Luxury Small Group Tours Egypt: 7-Day Pyramids, Abu Simbel & Nile Cruise

Welcome to Egypt. Your representative meets you as you leave the aircraft and guides you through arrivals and baggage before a private drive to the Kempinski Nile Hotel, a five-star riverside hotel in Garden City, on the banks of the Nile. Meet your Egyptologist and your small group over a welcome dinner, with the lights of Cairo shimmering on the Nile.

Begin at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the largest museum in the world devoted to a single civilisation. Climb the Grand Staircase of royal statues to the Tutankhamun galleries, where more than five thousand objects are shown together for the first time, then see the restored Khufu Solar Boat. After lunch, visit the Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx at Giza with your Egyptologist.

An early flight takes you south to Abu Simbel, where Ramses II carved four colossal statues of himself into the mountainside more than 3,200 years ago, beside a smaller temple for Queen Nefertari. Fly on to Aswan for the island Temple of Philae, dedicated to Isis, then board MS Le Fayan for lunch, a first afternoon on the river and a captain's welcome cocktail.

Wake as the ship sails north along the river. At Kom Ombo, explore a rare double temple shared by Sobek the crocodile and Haroeris the falcon, and see the mummified crocodiles in the museum beside it. Lunch is served on board as fields and villages slip past. In the afternoon, visit the Temple of Horus at Edfu, then dress in a galabeya for a festive dinner.

Cross to the West Bank of Luxor, the ancient city of the dead. In the Valley of the Kings, enter several royal tombs with your guide and see the painted corridors and burial chambers of the pharaohs. Continue to the terraced Temple of Hatshepsut, built for one of Egypt's few female pharaohs, and pause at the Colossi of Memnon. The afternoon is yours on board, followed by an evening of entertainment.

Leave the ship after breakfast for Karnak, the largest temple complex ever built, where the Great Hypostyle Hall holds 134 giant columns. Walk the Avenue of Sphinxes towards Luxor Temple, then lunch in Luxor. In the afternoon, fly to Cairo and check in to the Waldorf Astoria Cairo Heliopolis, where a farewell dinner with your group and Egyptologist closes the evening.

The final morning of one of our favourite luxury small group tours begins with a slow breakfast in Cairo and time to pack at leisure, or a last walk along the Corniche if your flight leaves later. A private transfer takes you to Cairo International Airport, where our team assists you through check-in and security. Your trip concierge remains available until you are on board.