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4 days · Nile cruise
Three nights sailing north from Aswan to Luxor, taking in Philae, Kom Ombo, Edfu, the Valley of the Kings and finally Karnak. Full board on board, and the sightseeing runs as a shared group of about fifteen.
About this trip
Three nights sailing north from Aswan to Luxor, taking in Philae, Kom Ombo, Edfu, the Valley of the Kings and finally Karnak. Full board on board, and the sightseeing runs as a shared group of about fifteen.
This is a nile cruise route through Aswan · Kom Ombo · Edfu · Luxor, run privately unless you pick a group departure. Your guide is a licensed Egyptologist who lives on the route rather than flying in with the group.
Nothing here is fixed. Days can be added, dropped or reordered, and we will tell you honestly which optional sites are worth the extra ticket.
Your trip
Open any day for the full description. Every day can be changed before anything is booked.
Day 1Met at Aswan airport and taken straight to the boat. The afternoon is the Unfinished Obelisk, still lying in the granite quarry where it cracked, and then the Temple of Philae on its island. Lunch, dinner and the first night on board.
Day 2Sail to Kom Ombo, breakfast on board, then the double temple shared between Sobek and Haroeris. Sail on to Edfu, lunch on board, and the Temple of Horus in the afternoon — the most complete temple in Egypt. Dinner and the night on board.
Day 3Sail to Luxor and take breakfast on board before crossing to the West Bank: the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon. Lunch, dinner and the last night on board.
Day 4Breakfast aboard, then disembark and visit the East Bank: Karnak and Luxor temples. A hot air balloon flight over the west bank is offered as an option on this morning, at extra cost and at first light. Transfer to Luxor airport for your flight out.
Want this written up for your dates — travel times, what each day asks of you and where you would sleep? Ask us for the full 4-day plan. We send it before you commit to anything.
Included
Not included
Good to know
A group. The operator states it plainly: all sightseeing from the cruise runs as a shared small group of roughly fifteen people. Your airport transfers are by private air-conditioned vehicle, but the temple visits are shared with other passengers from the boat.
No. Domestic flights are excluded on this trip, along with international ones. You need to get yourself to Aswan for day one and home from Luxor on day four, and both are separate bookings. You are met at Aswan airport and dropped at Luxor airport.
Aswan to Luxor — northbound, with the current. It is the shorter and usually the cheaper of the two directions. It also front-loads the quiet end of the river: you start at Philae and finish with Karnak on the morning you fly out.
All of them on board. Three nights of full board, starting with lunch on the day you embark and ending with breakfast on the day you disembark. Drinks on board are paid extra. The boats publish no drinks price list, so ask for one before you board. Bottled water in the vehicle during transfers is covered.
International and domestic flights, your Egypt entry visa, extra meals and beverages, optional tours, tipping, and additional entry tickets. Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings is the usual example of the last one: it is a separate ticket bought at the site.
A fair amount on three of the four days, in the open and mostly on sand or uneven stone. The Valley of the Kings means walking between tomb entrances and down into them, and Karnak is a large site. The boat is your base every evening, which makes it easier going than a land trip of the same length.
Tipping is excluded from the price and it is expected. Allow US$10–15 per person per day for the guide and about US$5 per person per day for the driver. On the boat there is a crew box at US$5–10 per person per night, collected once at the end and split between the cabin stewards, waiters and deck crew.
Entry rules, opening hours, security advice and exchange rates all move. Check them at the source, not here.
Before you travel
You are quoted by the local company that runs the trip. No booking fee and no surcharge at the airport.
Not a tour escort with a flag. Our partner uses guides who have spent twenty years on the same temples.
Some tickets are. Some are a queue in the heat. We will tell you which before you pay for them.
Your guide, your driver, your pace. Group departures are labelled clearly on the card and the page.
Our partner is in Egypt, in Egyptian hours, and you are put in touch with them directly rather than through a chain.
Every itinerary is a starting point. Add days, drop sites, reorder — nothing is fixed until you say so.
Plan this trip
A real itinerary with prices, usually within 24 hours. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you say yes.
from US$840 / per person
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