Anubis Cruise Package Cairo-Luxor

Day 1 - Paris / Cairo (15/10/2025)
- Presentation of participants at the airport.
- Check-in and boarding formalities, then take-off for Cairo.
- Welcome on arrival and assistance with entry formalities.
Cairo is the capital of Egypt, also known as Umm al-Dunia (“Mother of the World”). It is Africa's most populous city. Despite its old-fashioned air, which makes you feel as if you've travelled back in time, you quickly fall under the spell of Cairo and its people. The capital is the first stop on your trip to Egypt, as you discover its cultural treasures...
- Transfer to hotel.
- Check-in and overnight at hotel.
Nb: Air transport can be arranged at night for both outward and return journeys.

Day 2 - Cairo / Luxor (16/10/2025)
- Breakfast.
Depending on flight times, transfer to Cairo airport
- Assistance with check-in and boarding formalities, then take-off for Luxor.
- Arrival in Luxor.
Luxor: ancient Thebes, the city of the hundred gates of the god Amon, capital of Upper Egypt and of the entire country during the 18th Dynasty.
- Transfer to your cruise ship.
- Lunch on board.
- Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 3 – Luxor (17/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Departure for the Nile crossing to visit the Theban Necropolis.

The Valley of the Kings, where you'll visit two tombs of kings and one of a queen. From the 18th dynasty onwards, and throughout the New Kingdom, pharaohs were no longer buried in temples or monuments dedicated to their final journey. Thutmose I and all the pharaohs who followed him decided to be buried on the other side of the Nile, on the west bank, in the land of the Beyond. Gone were the colossal monuments such as the pyramids, or even the Mastabas used under the Old Kingdom, but rather vaults dug right into the rock, with access scrupulously sealed and camouflaged. The main motive was undoubtedly to escape grave robbers.

OPTION: Visit to the Temple of Medinet Habou
Visit to the temple of Medinet Habou.
Medinet Habou is the Arabic name of the site that the Egyptians called Djémé.
The funerary temple of Ramses III is the finest example of monumental art under the Ramessides. The last great builder of ancient Egypt, the pharaoh reopened the great construction sites abandoned since Ramesses II, and built the vast royal temple of Médinet-Habou, south of the Theban necropolis.
Rameses III built his Castle of Millions of Years, the largest group of ancient Egyptian remains after Karnak, on the site of one of the primitive sites of the Theban religion, closely associated with the cult of Amun.

- Stop at the Colossi of Memnon, the only funerary monuments of Amenophis III.
Renowned for their imposing architecture visited by emperors and travellers of all eras. Standing 18 m high and weighing 1,300 tonnes the Greeks named them the Colossi of Memnon, after the legend of the Oracle of Memnon.
- Lunch on board.
- Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 4 – CRUISE - Luxor / Edfu / Kom Ombo (18/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Free time on the boat as you sail to Edfu.
Lunch on board.
Visit to the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus.
One of the largest and best-preserved temples in ancient Egypt. Built in 237 BC by Ptolemy III, and completed 180 years later, in 57 BC, during the reign of Ptolemy XII, on the site of a temple dedicated to Thutmose III (18th dynasty). It is dedicated to HORUS, the falcon-headed god, son of ISIS and OSIRIS.
You enter the temple through the great pylon, decorated with huge reliefs showing the king and the gods, into the courtyard, whose walls recount the various rites performed by the king. Two large black granite falcons, representing the god HORUS, guard the temple entrance.
- Sailing to Kom Ombo.
- Dinner and overnight on the boat.

Day 5 – CRUISE - Kom Ombo / Assouan (19/10/2025)>br> - Breakfast on board.
- Visit to the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom Ombo.
“Two temples in one, unique in ancient Egypt”.
Built in the Ptolemaic era (Ptolemaic dynasty, Greco-Roman period) on the site of a New Kingdom temple (dedicated to Thutmose III, 18th dynasty). It stands on a hilltop 15 metres above the Nile.
Its most astonishing feature is that it is dedicated to 2 distinct divinities: the falcon god HAROERIS, “HORUS the Great”, sometimes called “HORUS the Ancient”, and SOBEK, the crocodile god. This temple is all about duality: it has two entrances, two parallel corridors, symmetrically arranged halls on either side of these corridors, all coming together at the double sanctuary. On the esplanade in front of the entrance, sculpted columns reveal shimmering colors. The small building to the right of the entrance is Hathor's chapel, housing a number of crocodile mummies.
- Sail to Aswan, capital of Nubia.
- Lunch on board.
Visit the temple of Philae on the island of Agilka, nicknamed the “Pearl of the Nile”. After Nasser built the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, the island of Philae, upstream from the Nile's first cataract Nile, was completely covered by water. With the help of work was undertaken to dismantle Philae's monuments piece by piece Philae's monuments and reassemble them on the neighboring island 400 meters downstream. Philae was entirely dedicated to Isis, and the temple from the Ptolemaic period (Ptolemaic dynasty, Greco-Roman the stone tabernacle housing the statue of the divinity.
- Visit to a papyrus institute and a jewelry shop.
- Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 6 – Assouan (20/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Free morning on the boat.
OPTIONAL: ABOU SIMBEL (110 € by coach).
An exceptional site located 260 km south of Aswan, this great temple was saved by UNESCO in 1969. The Colossi of Ramses, the largest in Egypt, carved into the cliffs and dedicated to the most famous gods of Pharaonic Egypt: AMON RE, RAMSES and PTAH.
- the Great Temple dedicated to the god Amon-Ra,
- the Temple of Hathor.
- Lunch on board.
- Afternoon at leisure.
OPTIONAL: Mini-cruise in a felucca and visit to Lord Kitchener's botanical garden (included in the “EXCURSION PACK 1” package, at €75).
A mini-cruise in a felucca is the only way to reach the left bank and the Kitchener and Elephantine islands, real jewels of the river. Let yourself be lulled by the breeze and sail through the calm blue waters of the age-old Nile. Stop off on Kitchener Island for a visit to its famous botanical garden, where the finest varieties of plants and trees attract countless birds. You'll marvel at the royal palms, sycamores and ebony trees in this sumptuous floral park.
- Dinner and overnight on board.
OPTIONAL: Sound and Light Show at Philae Temple (€55).

Day 7 – CRUISE - Assouan / Esna (21/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Lunch on board.
- Sailing to Esna.
- Free time on the boat.
- Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 8 – CRUISE - Esna / Luxor (22/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Free morning.
- Lunch on board.
- Visit to Karnak Temple.
The most theological temple ever built here over 2000 years, the faith of mankind has paid homage to the same god: Amun. The greatest kings (Sethi I, Ramses II, Thutmosis III, Ramses III) succeeded one another here. The name “Karnak”, meaning “fortress”, dates back to the Islamic conquest.
OPTIONAL: Visit Luxor Temple (included in “EXCURSION PACKAGE 1”, at €75). Visit Luxor Temple.

Day 9 – Luxor / Cairo (23/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Lunch on board.
- Depending on flight times, transfer to Luxor airport.
- Assistance with check-in and boarding formalities, then take-off for Cairo.
- Arrival in Cairo.
- Transfer to hotel.
- Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 10 – Cairo (24/10/2025)
- Breakfast.
- VISIT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES, whose treasures range from the prehistoric age to the Roman period. Among other things, you'll see Tutankhamun's famous treasure. Home to over 250,000 pieces, it is one of the world's largest museums. It allows visitors to discover the history of ancient Egypt over 5 millennia.
- Lunch time.
- Visit to the citadel of Saladin el Awouby and the Mosque of Mehmet Ali (built between 1830 and 1849, it is so white that it is nicknamed the “alabaster mosque”) with the great clock in the center of the courtyard, a gift to Mehmet Ali from the French king Louis Philippe. Its Belvedere offers a panoramic view of Cairo.
- Stroll through the souks of Khan el Khalili.
Built in the 14th century, this colorful bazaar displays folkloric wares in copper and mother-of-pearl-inlaid wood, clothes embroidered with pearls and gold and silver threads, and a selection of oriental handicrafts.
- Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 11 - Cairo (25/10/2025)
- Breakfast on board.
- Visit to the Giza plateau, symbol of ancient Egypt, with the famous pyramids of:
- Kheops, (the largest built around 2650 BC), one of the 7 wonders of Antiquity and the only one to have stood the test of time. For over 40 centuries, it was the tallest man-made monument, standing 146 metres high
- Khephren, the pyramid of Khephren appears higher than that of Kheops, but in reality it is slightly lower, due to its steeper angle of inclination and its location on slightly higher ground
- Mykerinos, the tomb of King Mykerinos, is much smaller than the other two pyramids, standing 66 metres high
- The Sphinx (lion with Pharaoh's head), enigmatic guardian of the tombs and temple, facing east to protect the tombs from looters. It is 73 metres long and 20 metres high, carved from a single block of stone.
- Lunch near the pyramids.
- VISIT THE SITES OF MEMPHIS AND SAQQARAH.
- Memphis was the capital of the ancient Empire under the Pharaohs. Today, it's little more than a palm grove where a few boulders, stelae and statues lie, including an enigmatic alabaster sphinx.
- Saqqarah, an immense necropolis dotted with a variety of tombs, where you'll discover the funerary complex of King Djeser, with its step pyramid.
- Dinner.
- Depending on flight times, overnight in hotel or on the plane.

Day 12 – Cairo / Paris (26/10/2025)
- Depending on flight times, transfer to Cairo airport.
- Check-in and boarding formalities, then take-off for France.
- Arrival in France.