10-Day Egypt Journey for Women: Pyramids, Nile Cruise and Abu Simbel

Your tour leader meets you at Cairo International Airport, handles passport control, baggage claim and customs, and transfers you to your hotel to unwind.

Visit the Egyptian Museum and its Tutankhamun treasures, then an Egyptian patisserie to learn the art of Middle Eastern pastry making and take home a gift box of sweets. The evening brings a welcome dinner with fellow travellers.

Tour the Giza Plateau, home to the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu, then the Great Sphinx. Ride a camel to the panorama point for photographs.

Fly from Cairo to Luxor and board M/S Movenpick Hamees. After settling in, visit Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple with your private Egyptologist guide, then enjoy dinner on board.

Cross to the West Bank to explore the Valley of the Kings and the Temple of Hatshepsut with your private Egyptologist guide. In the afternoon M/S Movenpick Hamees sails south through the Esna lock toward Edfu, where you spend the night on board.

Visit the Temple of Horus at Edfu, one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt, then sail on to Kom Ombo for the shared temple of Sobek and Haroeris. M/S Movenpick Hamees continues to Aswan, where you spend the night on board.

Start in Aswan with a motorboat ride to the Temple of Philae, then see the Unfinished Obelisk and the High Dam. In the afternoon enjoy a felucca sail on the Nile before checking out of the ship.

Fly from Aswan to Abu Simbel to see the temples of Ramses II and Nefertari, fronted by four colossal statues of the pharaoh. Return to Cairo in the afternoon and settle in at Le Meridien Cairo Airport.

Visit the Mosque and Madrasa of Sultan Hassan, a major Mamluk monument, then walk from Bab el-Fotouh to the Khan el-Khalili bazaar along a street little changed in centuries. A farewell dinner closes the trip.

After breakfast you transfer to Cairo Airport for your international flight.