Nile Cruise Trip Package 5 Days from Sharm El Sheikh

After breakfast on the Nile, you will begin your travels to visit the Valley of the Kings. This burial site was carefully chosen for the kings, as it is located on the west bank of the Nile, in the belief that the sun god descended (died) on the western horizon to be reborn and rejuvenated on the eastern horizon, and for this reason, the west was associated with funerary concepts and most ancient Egyptian tombs were generally located on the west bank of the Nile for this reason.

The site of the Bahari Monastery was sacred because it was associated with the goddess Hathor, who patronized the kings of Egypt, foremost among them the god Horus, the first and mythical ruler of Egypt, and it was believed that the personification of this goddess in the same hills whose shadow falls on the temple of Hatshepsut.

The two statues were in front of the entrance to an ancient funerary temple in memory of King Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty, who ruled between 1417 and 1379 BC.

All that remains of the funerary temple are the two giant statues, up to 20 meters high, as the temple was used as a quarry from which stones were removed during the 19th Dynasty.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After your breakfast, you will be transferred by motorboat to Kom Ombo, the legendary King Amboa, which is called the city of Kom Omboa today, and the name of the city consists of two syllables, the first syllable is Kom and is known to mean what rises on the ground from the flat and the second syllable Amboa, which is the name of the king or ruler of the valley at that time, and Amboa is a governor of one of the governors of the pharaohs.

He has a famous story written on the walls of the Kom Amboa temple, the only temple in that city, which dates back to the era of the Pharaonic dynasty at that time, and the story of Governor Amboa is that he had an only son who had no one else and was blessed one day by a priest who told him a prophecy about his son that he would die in his youth, and the boy grew up with his father.

Then you will visit Edfu. Edfu was made under the protection of the falcon god Horus, king of the city that was also called Hadeeth. Researchers have realized that this god originated in this region and was equated with Apollo by the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt after Alexander.

Excavations have revealed the remains of a wall that protected the city from raids at the dawn of its history. Edfu remained important for centuries as one of the most important cities in Upper Egypt and came into conflict with neighboring city-states such as Thebes and Koptos (Kaft) in the first transitional period after the collapse of the Old Kingdom. It retained its importance well into the New Kingdom.

Overnight at Aswan.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You'll start by visiting the High Dam, the first water storage project in the Nile Basin, which employed 34,000 people and took 10 years to build (1960-1970) at a cost of about $1bn. It is second only to the Suez Canal in terms of importance, and the International Commission on Dams and Major Corporations ranked it as one of the top projects of the 20th century.

The ancient Egyptians called these massive stone blocks ‘tekino’, which means ‘penetrating the sky’, and as many already know, ancient Egyptian obelisks were four-sided tapered rectangular columns with a pyramid at the top, these columns were placed on pedestals and were usually built to commemorate an individual or an event, or to honor the gods.

At the end of your tour, you will visit the Temple of Philae and the Temple of Isis, next to which is a temple dedicated to Hathor, built by Ptolemy IV Philomator, 180-145 BC, and Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, 30 BC-14 AD. Trajan's palace 98-117 AD in front of the Temple of Philae still stands, although its roof is no longer extant, and the regular arrangement of its magnificent columns has attracted the attention of travelers.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You will be taken to Luxor Airport to catch your flight to Sharm El Sheikh following breakfast. Your driver will be ready to take you to your accommodation in Sharm El Sheikh after you have arrived safely.

We promise you a comfortable and safe trip with Cairo Top Tours.

Meals: Breakfast