Steigenberger Minerva Nile Cruise

Arrive in Luxor, where our REP will accompany you by an air-conditioned vehicle your Nile cruise ship. After lunch on board, enjoy a visit to the impressive Karnak Temples and Luxor Temple. You’ll have dinner on board the ship and stay overnight.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner.

Early breakfast onboard, then head out to visit the Royal Cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, the Valley of the Kings, then to the mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom during the 15th century BC. Travel on to the Colossi of Memnon. After lunch, you will sail to Edfu, enjoying a leisurely dinner on board. Overnight on board the ship.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

After breakfast on board, you’ll stop for a visit to the Temple of Edfu, the best-preserved temple of the ancient world. The structure is dedicated to Horus, the falcon god. You’ll then sail to Kom Ombo, where you’ll encounter the twin temple of Kom Ombo, where you’ll learn about the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Horus, whose monuments decorate each half of the temple. You’ll have your lunch back onboard the ship and sail on to Aswan. You’ll have dinner and stay overnight onboard the cruise ship.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

After your breakfast on the Nile cruise ship, enjoy a day’s sightseeing in Aswan. Start with the High Dam and then visit the Unfinished Obelisk in the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the largest obelisk yet discovered. You’ll then proceed to the beautiful Temple of Philae, devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor. You’ll have your dinner and stay overnight aboard the ship.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Check-out after breakfast, Transfer to Aswan airport /Hotels /Train Terminal

Once you arrive in Aswan, our REP will escort you to board the Nile cruise. Lunch meal on board the cruise. You will have a guided tour to visit The Unfinished Obelisk lies, in its original location, in a granite quarry in Aswan. It is 42m in length and was most probably abandoned when some cracks appeared in the rock, during its construction. Had this obelisk been completed, it would have been the heaviest obelisk ever cut in Ancient Egypt, weighing nearly 1100 tons! Also, you will visit the Temple of Isis at Philae, one of the greatest Temples in Egypt and it occupies about a quarter of the island. Back to the ship for overnight stay.

Breakfast on board the cruise in Aswan. At 10 A.M sail over to Kom Ombo to take a tour of the temple there. Head back north to Edfu by 2 P.M. and visit the temple dedicated to Horus and Hathor placed there by the ancient Egyptians. The colonnaded facade faces the Nile River and presents a multitude of scenes from Egyptian mythology, life and religion carved into its stone surface. During sailing enjoy lunch then head back to Esna for dinner and a Galabeya party with crew and fellow travellers staying aboard tonight.

Breakfast will be served while sailing to Luxor. In arrival you will tour the West Bank of the Nile River, where you will visit Colossi of Memnon and Valley of the Kings, a series of tombs hidden deep in desert rock richly decorated with treasure for the pharaohs’ afterlife. After lunch you will tour the East Bank of Luxor; the famous Karnak and Luxor temples. Then it is back to the ship for dinner. Overnight stay in Luxor

Disembark the ship after breakfast. Then you will be transferred to the point of your departure in Luxor (Airport – Train terminal ).