Tour Details
| Duration |
11 Days / 10 Nights |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Cairo / Aswan / Luxor / Alexandria |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Cairo Airport |
Egypt in 11 Days From Cairo to Alexandria and Nile Cruise
This 11-day Egypt tour encompasses Cairo, the Nile from Aswan to Luxor, and Alexandria, covering four destinations across pharaonic, riverine, and Mediterranean Egypt in a single itinerary. It is the only 11-day Nile Cruise tour that combines pharaonic Egypt with Alexandria's Mediterranean coast, delivering four distinct experiences in one seamless journey: ancient Cairo, the Nile, Luxor's temples, and Egypt's cosmopolitan sea city. No other cruise-format 11-day package in this portfolio reaches Alexandria.
Beginning in Cairo, the journey starts with Egypt’s most iconic ancient landmarks, including the Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and the Grand Egyptian Museum on Day 2, followed by the Egyptian Museum, the Salah El-Din Citadel, the Mohamed Ali Mosque, Al Muizz Street, and the Khan El Khalili Bazaar on Day 3. A domestic flight to Aswan on Day 4 begins the Nile journey with Philae Temple and the High Dam before boarding the cruise. Day 5 visits Kom Ombo Temple before continuing to Edfu, while Day 6 explores Edfu Temple and sails onward to Luxor for an evening visit to Luxor Temple. Day 7 covers Karnak Temple, the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, and the Colossi of Memnon before a flight back to Cairo.
Why Book This Tour
- Combines Cairo, the Nile Cruise, Luxor, and Alexandria in one seamless itinerary
- The only 11-day Nile Cruise route in the portfolio that includes Alexandria’s Mediterranean coast
- Private Egyptologist guide throughout all sightseeing tours
- All transfers by modern private air-conditioned vehicles
- 3-night 5-star Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor
- 5 nights in Cairo and 1 night in Luxor at 5-star hotels
- 1 night accommodation at a hotel in Alexandria
- Domestic flights from Cairo to Aswan and Luxor to Cairo included
- All entrance fees are included across Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and Alexandria
- Flexible itinerary options and 24/7 travel support throughout the trip
Included
- Meet and assist with the Tripidays representative at the airport
- 5 nights’ accommodation at a hotel in Cairo
- 3 nights aboard a Nile Cruise
- 1 night accommodation at a hotel in Luxor
- 1 night accommodation at a hotel in Alexandria
- Domestic flight, Cairo to Aswan
- Domestic flight, Luxor to Cairo
- Private Egyptologist guide on all sightseeing days
- All transfers by modern private air-conditioned vehicle
- Entrance fees to all sites in Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and Alexandria
- Meals as specified in the itinerary
- One Bottled water throughout touring days
- All taxes and service charges
Excluded
- International flights to and from Egypt
- Egypt entry visa
- Travel insurance
- Personal expenses (souvenirs, extra meals, drinks)
- Tips for guides and drivers
- Optional excursion upgrades not listed in the itinerary
- Any meals not specified in the itinerary
Highlights
Giza Attractions
- Pyramids of Giza
- Sphinx
- Valley of the Khafre
- Grand Egyptian Museum
Cairo Attractions
- Egyptian Museum
- Citadel of Salah El-Din
- Mohamed Ali Mosque
- Al Muizz Street
- Khan El Khalili Bazaar
- Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque
- Mosque of Sultan Hassan
- Hanging Church
- Church of St. Sergius
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
Luxor Attractions
- Valley of The Kings
- Hatshepsut Temple
- Colossi of Memnon
- Karnak Temple
- Luxor Temple
Aswan Attractions
- High Dam
- Philae Temple
- Kom Ombo Temple
- Edfu Temple
Alexandria Attractions
- Pompey’s Pillar
- Qaitbay Citadel
- Alexandria Library
- Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
Itinerary

Your Tripidays representative meets you at Cairo International Airport and transfers you directly to your 5-star hotel. After settling in, the evening unfolds aboard a Nile Dinner Cruise, a gentle introduction to Egypt, where you dine on the river with live entertainment and Cairo's city lights drifting past.

Nile Dinner Cruise
In the evening, you'll enjoy a Nile dinner cruise with folkloric dancing, Tanoura performances, and the twinkling lights of Cairo’s skyline.

Meals
Dinner

After breakfast, your guide picks you up for the full Giza plateau — the largest concentration of ancient monuments on earth, all within one viewable horizon.

The Pyramids of Giza
You'll stand at the base of the Great Pyramid and look up at 2.3 million stone blocks stacked to a height that held the world record for over 3,800 years. Your guide positions you at the southwest corner where all three pyramids align at the angle most photographers miss.

The Sphinx
Walk to the viewing platform directly in front, and you'll see why the Sphinx faces due east: it was built to greet the rising sun, and at dawn, the alignment is still exact. The face is 4 metres tall, carved from a single limestone outcrop that the builders found already protruding from the plateau.

Valley of the Khafre Temples
Your guide leads you into the valley temple at the base of the second pyramid, where 23 massive granite pillars still stand in their original positions. This is where the pharaoh's body was prepared for burial, one of the best-preserved funerary temples on the plateau.

Grand Egyptian Museum
Continue your journey at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the world’s largest archaeological museum. Discover an extraordinary collection of ancient artefacts, including royal statues, monumental sculptures, and priceless treasures that bring Egypt’s civilisation to life.

Meals
Breakfast and Lunch

Your guide collects you after breakfast for a day that moves between three distinct layers of Cairo — pharaonic, Islamic, and Coptic — all within the city centre.

The Egyptian Museum
You'll walk through the original 1902 museum building before the collections moved to the GEM, where the royal mummy room still holds 22 pharaohs, including Ramesses II in a climate-controlled hall. Your guide points out which pieces were moved and which remain — context that floor signage doesn't provide.b

Salah El-Din Citadel
From the hilltop walls, you'll look out over the full Cairo skyline — minarets, the Nile, and the Giza plateau visible on a clear day from a single vantage point. The citadel was built in 1176 and served as the seat of Egyptian government for 700 years.

Mohamed Ali Mosque
Step inside the Ottoman alabaster mosque at the summit of the citadel, and your guide will explain why it was built to deliberately echo the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The courtyard clock tower was a gift from France, exchanged for the obelisk that now stands in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Al Muizz Street
Continue your cultural journey with a walk along El Muizz Street, Cairo’s oldest historic avenue. Lined with remarkable Islamic architecture, ancient mosques, and medieval buildings, this UNESCO World Heritage site offers a captivating glimpse into the city’s living history.

Khan El Khalili Bazaar
You'll emerge into the main bazaar where Cairo's gold, spice, and souvenir trade has operated from the same alleyways since 1382. The side lanes off the main market are where the working craftsmen still operate.

Meals
Breakfast and Lunch

A morning domestic flight from Cairo takes you to Aswan, where your guide and vehicle are waiting at the airport. Before boarding your Nile cruise, you'll explore two of the city's most significant landmarks.

Philae Temple
A short motorboat crossing brings you to the island of Agilkia, where the entire temple complex was dismantled block by block and rebuilt on higher ground to save it from the rising waters behind the High Dam. You'll walk through the hypostyle hall where ancient carvings and early Christian crosses occupy the same walls — two civilisations, same stone.

High Dam
Your guide explains how this engineering project transformed modern Egypt. Stretching across the Nile, the High Dam created Lake Nasser, one of the world's largest artificial lakes, while providing flood control, irrigation, and electricity to millions of Egyptians.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

The cruise sails north along the Nile before arriving at Kom Ombo, where the temple stands dramatically above the riverbank. After your visit, the vessel continues sailing toward Edfu.

Kom Ombo Temple
This 11-day Cairo Nile cruise itinerary positions Kom Ombo as a river approach — you see the temple from the water before you reach it, which is the original intention of its builders. It is the only temple in Egypt dedicated simultaneously to two gods: Sobek, the crocodile deity on the right half, and Haroeris, the falcon god on the left — split straight down the middle with duplicate halls.

Continue Sailing to Edfu
Return to the cruise and relax on deck as the vessel continues its journey through Upper Egypt. Watch rural villages, palm groves, and riverside farmland drift past as you sail toward Edfu.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

After breakfast, your guide takes you to one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt before the cruise continues north toward Luxor. In the evening, you'll visit Luxor Temple beautifully illuminated after sunset.

Edfu Temple
Dedicated to Horus, the falcon god, Edfu Temple remains remarkably intact, preserving towering pylons, courtyards, and sanctuaries beneath its original stone roof. Your guide explains the legends of Horus and Seth while leading you through inscriptions that remain sharply preserved after more than two millennia.

Sail to Luxor
Return to the cruise and enjoy a leisurely afternoon sailing toward Luxor, passing through one of the most scenic stretches of the Nile Valley.

Luxor Temple
As darkness falls, Luxor Temple takes on an entirely different atmosphere. Enter through the grand gateway flanked by colossal statues of Ramesses II and follow the illuminated avenue through courtyards and colonnades that have witnessed over 3,000 years of history.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

After breakfast and disembarkation, your guide introduces you to the highlights of ancient Thebes on both sides of the Nile before your evening flight back to Cairo.

Karnak Temple Complex
Begin at Karnak, the largest religious complex ever built in ancient Egypt. Walk through the Great Hypostyle Hall, where 134 towering sandstone columns create one of the most impressive architectural spaces in the ancient world. Generations of pharaohs expanded the complex over nearly two thousand years.

Valley of the Kings
You'll enter three tombs from the 63 discovered so far, chosen by your guide based on which are currently open and which have the least foot traffic that morning. The painted walls inside go 100 metres underground — colours that have survived 3,200 years in the sealed dark.

Hatshepsut Temple
Stand at the far end of the causeway and look back: the three collonaded terraces cut directly into the cliff face so that the building and the rock appear to be one structure. Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for 20 years as pharaoh; her successor tried to erase her image from every wall, but your guide will show you where the chiselling stopped.

Colossi of Memnon
You'll pass the two 18-metre seated statues that once guarded a mortuary temple, now completely gone. For centuries, travellers reported hearing the northern colossus emit a sound at dawn — the Greeks called it the voice of Memnon; archaeologists later explained it as thermal expansion cracking the stone.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

A short flight returns you to Cairo in the morning. Your guide meets you at the airport and takes you directly into the historic districts — no hotel stop in between.

Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque
You'll enter the oldest mosque in Cairo still standing in its original form, built in 879 AD and designed around an open courtyard large enough to hold the entire population of the city at the time. The minaret has an exterior spiral staircase — the only one of its kind in Egypt.

Mosque of Sultan Hassan
Your guide walks you into one of the largest mosques in the Islamic world, where the entrance corridor is intentionally narrow and then opens without warning into a vast courtyard to disorient and impress. It was completed in 1363 and used stone taken directly from the outer casing of the Giza Pyramids.

Hanging Church
Step inside one of the oldest churches in Egypt, built above the gatehouse of a Roman fortress so that the nave appears to hang over the street below. The wooden pulpit is inlaid with 13 columns representing Christ and the apostles — one column is slightly darker than the rest.

Church of St. Sergius
You'll descend into the crypt where, according to Coptic tradition, the Holy Family rested during their time in Egypt. The church dates to the 4th century, and the crypt floor sits below the current Nile water table.

Ben Ezra Synagogue
Your guide leads you into the oldest synagogue in Cairo, restored in the 19th century on a site where Jewish worship has continued for over 1,000 years. The discovery of the Cairo Geniza — 300,000 manuscript fragments hidden in this building rewrote what historians knew about medieval Jewish life.

Meals
Breakfast and Lunch

Your driver takes you from Cairo to Alexandria on the desert highway, approximately three hours, arriving in time for a full day in Egypt's second city.

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
You'll descend three levels into the largest Roman burial site in Egypt, carved into bedrock in the 2nd century AD and only rediscovered in 1900 when a donkey fell through the surface. The burial chambers directly combine Egyptian, Greek, and Roman imagery — a single carving will show a pharaonic figure in a toga flanked by Greek columns.

Pompey's Pillar
Stand beside the 27-metre red granite column — the tallest ancient monolith still standing outside of Rome — and your guide will explain why it has nothing to do with the Roman general Pompey. It was erected in 297 AD to honour Emperor Diocletian, and the misnaming stuck for centuries.

Qaitbay Citadel
You'll walk into the 15th-century fortress built directly on the foundations of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria — one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The fort used stones from the lighthouse itself, and on the lower walls, you can still identify column drums from the original structure.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Your guide brings you to the modern successor of the ancient Library of Alexandria, designed to tilt toward the sea like a rising sun. The reading room holds space for 2,000 readers, and the outer wall is carved with 120 scripts from every writing system ever known, a deliberate echo of the original library's ambition.

Meals
Breakfast and Lunch

After breakfast, your guide leads you through a different side of Alexandria, one shaped by royal palaces, Mediterranean views, and elegant European-style architecture, before returning to Cairo in the evening.

Montaza Palace Gardens
You'll walk through the royal gardens that once belonged to Egypt’s last ruling dynasty, spread across more than 150 acres along the Mediterranean coast. Your guide points out the blend of Ottoman and Florentine architectural styles in the palace exterior, designed as a summer retreat for King Farouk.

Royal Jewellery Museum
You'll explore one of Alexandria’s most elegant royal mansions, now transformed into a museum displaying crowns, diamonds, gold ceremonial pieces, and rare jewellery from Egypt’s Muhammad Ali dynasty, all preserved within richly decorated halls and stained-glass interiors.

Meals
Breakfast and Lunch

After breakfast, your Tripidays representative arranges your transfer to Cairo International Airport for your international departure flight. Depending on your flight time, you may enjoy a relaxed morning at the hotel before leaving for the airport.

Meals
Breakfast
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Frequently Asked Questions
The tour includes 6 nights in a 5-star Cairo hotel, 3 nights on a 5-star Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor, 1 night in a 5-star Luxor hotel, two domestic flights, a private Egyptologist guide, all entrance fees across Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and Alexandria, and meals as specified in the itinerary.
It is the only 11-day Nile Cruise tour that combines pharaonic Egypt with Alexandria's Mediterranean coast; no other cruise-format itinerary in this duration reaches all four destinations. If you want the same cruise route paired with Abu Simbel as a guaranteed included day instead of the Mediterranean coast, see the classic fly-and-cruise Egypt with Abu Simbel.
Alexandria operates on a completely different register from the pharaonic sites — it is a Mediterranean port city with Greek, Roman, and Coptic layers that most Egypt tours skip entirely. A full dedicated day covers the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Qaitbay Citadel, Pompey's Pillar, and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Travellers who prefer a fully escorted premium format can also consider an upgrade to fully escorted Egypt travel.
The cruise runs from Aswan to Luxor over three nights, visiting Kom Ombo Temple and Edfu Temple en route before docking at Luxor for the East and West Bank temple days. The vessel is 5-star rated with full board.
This tour covers Cairo, Giza, Aswan, Kom Ombo, Edfu, Luxor, and Alexandria, including a Nile Cruise and Egypt’s most iconic ancient and cultural sites.
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