the Philae Temple and the High Dam then and take a traditional felucca boat journey to Elephantine and Kitchener Island.

    As the sun sets wander through the colourful souqs and markets shopping for various Egyptian souvenirs and spices and later relax onboard watching an amazing sunset in Egypt's southern most town straddling the River Nile.

    From Aswan you can take a flight to nearby Abu Simbel, and no Egypt tour is complete without a visit to possibly the most awe-inspiring temple of all ancient Egypt. With its gargantuan rock-cut façade, the great Sun Temple of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel was created to revere the mighty pharaonic ruler King Ramses II, adorned with four famous colossal statues of the pharaoh himself.

    Ramses II had the entire temple carefully angled and oriented in order that the sun's rays would align twice a year on his date of his ascension to the throne (21 February) and on his birthday (21 October) and illuminate the inner sanctum of the temple. This is surely a great highlight for any tour to Egypt.