Eight days covering Cairo, Abu Simbel and the Nile, with the entry visa, both domestic flights, every entrance fee and all transfers included.
A representative is waiting at Cairo International Airport to greet you and deal with the formalities, then drives you to your hotel in a private air-conditioned vehicle. The rest of the day is for resting.
A guided tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza — Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinos — then the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple beside it. Lunch at a local restaurant. The afternoon goes to the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, which holds the treasures of ancient Egypt along with a great many antiquities nobody else has room for.
An early start for the excursion to the Abu Simbel Temples, built by Ramses II and cut directly into the rock — the single most impressive thing in Egypt, and worth the alarm clock. Back to the boat for lunch as it sails to Kom Ombo and its twin temple, shared between Sobek and Horus. On to Edfu, where a horse-drawn carriage takes you to the Temple of Horus, the best-preserved temple in the country.
You disembark at Luxor and cross to the West Bank. The Valley of the Kings first, where generations of pharaohs including Tutankhamun were buried, then the Temple of Hatshepsut at El-Deir El-Bahari and a stop at the Colossi of Memnon. You transfer to your Luxor hotel afterwards.
Karnak Temple after breakfast, the vast religious complex that was the centre of Egyptian state religion for centuries, and then Luxor Temple. A transfer to Luxor Airport in the afternoon and a flight back to Cairo, where you check in for a free evening.
Nothing planned. Khan al-Khalili Bazaar is the obvious way to spend it, and the easiest place in the city to bring something home from.
Breakfast and check-out, then a representative transfers you to Cairo International Airport for your flight home.