Egypt with Sleeper Train

Once you arrive at the airport in Cairo, our representatives will welcome and transfer you to your hotel to rest for a day.

• Enjoy your breakfast provided by the hotel before we take you to the Great Pyramids and visit several of the grand structures built by hands over 4,500 years ago. The tour gives you a closer look at three of the pyramids: the Cheops, Chephren, and Mykerinus pyramids. You’ll see why they’re dubbed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
• We’ll also visit the Valley Temple while in Chephren, where the purification and mummification of King Khafre and his family took place thousands of years ago before it was buried under the sand.
• Then we will take you to the Egyptian Museum, where excavated 5000-year-old jewelry, artifacts, and artworks from the famed Tomb of Tutankhamen are displayed. The day ends as we take you back to the hotel to rest up for the next day. The tomb made headlines across the world in 1920 as the 3,500-year-old resting place was discovered almost fully intact. (Breakfast)

• We travel to Alexandria for a whole-day tour that begins in the library of Alexandria, the world’s biggest library that store over 8 million books. Visitors can buy a ticket to enter the reading area.
• Note that the Alexandria Library is closed on Fridays and on every public holiday.
• Our next stop will be another of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Lighthouse of Alexandria that stands atop the Citadel of Qaitbay. The structure was a defensive fortress built in the 15 th century, overlooking the Mediterranean sea coast.
• Then we visit King Farouk’s Royal Gardens, who’s also known as the last king of ancient Egypt. We take a stroll along the hallways of the Al-Haramlek Palace built in Montaza in 1925 by King Ahmed Fouad who commissioned Italian architect, Verocci. We’ll also look at the El-Salamlek Palace, a symbol of Alexandria.
• Then we visit The Abbo Elabbas Mosque, a gorgeous mosque adorned with intricate designs and the Alexandria Naval Unknown Soldier Memorial for unnamed soldiers who lost their lives on naval battles. The statue of Alexander the Great is a close-by visit right before lunch.
• We’ll visit the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the oldest church in Africa found in 42 CE, before making a stopover at the famed bridge of Stanley. Then we visit the old downtown of Alexandria to see the former city-center of Alexandria that was built by Alexander the Great himself, before going back to the hotel to transfer your luggage to the sleeper train heading for Luxor. Enjoy a luxurious dinner aboard the train before retreating back to your cabin. (Breakfast & Dinner)

• Start the day with a breakfast on board before arriving at the East Bank of Luxor to visit the Karnak Temples which was built by a cult to worship to the gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu during the beginning of the Middle Kingdom. The site was deliberately torn down immediately after the builder, Amenhotep IV died.
• Then we visit the Luxor Temple which construction started by Amenhotep III from the 18 th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and finished by the King Ramses II during the 19 th Dynasty. The temple was dedicated to the Theban Triad: Amun-Ra, the great Egyptian god, Mut, his wife, and Khonsu, their son. There we’ll see the Obelisk of Ramses II that was located near the 1 st Pylon meant to commemorate the king’s death. We’ll spend the night in a hotel in Luxor. (Breakfast)

We begin the day after a breakfast at the hotel with the Valley of the Kings, a location known as the burial ground of many kings. The tombs brag magnificent architecture, housing tombs of kings buried together with jewelry and artifacts. We’ll visit three of the tombs, before moving to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the daughter of Thutmosis I. She was the only queen of ancient Egypt who ruled for 20 years during the 18 th Dynasty. On the way to visit the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, we’ll make a short stop at the Colossi of Memnon, before we return back to the hotel. (Breakfast)

• We visit Aswan after a breakfast at the hotel and head for the Aswan High Dam, the world’s largest embankment dam. We’ll visit the Temple of Philae Island that was relocated from island of Philae which is now submerged in the water of the Lake Nasser, a reservoir, most of the year. The temple is now on the island of Agilkia which we’ll reach by boat.
• Then we return back to the mainland and Aswan for a view of the High Dam. Enjoy a scenic route overlooking the Lake Nasser and short stops for photogenic spots before boarding the sleeping train for dinner and spending an overnight as it heads for Cairo.(Breakfast & Dinner)

• After breakfast, you’re given a free-day in Cairo. We offer Castle of Salah El Dien and Mohamed Aly Mosque destinations to visit, or you can opt for the Old Cairo Tour. After a relaxing day, we’ll take you to enjoy one last sight of the Great Pyramids during the Sound and Light Show in the evening.
• You’ll spend your last night in Cairo (Breakfast)

We’ll fetch you by car from the hotel after breakfast to the airport and assist you through departure formalities until you board your plane. (Breakfast)