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Nile & Aswanthen Abu Simbelthen Fayoum
18 nights · 19 days · As a couple
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- Day 2 Aswan Felucca to Elephantine and the Botanical Garden · About 2 hours
- Day 3 Philae Temple, the Unfinished Obelisk and the High Dam · About 4.5 hours
Nile & Aswan
Days 1–6 · 6 nightsWhat to know about Nile & Aswan
- How long
- 4–5 nights recommended. Temples by day and the river between them: choose a boat by its name and its hours ashore, and the Nile does the rest.
- What deserves priority
- A cruise or dahabiya, Philae and time in Aswan.
- Aswan High Dam
The monument that ended ancient Egypt's calendar.
- Edfu Temple
The temple of Horus, whose walls are a library turned outwards.
Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026
- Elephantine
A granite island at the first cataract, where Egypt used to end.
Open 08:00–16:00 · checked 3 September 2026
- Kom Ombo Temple
A temple built twice over, side by side, for the crocodile and the falcon.
Open 07:00–21:00 · checked 15 September 2026
- Lake Nasser
An archive of ancient Nubia that nobody can visit.
- Nubian Village
A living Nubian village on the west bank at Aswan, facing the island of Sehel.
- Day 1Arrival in Nile & AswanTime reserved for arrivalSee day
- Day 2Aswan Felucca to Elephantine and the Botanical GardenSuggested · About 2 hoursA slow afternoon on the river at the first cataract, where Egypt used to end.See day
- Day 3Kom Ombo and Edfu Day Tour from AswanSuggested · Full day · about 8 hoursTwo temples the Ptolemies built in the old Egyptian way, part of how Egypt kept reimagining eternity under Greek rule: Kom Ombo for a crocodile and a falcon, and Edfu for Horus, joined each year by Hathor sailing south from Dendera.See day
- Day 4Philae Temple, the Unfinished Obelisk and the High DamSuggested · About 4.5 hoursThree stops that explain Aswan's great works, ancient and modern.See day
- Day 5A free day in Nile & AswanOpen for us to plan with youSee day
- Day 6Another free day in Nile & AswanOpen for us to plan with youSee day
Abu Simbel
Days 7–10 · 4 nightsWhat to know about Abu Simbel
- How long
- From an Aswan base. Ramses II's colossal temple on Lake Nasser, reached from Aswan by an early road trip of about six hours there and back, or by a short flight.
- What deserves priority
- The temples of Ramses II and Nefertari.
- Abu Simbel
Two temples cut into a cliff above the Nile, taken apart and rebuilt higher to save them.
Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026
- Day 7Travel to Abu SimbelTravel estimate: roughly 3½ hours each way by road, or a short flight.See day
- Day 8A free day in Abu SimbelOpen for us to plan with youSee day
- Day 9Another free day in Abu SimbelOpen for us to plan with youSee day
- Day 10Another free day in Abu SimbelOpen for us to plan with youSee day
Fayoum
Days 11–19 · 8 nightsWhat to know about Fayoum
- How long
- A day from Cairo, or a night. About two hours from Cairo each way. A day covers Wadi El Rayan or the Valley of the Whales; a night by Lake Qarun lets you see both without rushing.
- What deserves priority
- Wadi El Rayan's lakes and waterfalls, and the whale fossils of Wadi El Hitan.
- Wadi el-Hitan
A desert valley of fossil whales with legs, from a sea that covered Egypt forty million years ago.
- Day 11Travel to FayoumTransfer time reservedSee day
- Day 12A free day in FayoumOpen for us to plan with youSee day
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- Day 18Another free day in FayoumOpen for us to plan with youSee day
- Day 19Departure dayPlanned around your flight
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- Fayoum8 nights
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