overview
The Nile Premium, launched in 2008 in a colonial style, sails five days from Luxor to Aswan, visiting Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, Edfu and Philae.
INCLUDED
- Meet and assist by our representatives at the airport or railway station
- Full-board accommodation aboard the Nile Premium Cruise
- Tour guide speaking English, Portuguese, German or Spanish
- All sightseeing as private guided tours
- Entrance fees for every site in the itinerary
- Bottled water during the trips
- All transfers in a private, air-conditioned deluxe vehicle
- All service charges and taxes
NOT INCLUDED
- Any optional tours
- Personal spending
- Tipping
ITINERARY
Embarkation at Luxor, and the East Bank
You board before lunch and settle into your cabin. The first tour that afternoon takes in the Karnak Temple Complex, with its precincts and its majestic columns, and then the more contained Luxor Temple. Dinner and entertainment back on board.
- Meals: Lunch, Dinner
- Overnight: aboard, moored at Luxor
The West Bank, then sailing to Edfu
Breakfast, then the West Bank: the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Hatshepsut cut into the cliffs, and the Colossi of Memnon. Lunch back on board as the ship sails towards Edfu by way of the Esna Lock. Afternoon tea, then the manager's cocktail party and dinner served on deck.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Overnight: aboard
Edfu and Kom Ombo
Coffee and breakfast, then off the boat at Edfu for the Temple of Horus. Lunch on board as the ship sails to Kom Ombo, and in the afternoon the temple there and the crocodile museum beside it. The boat continues towards Aswan, with a Galabeya gathering in the evening.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Overnight: aboard
Aswan
Breakfast on board, then the High Dam, Philae Temple and the Unfinished Obelisk. After lunch there is a felucca across to the Botanical Gardens, timed for the light going off the water, which is the best hour Aswan has. Dinner and a Nubian show to finish the evening.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Overnight: aboard, moored at Aswan
Disembarkation
A last breakfast on board, then you leave the ship and we arrange your onward transfer.
