Cruise Overview
Sail aboard the five-star MS Mayfair Nile Cruise between Luxor and Aswan with full-board luxury accommodation, expert guiding, private air-conditioned transfers, and visits to Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan, Philae, Karnak, Valley of the Kings, and Abu Simbel options.
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Cruise Highlights
Cruise Itinerary Options
Two programmes on MS Mayfair, both full board with an Egyptologist. Departures run on Mondays and Fridays; an 8-day programme is also offered.
Your guide meets you in Aswan for the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk and Philae Temple on its island, then you board MS Mayfair for lunch. The afternoon is a felucca under sail around Elephantine Island, and the first night is spent tied up at Aswan. There is a welcome reception on board before dinner.
A sailing day, which is the point of a cruise rather than a coach tour: the bank moves past while you are at breakfast. Kom Ombo in the afternoon, the only temple in Egypt built twice over and split down the middle between Sobek the crocodile god and Horus the elder.
Edfu, the best-preserved temple in Egypt: the Ptolemies built it over 180 years and the sand that buried it afterwards kept the roof, the walls and the colour. Back on board for the run north through the lock at Esna towards Luxor.
Across to the West Bank for the Valley of the Kings, the terraces of Hatshepsut Temple and the Colossi of Memnon, then Karnak and Luxor Temple before you disembark and transfer on. A sunrise balloon flight can be added on the last morning if you want the valley from the air first.
You meet your guide in Luxor for Karnak, added to by pharaoh after pharaoh for two thousand years, then board MS Mayfair for lunch. Luxor Temple comes in the evening, lit and largely empty, which is the better time to see it.
The Valley of the Kings, where the New Kingdom pharaohs were cut into the rock, Hatshepsut's three terraces built into the cliff, and the Colossi of Memnon. Back on board for lunch, and the ship sails for Edfu while you eat.
Edfu by horse carriage from the mooring to the Temple of Horus, the best-preserved in the country. Then back aboard and on to Kom Ombo, the double temple shared between Sobek and Horus the elder, before the overnight run south to Aswan.
Breakfast on board at Aswan, then the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk still lying in its quarry, and Philae Temple, which was moved island to island in the 1970s to save it from the water. Lunch, dinner and the last night on board.
Breakfast, check out, and transfer wherever you are going next in Aswan. Abu Simbel can be added here as an optional excursion at the end of the programme - it is the natural place for it, since you are already as far south as the cruise goes.
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A 4-day program from Aswan to Luxor and a 5-day program from Luxor to Aswan, plus an 8-day option, all on a full-board basis.
You visit the High Dam, the Unfinished Obelisk and Philae Temple in Aswan, then check in on MS Mayfair for lunch and a welcome reception before sailing.
On Mondays and Fridays.
Five-star full-board accommodation, pick-up and drop-off, deluxe air-conditioned transfers, admission to the listed sites, and guides in English, French or Spanish. Tips, domestic flights and extra tours are extra.
From $855 per person, full board. An Abu Simbel excursion can be added at the end of the 5-day program.
