7 Days Nile Cruise on Dahabya Sailing Boat

you will find a combination of luxury and privacy that recalls the golden age of tourism in Egypt at the beginning of the 20th century, updated with modern amenities for your comfort. Cruise the Nile in style in the way it has been done for millennia, by the power of the wind, on this beautiful river yacht and experience the hospitality of the more gracious era of tourism.

• Pick up service & return from Aswan or Luxor to your Dahabiya Nile Cruise
• Accommodation on first class Sonesta Dahabiya Nile Cruise for 07 nights including all taxes
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included on your cruise
• All sightseeing tours as mentioned in the itinerary
• Entrance fees to the mentioned historical places
• English speaking guide during your tours
• All service charges & taxes

• Day 1: Saturday

  Embarkation in Luxor for a relaxing week sailing the Nile on a Luxuriously appointed Dahabeya. After Lunch, Excursion to visit the magnificent temple complex of Amon-Ra at Karnak, with its vast hypostyle hall of 134 columns, followed by the imposing 18th Dynasty Luxor Temple. Overnight moored on the Nile Banks of Luxor

  Day 2: Sunday

  You will visit the West Bank for visits to the burial places of Pharaohs the Valley of the Kings – where Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. Continue to the adjacent  temple of queen Hatshepsut , the temple of Medinet Habu and the Colossi of Memnon

  Sail on the way to Esna (noon time); Overnight near by Esna

  Day 3: Monday

  Today will be an easy day; After Breakfast. Commence sailing .visit Elkab tombs . Overnight moored beside a Nile Island

  Day 4: Tuesday

  This morning you will sail to Edfu, Visit the wonderfully preserved Temple of Edfu. Overnight moored beside a Nile Island

  Day 5: Wednesday

  Today you will sail on the way to Kom Ombo.visit Silsila sandstone quarries. Visit kom Ombo to see the ptolemaic temple dedicated to the crocodile god sobek and the falcon-headed Horus, god of the morning sun. A leisurely day sailing to Aswan and moored nearby Aswan bridge

  Day 6: Thursday

  Today you will visit the Aswan High Dam (completed in 1971); the Old Dam (completed in 1902). You will also visit the Philae Temple, dedicated to the goddess Isis, a structure rescued from the rising waters of Lake Nasser at the time of the High Dam’s construction. Then you visit the unfinished obelisk.

  Day 7: Friday

  A magnificent excursion to visit the legendary temples of Ramses second of Abu Simbel

  Day 8: Saturday

  Breakfast aboard the Dehabeya

  Departure