Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor: 3 Nights

This Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor spends three nights on the river between Upper Egypt's great temples, sailing north with the current. You are met at Aswan airport or railway station and taken straight to the boat.

On the first day your Egyptologist takes you to Philae, the temple of Isis rebuilt on Agilkia Island, and to the High Dam above Lake Nasser. The boat then sails for Kom Ombo, the double temple of the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Haroeris, and Edfu, where the Temple of Horus is one of the best preserved in Egypt. Between them you pass through the lock at Esna, where the ship is raised or lowered to a new water level.

The last full day is Thebes: the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon on the West Bank, then the Karnak temple complex on the East Bank. You disembark in Luxor after breakfast on the fourth day.

All meals are on board, in an air-conditioned cabin with its own bathroom. The order of visits can change with the river schedule; every visit listed is kept.