Blue Shadow I Nile Cruise – 5 Days Luxor to Aswan

On board the Nile Cruise, enjoy your breakfast. With your Egyptologist, start your day tour to Thebes Necropolis.

Explore the Valley of the Kings for 2 hours.

It is a burial place of the most important kings of the New Kingdom (18th–20th Dynasties); you can visit up to 3 of the best tombs on the main entrance ticket, teeming with spells, scenes, and guides from sacred texts: “Book of the Dead, Book of Gates, Book of Caverns, and Amduat (Book of the Hidden Chamber).”

The other tombs are available with extra tickets, not included in this tour charge.

Go ahead to Hatshepsut Temple for a 1-hour visit.

Built by Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s most powerful female pharaoh, during the 18th Dynasty (~1479–1458 BCE), blending royal power with divine worship, known as “Djeser-Djeseru” (Holy of Holies) in ancient times.

Enjoy around 30 minutes as a stop at the Colossi of Memnon.

Two giant statues represent Pharaoh Amenhotep III, seated on a throne with hands on knees. Each statue stands about 18 meters (60 feet) tall, made from blocks of quartzite sandstone, built around 1350 BCE, during the 18th Dynasty.

Return back to the Nile Cruise for Lunch and sail to Edfu.

Have a relaxing sailing time  crossing through Esna Lock and docking in Edfu.

Relish your restful night with dinner.

Meals Included:

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Enjoy your breakfast on the cruise deck, and experience riding a horse carriage to Edfu Temple.

Edfu Temple Visit for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Edfu Temple is like stepping into a living ancient temple—walls, ceilings, and sacred chambers are all intact, dedicated to Horus, the falcon-headed god of protection, kingship, and vengeance, and was a center for the annual Festival of Victory, celebrating Horus’s mythical battle with Seth.

Arrive back at the ship by horse carriage.

The Nile Cruise sails to Kom Ombo.

Enjoy a restful sailing to Kom Ombo while having your lunch with fresh-cooked ingredients.

Have a relaxing night on the Nile Cruise board, docking on Kom Ombo.

Meals Included:

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

It is a double-faced temple with a rare design, built with two symmetrical halves, each side dedicated to a different deity: Horus the Elder (Haroeris)—the falcon-headed sky god—and Sobek—the crocodile god of fertility and the Nile. Each god had separate halls, sanctuaries, and chapels.

Return back to the Nile Cruise and sail relaxingly to Aswan.

Relish your lunch on the cruise board and enjoy a relaxing sailing to Aswan.

The Nile Cruise docks on Aswan amid amazing nature and culture.

Meals Included:

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Relish your breakfast on the cruise board, and check out.

Visit Aswan High Dam for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The Aswan High Dam, built across the Nile River at Aswan, extending 3.6 km (2.2 miles) in length and 111 meters in height, Contains about 43 million cubic meters of material—an artificial mountain of rock and earth—to be the rarest and biggest Dam in this kind globally and create the largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser.

Proceed to Phila Port to sail to Philae Temple for a 1 hour and 30 minute visit.

This temple that is called the Pearl of the Nile is accessible by boat—a peaceful ride across the Nile or Lake Nasser, arriving at the home of Isis, First Pylon (Entrance Gate), Inner Temple Courtyard, Temple of Hathor, and Trajan’s Kiosk—called Pharaoh’s Bed.

Sail back to Philae Port, and go ahead to the last stop.

Unfinished Obelisk visit for around 1 hour and 30 minutes.

If completed, it would have been the tallest obelisk ever constructed, at about 42 meters (137 feet) in height and weighing approximately 1,200 tons, still attached to bedrock, and the pharaonic board on the obelisk board, revealing an ancient Egyptian architectural marvel.

Lunchtime for around 1 hour and 30 minutes;

Relish your lunch meal rich with amazing local flavors.

At the drop-off point you select in Aswan, we accompany you.

Meals Included:

Breakfast, and lunch.