DAY 01 SABIHA GÖKÇEN AIRPORT – HURGHADA – LUXOR
Meeting at Sabiha Gökçen Airport International Departures Terminal at 21:00 (the meeting will take place on Sunday night, March 7th), we complete our check-in procedures and then depart for Hurghada at 23:55 with AJET Airlines flight VF253. Arrival in Hurghada at 01:40 local time. We leave Hurghada to transfer to our ship in Luxor with a boxed breakfast provided in the vehicle. After check-in, we leave the ship to visit the Karnak Temple, the largest temple complex in Egypt. After touring the Karnak Temple, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is the largest ancient structure ever built in the world, we transfer to the ship for lunch. After lunch, we will visit the Luxor Temple, built by the 9th Pharaoh in the name of Amun, the greatest of the ancient Egyptian gods, in Luxor, home to the world's largest open-air museum. After our tour of the temple, which resembles an open-air museum, we return to our ship. Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 02 LUXOR – ESNA – EDFU
After breakfast, we depart for our Valley of the Kings tour. After visiting the royal tombs, we will also see the Temple of Hatshepsut, built in memory of the first female pharaoh. After visiting the Temple of Hatshepsut, the oldest of the mortuary temples belonging to Queen Hatshepsut, we return to our ship and have lunch. Our ship will depart for Edfu. Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 03 EDFU – KOM OMBO – ASWAN
After breakfast, we will visit the Edfu Temple, the Falcon-Headed Temple of Horus, completed in 57 BC. Our ship will depart for Kom Ombo. Lunch on board. After lunch, we visit the Kom Ombo Temple, the Temple of the Crocodile and Falcon Gods, on the banks of the Nile River. The reliefs inside Kom Ombo, the only temple shared by two gods, the god of goodness Horus and the god of evil Sobek, were erased by the Copts who later used this place as a church. The stones of the temple, damaged by the flooding of the Nile and earthquakes, were taken to be used in other constructions. Departure for Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 04 ASWAN – ABU SIMBEL – ASWAN
Today we will have our early breakfast as a packed meal. We depart for Abu Simbel by private vehicle. Upon arrival, we visit the Abu Simbel Temple, a magnificent masterpiece. This temple was built in Southern Egypt by Pharaoh Ramesses II to show his enemies how powerful he was and to express his love for his wife Nefertari. The temple, carved into Mount Simbel, was moved back after a six-year project led by UNESCO to prevent it from being submerged during the construction of the Aswan Dam. After this fascinating tour, we return to Aswan by our private vehicle. Upon our arrival in Aswan, we will board our ship and have lunch on board. After lunch, we will continue our tour with the Philae Temple, which was dismantled and moved to Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Project before the dam was built. Transfer to the ship after the tour. Dinner and overnight on board.
DAY 05 ASWAN – CAIRO
After breakfast, we complete our check-out procedures from the ship. We provide our transfer to the airport to take our Aswan–Cairo flight with our private vehicle waiting for us for the Giza Pyramids Tour. Our first stop will be the Pyramids of Cheops, Khafre, and Menkaure, which are among the seven wonders of the world and named after the pharaohs who commissioned them. These three pyramids, built thousands of years ago and still retaining their mysteries, were designed to form a Pythagorean triangle between them. Built years before Pythagoras, these pyramids show that the Egyptians had very advanced knowledge of mathematics and geometry. After visiting the mysterious pyramids, we will see the Sphinx, which has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion, representing the rising sun and resurrection for the pharaoh. After visiting the Sphinx, a living statue with a temple between its paws, we will have lunch. After lunch, we will visit a workshop for handmade papyrus paper made from Egypt's famous papyrus plant. After the workshop visit, we will visit the Saqqara Pyramid, also known as the step pyramid, located in Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt. After visiting the Saqqara Pyramid, considered the first major stone monument in the world, we return to our hotel. Dinner and overnight at our hotel.
DAY 06 CAIRO
After breakfast, we will visit the old city center of Egypt, one of the oldest civilizations with a 7000-year history, the Citadel built by Saladin against the Crusades, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Ottoman governor, and the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar. After having lunch at a local restaurant during our tour, we will go to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened magnificently on November 1, 2025. Offering a collection of 50,000 artifacts ranging from prehistoric times to the present, the museum also displays the personal belongings of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in their entirety. At the end of the tours, free time will be given for you to explore the city as you wish. We meet at the time determined by our guide and transfer to the airport. Rest until our flight time after passport and baggage procedures.
DAY 07 CAIRO – SABIHA GÖKÇEN AIRPORT
In the early hours of the new day, we depart for Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen at 04:55 with AJET Airlines flight VF248. Arrival at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport at 08:25 local time. End of our tour.
