DAY 01 SABİHA GÖKÇEN AIRPORT – HURGHADA – LUXOR
Meeting at Sabiha Gökçen Airport International Departures Terminal at 21.00 (the meeting will take place on Sunday night, January 24), completing our check-in procedures, and then departing for Hurghada with Pegasus Airlines flight PC624 at 01:20. Arrival in Hurghada at local time 03:00. We depart from Hurghada with the box breakfast to be given in the vehicle to transfer to our ship in Luxor. After check-in procedures, we leave the ship to visit the Karnak Temple, the largest temple complex in Egypt. After visiting the Karnak Temple, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and is the largest ancient structure ever built in the world, transfer to the ship and lunch. After lunch, we will visit the Luxor Temple, built by the 9th Pharaoh in the name of Amon, 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 stay 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 Hatshepsut Temple built in memory of the first female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. After visiting Hatshepsut, the oldest of the mortuary temples belonging to Queen Hatshepsut, we return to our ship and have lunch. The ship will depart for Edfu. Dinner and overnight stay on board.
DAY 03 EDFU – KOM OMBO – ASWAN
After breakfast, we will visit the Edfu Temple, completed in 57 BC, which is the Falcon-Headed Horus Temple. It will depart towards Kom Ombo. Lunch on board. After lunch, we visit the Kom Ombo Temple, the Temple of the Crocodile & Falcon God, on the banks of the Nile River. The reliefs inside Kom Ombo, the only temple shared by 2 gods, namely the god of goodness Horus and the god of evil Sobek, were erased by Copts who later used it as a church. The stones of the temple, damaged as a result of the floods of the Nile River and earthquakes, were used for other buildings. Departure to Aswan. Dinner and overnight stay on board.
DAY 04 ASWAN – ABU SIMBEL – ASWAN
Today we will receive our early breakfast as a lunchbox. We depart for Abu Simbel with our private vehicle. Upon arrival, we visit the Abu Simbel Temple, a magnificent masterpiece. This temple was built in Southern Egypt by Pharaoh Ramses II to show his enemies how powerful he was and for his love for his wife Nefertari. The temple, built by carving the inside of Mount Simbel, was moved back after a 6-year study led by UNESCO against the danger of remaining underwater during the construction of the Aswan Dam. After this fascinating tour, we return to Aswan with our private vehicle. Upon our arrival in Aswan, we will board our ship and have our lunch on board. After lunch, our tour will continue with the Philae Temple, which was dismantled and moved to Agilkia Island under the UNESCO Nubia Project before the dam was built. Transfer to the ship after the tour. Dinner and overnight stay on board.
DAY 05 CAIRO
After morning breakfast, we complete our check-out procedures from the ship. We provide our transfer to the Airport to carry out 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, Chephren, and Mycerinus, which are among the seven wonders of the world and took their names from the pharaohs who had them built. These 3 pyramids, built thousands of years ago and still preserving their mysteries, are designed to form a Pythagorean triangle among them. Built years before Pythagoras, these pyramids show that the Egyptians had very advanced mathematical and geometrical knowledge. 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, which is a "living statue" with a temple between its paws, we will have our lunch. After lunch, we will visit the workshop of handmade papyrus paper obtained 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, which is considered the first major stone monument on Earth, we return to our hotel. Dinner and overnight stay at our hotel.
DAY 06 CAIRO
After our breakfast, we will visit the old city center of Egypt, one of the oldest civilizations with a 7000-year history, the citadel newly built by Saladin against the crusaders, 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. In the museum, which offers a collection of 50,000 artifacts extending from prehistoric times to the present day, the personal belongings of Pharaoh Tutankhamun are also exhibited completely. At the end of the tours, free time will be given 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 – SABİHA GÖKÇEN AIRPORT
Departure to Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen at 03:05 with Pegasus Airlines flight PC583 in the early hours of the new day. Arrival at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport at local time 06:20. End of our tour
