M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise is 5 stars deluxe floating hotel, sails between Luxor and Aswan and has been inaugurated in February 2007 M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise gives you elegance and class, a touch of the history through its interior with all the comfort and technical facilities of a modern hotel, to serve you at European 5 star level. M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise is decorated in the French empire style simplified to satisfy contemporary taste. M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise has 69 deluxe double cabins and 2 suites, restaurant, panorama lounge, bars, silent area adjacent to lounge with panorama terrace, sun deck with pool, Jacuzzi and bar, business center with inter accommodation for both tourists and incentive business tours just enjoy the exquisite cuisine and the sun on the sun deck where the most fashionable cocktails and drinks are served. You can burn off those calories in the air-conditioned gym with direct access to the pool on the sun deck. Step back several millennia into the history by visiting the heritage of the great Egyptian pharaohs.
Upon arrival Aswan airport be meet & assist and transfer to the Nile Cruise embarkation. Lunch will be on board. At leisure till after noon then will sail the traditional Nile felucca along the shores of elephantine island and agha khan mausoleum (subject to weather conditions). Tea & coffee will be served in the early evening dinner and overnight will be on M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise board
Breakfast will be on board. Today we will visit Aswan High Dam which was built in 1960. It contains 18 times the material used in great pyramids of Cheops. The dam 11,811 feet long, 3215 feet thick at the base and 363 feet tall. Today it provides irrigation and electricity for the whole of Egypt proceed to the Unfinished Obelisk much of the red granite used for the ancient temples and colossi came from quarries in the Aswan area. Around these quarries are many inscriptions, many of which describing successful quarrying projects. The Unfinished Obelisk located in the northern quarry still lies where a crack was discovered as it was being hewn form the rock. It could have weight over 2.3 million pound and have been the world largest piece of stone ever handled, but a crack occurred, which caused it to be abandoned. Then we will visit the beautiful Philae temple rising form the water of the Nile. Lunch will be on M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise board while we sail to kom ombo well visit kom ombo temple (the Ptolemaic temple of sobek & heronries),located in the town of kom ombo, about 28 miles north of Aswan the temple dates back to Ptolemy’s, built on a high dune overlooking the Nile. The actual temple was started by Ptolemy VI philometor in the early second century BC.ptolemy Xlll built the outer and inner hypostyle halls. The outer enclosure well and part of the court was built by Augustus sometime after 30 BC. There are also tombs form the old kingdom in the vicinity of kom ombo village. Return back to Cruise. Relax on the deck and watch primitive village on the banks of the river glide. Tea & coffee will be served in the early evening while sailing to edfu; we will enjoy a sumptuous oriental dinner and dance all night away to Egyptian galabeya party. Overnight will be on board.
Breakfast will be on board. This morning, we visit edfu’s beautiful preserved edfu temple the temple is also known as hour’s temple, the falcon edfu temple (hour’s temple) god, built in (237BC) during the reigns of six Ptolemy’s edfu temple is considered the best-preserved temple in ancient Egypt and the second largest after Karnack Temple lunch will be on board. Sailing to Luxor through esna lock. Tea & coffee will be served in the early evening. Dinner and Overnight will be on board
Breakfast will be on board before Disembarkation. And then, we cross to the west bank of the Nile to visit the Colossi of Mammon, the two massive stone statues of pharaoh Amenhotep iii. For the past 3400 years (since 1350BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the river Nile form the modern city of Luxor and will go to the Valley of the Kings and Queens to visit Hatshepsut temple, located beneath the cliffs at deir el bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the valley of the kings in Egypt. The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god amon-ra and is located next to the mortuary temple of mentuhotep ii, which served both as an inspiration, and later, a quarry. Lunch will be at local restaurant. And then we will tour the awe inspiring temple of Luxor, was founded in 1400 BCE and built with sandstone form the Gebel el-silsila area, which is located in south- western Egypt. And then we will continue to visit Karnack Temple which comprises a vast mix of decayed Temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings in the reign of sesostris I in the middle kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period
upon arrival Luxor airport be meeting & assist and transfer to the Nile Cruise embarkation. Lunch will be on board. And then we will tour the awe inspiring temple of Luxor was founded in 1400 BCE and built with sandstone form the Gebel el-silsila area, which is located in south- western Egypt. And then we will continue to visit Karnack Temple which comprises a vast mix of decayed Temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings. Building at the complex began in the middle kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period. And then, we will back to Cruise. Dinner and Overnight will be on Cruise board.
Breakfast, we cross to the west bank of the Nile to visit the Colossi of Mammon, the two massive stone statues of pharaoh Amenhotep iii. For the past 3400 years (since 1350BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the river Nile form the modern city of Luxor and will go to the Valley of the Kings and Queens to visit Hatshepsut temple, located beneath the cliffs at deir el bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the valley of the kings in Egypt. The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god amon-ra and is located next to the mortuary temple of mentuhotep ii, which served both as an inspiration, and later, a quarry. Lunch will be on board while sailing to edfu through lock. Dinner and overnight will be on board
After Breakfast we visit edfu’s beautiful preserved temple of hours, the best preserved of all large Egyptian temples and built by the Ptolemy’s Lunch will be on board while sailing to kom ombo.in kom ombo, we will visit the temple of sobek the crocodile god, conveniently situated on the river bank. Continue to Aswan we enjoy sumptuous oriental dinner and dance all night away to the Egyptian galabeya party. Overnight will be on board
After Breakfast, we view the Aswan High Dam, an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, and then we will visit the Unfinished Obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan. Archaeologists are unsure which pharaoh created this structure.it is nearly on third larger than any ancient Egypt Obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately137feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,2oo tons (1,066,621 kilograms). Lunch will be on M/S Nile Dolphin Nile Cruise board. Pm, we will sail by traditional Nile felucca along the shores of elephantine island and Philae temple at Philae island. Philae Island was a rocky Island in the middle of the river Nile, south of Aswan. It was called in hieroglyphic ‘Apo which means lvory.it was also known by the Greek ‘elephantine’, most probably because it was an important center of trade, especially for ivory. The ancient Egyptian built a beautiful and magnificent temple on this island for the goddess Isis, but the temple became submerged after the first Aswan dam was built in 1906, and it was not until the seventies that many nations attempted to save the temple. All these countries, together with UNESCO, selected a suitable place, but they had to wait until the completion of the high dam, in 1971 which would stabilize the level of the water around their chosen island. Dinner and overnight will be on board.
Check out after breakfast. Then our representative will accompany you to Aswan airport – station to take your flight to Cairo.
04 or 03 nights’ accommodation on board the Nile cruises based on FB basis.
Meet and assist service upon arrival &departure
Assistance of our personnel during your stay and excursions
All transfers by a modern air-conditioned deluxe vehicle private
All Nile Cruise excursions as mentioned in the itinerary private.
Entrance fees to all sights in and between Luxor and Aswan
Private Egyptologist English-speaking tour guide
Complementary 01 bottle of water per day per person
All transfers by A-C vehicles with qualified driver
All service charges and taxes
Any Extra meals and beverages
All personal expenses like laundry etc
Tipping to Guide, Driver, etc
Any Optional tours may require
Prices are quoted in US Dollars per person per trip except during Christmas, New Year & Easter holidays
0 – 01.99 Free of Charge
2 – 05.99 pay 25% of tour price
6 – 11.99 pay 50% of tour price.
12+ pay full tour price as per adult person
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