6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package

Your 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package begins in Cairo, then continues through Upper Egypt to Luxor, Aswan, and the legendary temples of Abu Simbel.

From the Airport to Your Hotel

After completing passport procedures and collecting your luggage, meet the tour representative assigned to your arrival.

Your final documents provide the terminal number, meeting instructions, representative details, and local contact number. This is especially useful at Cairo International Airport, where international flights can arrive through different terminals.

The representative confirms your reservation and takes you directly to your private driver.

Continue to the hotel in an air-conditioned vehicle. The transfer is arranged around your actual arrival rather than a fixed departure time, since baggage collection and Cairo traffic can affect the journey.

Time to Settle In

Check in at your five-star Cairo hotel and take some time to rest after the flight.

If you reach the hotel before your room is available, reception can usually keep your luggage until check-in. Early access remains subject to hotel availability and any applicable charge.

Travelers arriving with additional free time can also explore available Cairo Day Tours before the journey continues to Upper Egypt.

Your First Night on the Nile

Your driver collects you from the hotel later in the day for an evening dinner cruise.

Settle in for dinner as the boat moves along the Nile and Cairo lights appear along the riverbanks. It gives you an easy first evening after the international journey without adding a full sightseeing schedule to your arrival day.

Entertainment varies by sailing and may include Tanoura, live music, or other traditional performances. The cruise company confirms the vessel, sailing time, menu, and entertainment program according to that evening’s schedule.

After the cruise, your driver takes you back to the hotel for the night.

Day 2 of the 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package begins with your Private Day Trip of Giza. Museum hours, traffic, and the Luxor flight set the order.

When the flight time allows, sightseeing begins at Giza before the heat and visitor numbers rise.

Giza Pyramids Complex

Explore the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.

During the visit, your Egyptologist will show how each pyramid formed part of a larger royal complex. These sites also included temples, causeways, smaller pyramids, tombs, and ceremonial areas.

The plateau has sand, slopes, stone paths, and limited shade. Wear stable shoes and carry sun protection.

Great Pyramid of Khufu

Stand beside the largest pyramid at Giza and the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.

The standard ticket covers the exterior area. Entry inside the pyramid requires a separate ticket and depends on daily availability.

Before entering, read Can You Go Inside the Great Pyramids for details about steep passages, narrow corridors, limited airflow, and possible mobility or breathing concerns.

Request an interior ticket before confirmation when you wish to enter.

Great Sphinx and Valley Temple

Continue to the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple of Khafre.

Rather than treating them as separate stops, the Egyptologist will explain how both monuments fit into the wider pyramid complex.

Inside the Valley Temple, examine the large limestone and granite blocks used in its walls.

To reduce direct sun, heavy traffic, and long walks, the guide and driver may adjust the order within the Giza Plateau.

Grand Egyptian Museum

Begin your Grand Egyptian Museum Tour near the Giza Plateau. The route may include open galleries, royal statues, key collections, and public spaces available on your travel date.

To keep the visit focused, the Egyptologist selects the route according to:

• Open galleries
• Your interests
• Visitor numbers
• Walking pace
• Lunch timing
• Flight departure time

Museum access may change from one day to another. Travelers who prefer a longer visit should request it before booking so the flight and remaining program can be reviewed.

Lunch

Enjoy lunch at a selected restaurant in Cairo or Giza.

Its location is chosen to fit the route and reduce extra driving before the Egyptian Museum and airport transfer.

Share any food allergy, vegetarian request, or child meal need before booking. Drinks are excluded unless your confirmed plan states otherwise.

Egyptian Museum

Continue to The Egyptian Museum in Cairo when the flight schedule leaves enough time.

See selected statues, coffins, jewelry, papyrus, funerary objects, and pieces from several periods of Egyptian history.

Instead of trying to cover every room, the guide will focus on the leading collections. The visit length is also set to protect the airport connection.

Flight to Luxor

Travel to Cairo International Airport after sightseeing.

Allow time for traffic, check-in, baggage, security, and terminal access.

Keep passports, medicine, money, phones, chargers, and documents in hand luggage.

Fly to Luxor, meet the local representative after landing, and transfer to your hotel.

Travelers comparing this route with a longer stay can read How Many Days in Luxor before finalizing their plans.

Have breakfast and meet your private Egyptologist.

The 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package continues with your Luxor West Bank Tour before Karnak Temple on the East Bank.

Visiting the desert sites first helps reduce exposure to the strongest afternoon heat.

Valley of the Kings

Enter the Valley of the Kings and visit selected tombs covered by the standard ticket.

Your guide selects The Best Tombs to Visit in the Valley of the Kings from those open that day, based on:

• Tombs open that day
• Historical value
• Condition of the wall decoration
• Queue length
• Number of steps
• Corridor difficulty
• Your interests
• Your walking ability

Special tombs, including Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramesses V and VI, require separate tickets.

Some tombs have steep stairs, narrow passages, and warm interiors. Mention any mobility, breathing, or claustrophobia concerns before entering.

Hatshepsut Temple

Continue to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir El-Bahari.

Walk through the terraces, ramps, and colonnades below the limestone cliffs.

The wall scenes show religious ceremonies, royal events, offerings, and Hatshepsut’s expedition to the Land of Punt.

As you explore, the Egyptologist will explain how the setting, design, and decoration supported Hatshepsut’s authority as pharaoh.

Colossi of Memnon

Stop beside the two seated statues known as the Colossi of Memnon.

The Colossi of Memnon originally guarded the entrance to Amenhotep III’s vast memorial temple. Although much of the complex is now lost, archaeological excavations continue to reveal more of the ancient site.

Nile Motorboat Crossing

Take a motorboat from the West Bank to the East Bank.

The crossing reduces part of the road journey and provides open views of the Nile.

If weather, river conditions, or boat operations prevent the crossing, the driver will use the bridge instead.

Lunch

Enjoy lunch at a selected restaurant in Luxor.

This stop gives you time to rest before Karnak, the largest walking area of the day.

Karnak Temple

Continue your Tour of the East Bank in Luxor at Karnak Temple.

Walk through pylons, courts, chapels, sacred areas, and processional routes.

Inside the Great Hypostyle Hall, stand among 134 stone columns.

Because Karnak covers a wide area, the Egyptologist will follow a direct route through the main sections without rushing the visit or adding unnecessary walking.

Return to your hotel afterward.

Day 4 of the 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package begins with a first-class train journey to Aswan.

Before leaving the hotel, the team will check the train time. At the station, your representative will confirm the train number, carriage, seat, and meeting arrangements.

First-Class Train to Aswan

Board the first-class train from Luxor to Aswan.

Your main luggage travels with you. Keep your passport, money, medicine, phone, electronics, and travel papers in a smaller bag beside you.

Train times can change. Throughout the journey, the Luxor and Aswan teams stay in contact and move the station pickup if the train is late.

A delay may lead to:

• A later lunch
• A new visit order
• Starting with the site that closes first
• A hotel transfer before sightseeing

If a long delay affects opening hours, the operations team will explain the available plan before making any change.

Arrival in Aswan

Meet your local representative or Egyptologist at Aswan Railway Station.

Your Philae Temple, High Dam and Obelisk Private Tour follows the actual arrival time, site hours, traffic, heat, and hotel location.

Aswan High Dam

Visit the Aswan High Dam and look across the reservoir.

During the stop, your guide will explain its role in flood control, irrigation, water storage, electricity production, and the creation of Lake Nasser.

You will also hear how the dam project led to an international effort to protect temples from rising water.

Unfinished Obelisk

Continue to the ancient granite quarries.

The Unfinished Obelisk remains attached to the bedrock because cracks appeared before workers completed it.

Marks in the quarry show how ancient workers cut and shaped large stone monuments.

The ground is rough and open to the sun. Stable shoes provide better support.

Lunch

Enjoy lunch at a selected restaurant in Aswan.

The meal time may change if the train arrives later than planned.

Philae Temple

Visiting Philae Temple in Aswan begins with a motorboat ride to Agilkia Island, where you explore this major center for the worship of Isis.

Walk through its pylons, courts, colonnades, decorated rooms, and riverside areas.

The original temple site faced rising water. As a result, the monuments were dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground during the project to save Nubian temples.

Return to the marina by boat and transfer to your hotel.

Before the day ends, the representative will confirm the Abu Simbel pickup, breakfast box, vehicle details, road plan, and next day’s flight.

Day 5 of the 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package reaches Abu Simbel. Collect your breakfast box, then meet your Egyptologist and driver for the Private Tour to Abu Simbel from Aswan by Car.

This Egypt tour package including Abu Simbel allows time for the desert road, a comfort stop, the temple visit, return drive, and airport checks. Pickup follows the confirmed Aswan-to-Cairo flight.

Private Transfer to Abu Simbel

Travel about 300 kilometers through the Western Desert in a private air-conditioned vehicle.

Long parts of the road have limited services. Carry medicine, water, tissues, sun protection, phone chargers, and key documents.

A short comfort stop is usually planned at an established roadside point. Its location depends on road conditions, available facilities, and the time needed to return to the airport.

Great Temple of Ramesses II

Facts about Abu Simbel Temple come alive in its colossal façade and decorated halls, which show Ramesses II’s military victories, royal authority, religious role, and divine links.

The Egyptologist will also explain the temple’s solar alignment. Sunlight reaches part of the inner sanctuary on two days each year.

Crowds increase around those dates, so the tour may leave Aswan earlier.

Temple of Queen Nefertari

Visit the nearby temple dedicated to Queen Nefertari and the goddess Hathor.

Nefertari appears almost as tall as Ramesses II on the façade, which is unusual among ancient Egyptian royal temples.

Painted scenes inside show the queen taking part in religious ceremonies and presenting offerings.

Learn more about: Queen Nefertari

The Rescue of Abu Simbel

Learn how an international project saved both temples from the rising waters of Lake Nasser.

Workers cut the monuments into large blocks, moved them to higher ground, and rebuilt them in a setting designed to resemble the original site.

Return to Aswan

Drive back to Aswan after the visit.

Lunch depends on the flight time. The operations team may arrange a restaurant meal or a packed lunch if a stop would risk the airport transfer.

The final meal plan will appear in your confirmed itinerary.

Flight to Cairo

Transfer to Aswan Airport and fly to Cairo.

Meet the local representative after landing and travel to your hotel in a private vehicle.

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before check-out.

Hotel Check-Out

Check out at the scheduled time.

Before you go, review the room, bathroom, wardrobe, and safe. Make sure you have your passport, medicine, chargers, valuables, and luggage.

Guests with early flights can request a breakfast box in advance.

Private Airport Transfer

Meet the representative in the hotel lobby.

The 6 Days Cairo, Luxor, Aswan & Abu Simbel Package concludes with a private transfer to Cairo International Airport.

Pickup time follows the airline’s check-in rules, departure terminal, baggage requirements, expected traffic, and international flight schedule.

Your tour ends at the airport.