The Nile Explorer - Chase Travel

First Class or Deluxe Hotels. Nile Cruise, all outside cabins. All meals on cruise, breakfast & dinner daily at hotel. All tours and excurisions as per itinerary with the services of professional, licensed English speaking tour guides. All entrance fees to museums and sites. All transfers, airport assistance and porterage. Flight bag with the tour documents. Service of our professional local representatives. Camel ride by the Pyramide, sailing in Aswan and carriage ride in Luxor.

• 1st Day - Departure:
Departure from USA to Egypt.

• 2nd Day - Arrival:
Arrival at Cairo Airport, assistance and transfer to hotel

• 3rd Day - Egypttian Museum Great Pyramids/Aswan (Sleeper train):
Drive to the Egyptian Museum to see the collection of pharonic antiquities dating back 5000 years including the treasures of Tutankamen. Proceed to the plateau of Giza to see the Great Pyramid of Cheops (2900 BC) and the Sphinx carved out of a single block of limestone. Camel riding is included. This evening you will be transfered to the train station for your overnight train to Aswan.

• 4th Day - Aswan/Kom Ombo/Cruise:
Arrival in Aswan and transfer to your Nile Cruiser. After embarkation you will sail on feluccas to

Elephantine Island and then on to the beautifull Kitchener Island, the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan, the High Dam. We will also tour the Old Dam and the granite quarries, source of so many of Egypt's great monuments. On the island between the Old and High Dams is the Temple of Philae (4th Century BC). Later today, sail for Kom Ombo where the ship docks for the night.

• 5th Day - Kom Ombo/Edfu/Cruise:
This morning you will tour the Temple of Kombo Ombo. Continue sailing to Edfu where you will see Edfu Temple containing one of the finest representatios of Ptolemaic art begun in 237 BC. Overnight in Edfu.

• 6th Day - Esna/Luxor/Cruise:
This mornings sail to Esna where you will see the Temple of Esna begun in 180 BC. Continue sailing to Luxor. This afternoon we will visit the temples of Luxor and Karnak. The magesty of these two temples is unbelievable as is their beauty. Overnight in Luxor.

• 7th Day - Luxor/Cairo:
Visit Thebes better know sites such as the Valley of Kings and Queens and tomb of Tutankhamen, the temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon. Later today transfer to the airport for your flight to Cairo where you will met and escorted to your hotel

• 8th Day - Departure:
Say goodbye to Egyp as you are driven to the airport for your departing flight. You will be assisted through customs.