Luxury Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise and Cairo

After breakfast, meet your private Egyptologist and travel to the Giza Plateau. Explore the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, then enjoy your complimentary professional photo session overlooking the Pyramids.

Continue for lunch at a local Egyptian restaurant, followed by the Grand Egyptian Museum, where more than 100,000 artifacts and the complete treasures of Tutankhamun are displayed together for the first time. Return privately to your hotel.

Overnight in: Cairo – Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at the First Residence
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Visits: Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Valley Temple, Grand Egyptian Museum
Signature Experience: Complimentary professional photo session at the Pyramids
Optional Premium Experience: Interior entry to the Great Pyramid can be arranged at additional cost.
Good to Know: Dinner this evening is not included, leaving you free to try Cairo's restaurants. Your guide can recommend and reserve.

Check out after breakfast and transfer privately to Cairo Airport for your included flight to Luxor. You are met on arrival and taken to the Oberoi Philae, moored at her private berth, where you check in and take lunch on board.

In the afternoon, visit the Karnak Temple Complex, where the Great Hypostyle Hall's 134 columns still carry traces of their original color, and the ceremonial Luxor Temple. Dinner is served aboard.

Overnight in: M/S Oberoi Philae, moored in Luxor
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Visits: Karnak Temple Complex, Luxor Temple
Signature Experience: Boarding a vessel carrying just 22 cabins and suites, each with Nile views, with her own private docking
Good to Know: Shore excursions from the Oberoi Philae are small-group tours with an Egyptologist. Your Cairo touring is private. Domestic flight times are confirmed by airline availability and may require an early departure. Baggage allowance is 1 checked bag up to 23 kg (50 lb) plus 1 cabin bag up to 7 kg (15 lb) per guest

An early sailing brings you to Edfu for breakfast aboard, then a guided visit to the Temple of Horus — the most completely preserved temple in Egypt, its roof, columns and sanctuary still intact after centuries buried in sand.

Return aboard for lunch as the vessel sails on to Kom Ombo and its twin temple, built with two identical halves and divided between the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed Horus. Dinner is served aboard.

Overnight in: M/S Oberoi Philae, moored at Kom Ombo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Visits: Temple of Horus at Edfu, Twin Temple of Kom Ombo
Signature Experience: Two of the Nile's great temples in a single day, with the sailing between them taken at the Oberoi's unhurried pace
Good to Know: Sightseeing today is a small-group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist.

Breakfast aboard as the vessel completes her passage to Aswan. Visit the High Dam, the engineering work that reshaped the Nile, then travel by motorboat to Philae Temple on its island setting, dedicated to Isis and moved stone by stone to save it from the rising water.

Return aboard for lunch. In the afternoon, travel by car to the Nubian Museum, where the story of the communities displaced by Lake Nasser is told through the objects saved with them. Dinner is served aboard.

Overnight in: M/S Oberoi Philae, moored in Aswan
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Visits: Aswan High Dam, Philae Temple, Nubian Museum
Signature Experience: An afternoon at the Nubian Museum, part of the Oberoi Philae's own itinerary, rounding out the story the temples only half tell
Optional Premium Experience: Private felucca sailing around Elephantine Island at sunset, and a day excursion to Abu Simbel by air, can both be arranged at additional cost.
Good to Know: The Nubian Museum is reached by car. Sightseeing today is a small-group excursion with an accompanying Egyptologist