The Best of Egypt Tour: Cairo, Nile Cruise & Sharm El Sheikh

Day by day

The plan as the operator publishes it. Exact timings are confirmed with your booking.

1. Day 1 Welcome to Land of Pharaohs

   Arrive at Cairo International Airport, where your Memphis Tours representative meets you inside the terminal, assists with passport control and baggage, and escorts you to your private air-conditioned vehicle.
2. Day 2 Giza Pyramids & the Grand Egyptian Museum

   After breakfast, meet your private Egyptologist and travel to the Giza Plateau. Explore the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, with time at the panoramic viewpoint for photographs across all three pyramids.
3. Day 3 National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Old Cairo & the Citadel

   A second full Cairo day, covering the city beyond the Pyramids. Begin at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, where the royal mummies rest in a purpose-built hall — the pharaohs themselves, having seen their tombs and their treasure.
4. Day 4 Fly to Luxor, Embarkation & East Bank Temples

   An early transfer to Cairo Airport for your included flight to Luxor. You are met on arrival and taken to your Nile cruise vessel, where you settle in and take lunch on board.
5. Day 5 Luxor West Bank & Sailing to Edfu

   After breakfast, cross to the West Bank to descend into the painted burial chambers of the Valley of the Kings, the royal cemetery holding 62 known tombs beneath the Theban hills.
6. Day 6 Edfu, Kom Ombo & Sailing to Aswan

   After breakfast, a horse-drawn carriage carries you from the mooring to the Temple of Horus at Edfu — the most completely preserved temple in Egypt, its roof and sanctuary still intact after centuries buried in sand.
7. Day 7 Aswan: Unfinished Obelisk & Philae Temple

   After breakfast, visit the Unfinished Obelisk lying in its ancient granite quarry, still attached to the bedrock that cracked beneath it — the clearest surviving evidence of how Egypt's monoliths were cut.
8. Day 8 Fly to Sharm El Sheikh

   A final breakfast aboard before disembarking at Aswan and transferring to the airport for your flight to Sharm El Sheikh, where the Nile Valley gives way to the Red Sea and Sinai. You are met on arrival and transferred to your resort.
9. Day 9 Sharm El Sheikh: The Red Sea

   A free day on the Red Sea, or a full day at Ras Mohamed National Park, where the reef drops away into open water at the tip of the Sinai peninsula and the coral is among the best preserved in the world.
10. Day 10 Sharm El Sheikh: Sinai & the Colored Canyon

    Another free day, or a journey inland into Sinai to the Colored Canyon — a narrow sandstone gorge whose walls rise as high as 40 meters, streaked yellow, purple, red and gold where mineral deposits have stained the rock.
11. Day 11 Return to Cairo

    Enjoy a final Red Sea breakfast and a relaxed morning before your transfer to Sharm El Sheikh Airport. Fly back to Cairo, where you are met and transferred privately to your hotel for the last night — placed deliberately so your international departure isn't rushed off the back of a domestic…
12. Day 12 Departure from Cairo

    Enjoy breakfast and a relaxed final morning. Depending on your flight time, luggage storage can be arranged at the hotel should you wish to spend a few last hours in the city.