Egypt Short break Cairo & Luxor tour package 5 days 4 nights

Our tour guide will pick you up to start your trip by visiting the Giza Pyramids. See the Great Pyramid of Cheops, one of the seven ancient wonders, then Chefren and Menkaure, the Valley Temple of the second pyramid, and the Great Sphinx statue, with a lion’s body and a human face, guarding the pyramids. After lunch, drive to the ruins of Memphis, the first capital of Egypt, to see the colossi of Ramses II and the beautiful Alabaster Sphinx. Finish your tour at Saqqara, the first great necropolis, which has the first pyramid built in the world, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. Go back to the hotel and stay overnight in Cairo.   

Our tour guide will pick you up to start your trip to visit the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), also known as the Giza Museum, a major archaeological museum located near the Pyramids of Giza. 
Overview: 
*Location: 
Approximately 2 kilometers from the Giza Pyramids, on the outskirts of Cairo

*Size: 
It is anticipated to be the largest archaeological museum in the world, with around 100,000 artifacts on display. Right now it holds the most important treasure found in the world: the Tutankhamun tomb, which Howard Carter found in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The treasure collection includes more than 3500 masterpieces of antiquities.  

 Then drive to the Citadel of Salah Eldin, which was built in 1173 to protect Cairo from the Crusaders and which houses the masterpiece Turkish Mohamed Ali Mosque. Then have your lunch. After that, visit Old Coptic Cairo: the Hanging Church, Abu Serga Church, which is known as the Holy Crypt Church, and the Ben Ezra Synagogue. Finish your tour in the heart of old Islamic Cairo at Khan El Khalili Bazaar.         
After finishing, drive to Cairo Airport to fly to Luxor and overnight. 

Early in the morning after breakfast, our tour guide will pick you up to start your tour at the Colossi of Memnon of Amenhotep III, which are located west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. 
Then drive to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, which was built for Queen Hatshepsut. It is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el-Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings. This mortuary temple is dedicated to Amun and Hatshepsut and is situated next to the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II.  
After you finish, you will be on a date with history by visiting the Valley of the Kings, a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to the 11th century BC, rock-cut tombs were 
excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom. The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, in the heart of the Theban Necropolis. It has 63 tombs and chambers. 
Have your lunch in a good-quality local restaurant. 
Next, drive to the Karnak Temple Complex, which comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons and other buildings near Luxor. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusert I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad, with the god Amun as its head. 
You will finish your tour by visiting the outstandingly beautiful Luxor Temple, which was constructed approximately in 1400 BC. It was dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship. At the rear of the temple are chapels built by Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty and by Alexander. Other parts of the temple were built by Tutankhamun and Ramesses II. During the Roman era, the temple and its surroundings were a legionary fortress and the home of the Roman government in the area. During the Roman period, a chapel inside Luxor Temple, originally dedicated to Mut, was transformed into a Tetrarchy cult chapel and later into a church. Then fly to Cairo and overnight. 
 

Transfer to Airport for final departure