Day 1: Arrival Cairo
Santa Maria Tours representative meets you upon your arrival in Cairo airport, who will handle all your procedures through passport control, luggage area and customs formalities, and transferred to your hotel in Cairo. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 2: Cairo
We will start the day by paying our respects to the Sphinx, the great lion sentinel with its craved body of a lion and the headdress of the Pharaohs. We then visit the 3 Pyramids of Giza Plateau of Kings Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos, proceed to Sakkara visit the step Pyramids of Zoser. Back to hotel. Overnight in Cairo. (Breakfast)

Day 3: Cairo / Bahariya Oasis
After the breakfast, leave cairo behind. We will drive 370 Km on road to Bahariya Oasis, upon arrival, we check in our hotel. Lunch.  In the afternoon visit the Temple of Alexander the Great, the Golden Valley of Mummies and the English House. Dinner and overnight in the hotel in Bahariya. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Day 4: Bahariya Oasis / White desert/ Black desert / Crystal Mountain
After breakfast, we head towards the White desert by 4x4 jeep visit the Temple of Ain el-Maftella, Tomp of Bannantiu, after visit the Black Desert and Sand Dunes area, Lunch. On the route to Farafra we visit the crystal mountain and the area of the wonders with the desert roses. Then we will visit El Akabat. Drive back to the White Desert. We will explore the formations that resemble the surface of a different planet. In the late afternoon, we prepare our campsite; have a barbeque dinner and relax while looking at the stars, overnight camping. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Day 5: Bahariya Oasis / Cairo
After breakfast, we start heading back to Cairo. Arrive Cairo, check-in our hotel and overnight. (Breakfast)

Day 6: Cairo/ Aswan
Today we start our full day tour visiting the Egyptian Museum of antiquities, the largest precious collection of Egyptian art around the world, which Includes the treasures of the Boy King Tutankhamoun enclosed in his tomb for over 3,500 years ago before it was discovered in the 1920s. Then visit the Citadel of Saladin that was built in 12th Century and Alabaster Mosque. Then discover the oldest part of the city, known as Coptic Cairo, originally a Roman fortress town called ‘’Babylon”. Visit the Hanging Church, the Church of Abu Serga and Ben Ezra Synagogue. After you will be escorted to the Cairo Railway Station to board the Sleeping train to Aswan. (Breakfast,Dinner)

Day 7: Aswan
Upon arrival you will be escorted to your Nile Cruise Ship where you will spend the next 3 nights / 4 days. Embarkation, visit the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk and the Temple of Philae dedicated to the goddess Isis. Back to our ship. Check-in & Overnight in Aswan. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Day 8: Aswan / Kom Ombo / Edfu
After breakfast, sail on the Nile by Felucca around Kitchener’s Island.  Sail to Kom Ombo. Visit the Temple shared by the two Gods Sobek and Haroeris. The Temple stands at a bend in the Nile. Sail to Edfu and Overnight. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Day 9: Edfu/ Esna/ Luxor
Visit the Temple of Horus in Edfu, said to be the best preserved Temple on the Nile. Sail to Esna, cross the lock. Sail to Luxor and Overnight. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Day 10: Luxor / Cairo
Disembarkation after breakfast. Cross to the West Bank. Visit the Necropolis of Thebes, Valley of the Kings, the funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and Colossi of Memnon. Then transfer to Luxor train Station to board the Sleeping train to Cairo. (Breakfast, Dinner)

Day 11: Luxor / Cairo
Arrive Giza train station, meet & assist and transfer to your hotel in Cairo. Check-in Rest of the day is free for leisure. (Breakfast)
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Day 12: Departure Cairo
Santa Maria Tours representative will transfer you to Cairo airport for your final departure.