Enjoy the best tour of Egypt and Jordan, and make the best of your stay in the Middle East. Start with Cairo to see the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Egyptian Museum. Travel south for a 3- Nights Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan before traveling to Sharm El Sheikh to relax and explore the shores of the Red Sea. End the trip with three days in Jordan to see the legendary rose-red city of Petra, the Dead Sea, and many more.
Welcome to Cairo, Egypt
Around Egypt Tours representative will meet and assist you at Cairo International Airport, and then he will accompany you to the hotel
by a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle. At the hotel, the representative will assist you to check-in and review your Egypt private tours to confirm pick-up times for each tour. Welcome Drink.
At night, our Tour Manager will pick you up from your hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle for a free tour to attend the Sound
and Light Show of Giza Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren, and Mykerinus. Discover the enchanting history of the ancient Egyptians. It starts with the story of the Sphinx, who has been the vigilant guardian of the dead city for five thousand years. The show also depicts the story of building the pyramids and relates the history of great and famous figures of ancient Egypt, such as Thutmosis IV, Akhnaten, Nefertiti, and Tut Ankh Amon. Back to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel in Cairo, and then your tour guide will accompany you to start your Egypt private tour by visiting one
of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and Mykerinus, famous the Sphinx, and Valley temple. Stop for Lunch at a good quality local restaurant, and then move to visit the Egyptian Museum, Treasures room for the child king Tut Ankh Amon. Back to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
After breakfast, check out from your hotel in Cairo and move to Cairo Airport to fly to Aswan. Around Egypt Tours representative will
meet you at Aswan airport. Your private tour guide will accompany you to start your day of Aswan tours with a cross by boat to Agilkia Island to visit the Philae temple dedicated to the goddess Isis, one of the Nubian Temples rescued before the High Dam was built. Enjoy Philae’s long colonnades, towers, and reliefs, including the last surviving hieroglyphic and demotic inscriptions in Egypt, then transfer to your hotel.
After breakfast, check out from the hotel, then transfer by a private air-conditioned vehicle to Abu Simbel, about 03 hours and a half driving. The two Temples of Abu Simbel, with their unique style, are considered to be the masterpieces of ancient Egypt. They reflect the glory and grandeur of the new Kingdom. The Egyptian government and UNESCO decided to co-operate to save these temples from the flood. The Temple of Ramsses II was dedicated to the four universal gods Ptah, Re-Her-Akhtey, Amun-Re, and Ramsses II. The great Abu Simbel temple is also called The Sun Temple of check RamssessII.The Temple of Queen Nefertari is also Called Temple of Hathor, the Sun God's wife, symbolically, the two Temples, that of Ramsses II and that of Nefertari bring Ramesses II, Nefertari, Hathor, and the Sun God together as one. Later on, you will be escorted back from Abu Simbel to your Nile cruise for embarkation. Overnight on the Nile cruise Aswan.
By the morning, you will enjoy Sailing to Kom Ombo while getting breakfast on board. Arrive Kom Ombo to visit the Temple shared by two
gods Sobek and Haeroris in Kom Ombo. Back to your Nile cruise to sail to Edfu with lunch on board; on arrival at Edfu, our guide will accompany you to visit the Horus Temple at Edfu by a Kalesh ride ( horse and carriage). Explore the huge Ptolemaic Temple of Horus at Edfu, which is the most complete and best-preserved of the Egyptian Temples, consisting of many columns, halls, chambers, and chapels. Two statues of Horus flank the twin-towered entrance gate. Enjoy an afternoon tea during sailing to Esna. Dinner and overnight on board.
In the early morning, you will sail to Luxor with enjoying your breakfast on board, then set out from your cruise, where you will be taken to the West Bank of Luxor. Start your tour by visiting the royal cemetery for 64Pharaohs in the Kings (the original resting place of the world-famous boy King Tutankhamun). After that, you will move to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (the only Female Pharaoh) at El Deir EL Bahari, which was built in the 15th century BC, and the two towering statues of Memnon. (The three tombs visited are determined by the Egyptian Government to preserve them from the large flow of visitors; therefore, they are rotated throughout the year and cannot be confirmed as to which tombs before your visit). After the tours, you will return to your Nile Cruise for an overnight stay.
Breakfast on board the cruise before disembarkation, you will be guided for a wonderful exploration of the East Bank of the Nile in
Luxor to Karnak Temple, the world's largest ancient religious site.The hypo style hall with its gigantic columns is one of Egypt’s famous landmarks. There will be free time to explore the different parts of the huge complex built during various Pharaoh's reigns. Then you will be transferred to the majestic Luxor Temple, which was built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II for ritual and festivals and dedicated to the God Amun. In the afternoon, you will be transferred to Luxor Airport to fly to Sharm. Upon arrival at Sharm Airport, Around Egypt Tours representative will meet you in Sharm Airport, then, he will accompany you by a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh. Overnight in Sharm.
Enjoy our trip to Ras Mohammed National Park, which is both a terrestrial and an aquatic nature reserve. The 480 square kilometers protected area lies where the Gulf of Suez meets the Gulf of Aqaba in Sinai's southern extremity. This place is the home to many rare mammal species: Dorcas gazelle, Nubian ibex, and red fox. Easier to spot are the resident birds like terns, herons, gulls, and ospreys. Thousands of white storks pass through Ras Mohammed each year, heading south during September/October and back north during April/May. Overnight in Sharm.
Free day in Sharm, or join our optional tour to one of the natural wonders of Sinai, the majestic Colored Canyon. Take a walk among dramatic sandstone canyon walls streaked with melting yellows, purples, reds, magentas, and gold. In certain places, the canyon walls reach up to 40 meters. You will feel as if you are enclosed in a spectacular coloring book.
Overnight in Sharm.
Free day in Sharm or join our optional tour to the Monastery of St. Catherine, located at the heart of Sinai and the foot of the Gebel Musa, or Mount Moses. Fronted by gardens and cypress trees, the monastery is owned and run by the Greek Orthodox Church. Its rich library houses the world's second-largest collection of illuminated manuscripts after the Vatican. You can see a large number of antique works of art: invaluable icons, beautifully carved doors, exquisite wall paintings, and other fine religious ornaments.
Overnight in Sharm.
Breakfast will be served at your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, and then you will be transferred to Sharm El Sheikh Airport to fly to for a flight to Amman. Upon arrival at Queen Alia Airport, our representative will meet and assist you with the customs and immigration procedures. Transfer to the hotel in Amman for overnight.
On the second day of your Jordan tours. After breakfast, we will drive towards north to Jerash, situated in Gilead's mountain's foothills, the ancient city is reminiscent of the Roman Empire. Being one of the largest and well-preserved Roman Architecture sites outside of Italy, its grandeur can be seen in the colonnaded street, Oval Plaza, the Nymphaeum, and the Temple of Artemis. After this, we will drive towards the Dead Sea; being the lowest point on earth and filled with various minerals with medicinal properties, the site has developed into a health spa-like hotspot. The mineral concentration in the mud is used for therapeutic and beauty treatments. Queen Cleopatra and Sheba both were said to have known the value of the site and used it. Due to too high salinity, the water supports no form of life; hence the name the Dead Sea and floating are very easy. Be sure to prepare to swim and relax in the mud—overnight in Amman.
Your tour manager will pick you up from your hotel in Amman. After breakfast, drive about 2.5 hours to the Rose Red City of Petra, Jordan's largest attraction. First started in the 6th century B.C. by Nabataean Arabs, the city boasts beautiful facades carved directly into the mountainsides' walls. Arriving at the visitor’s center, it’s a 700-meter walk to the Siq entrance, which is an impressive 1200 meter long gorge of a kaleidoscope of colors the towers more than 80 meters above you. As you exit the chasm, you’re instantly transfixed by Petra's beauty, chosen as one of the New World Wonders, the place speaks for itself. From there, you take a one and half hour drive to the protectorate of Wadi Rum, a sprawling desert landscape that impresses you at every turn. Made famous by the film Lawrence of Arabia, there are canyons and cliff, sand dunes, and ancient rock glyphs, before returning to Amman.
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• Prices
Tour prices are quoted in US dollars per person per trip except during Christmas, New Year & Easter Egypt travel packages; however, you can pay in Euro or GBP. Moreover, we always update our prices to ensure that you receive the lowest price possible. Once your Tour of Egypt and Jordan is confirmed, no change to the rates is guaranteed from our part.
• Domestic flights
There are two domestic flights included on this trip. We usually use Egypt Air or Nile Air for this service. Baggage allowance is as follows:
Checked-in - 1 Bag, max 23kg
Hand luggage - 1 bag, max 7kg
• Tips for the final departure
On your last day, we would recommend not booking any outgoing international flight until after 3.00 pm, or consider spending an extra night in Cairo. Our tour manager can assist with additional services like accommodation and transfers.
• Children Policy
0 - 01.99 Free of Charge
2 - 5.99 pay 25% of the tour price
6 - 11.99 pay 50% of the tour price
12+ pay full tour price as per adult person
If your Tour of Egypt and Jordan includes airfare, extra charges for your children may be applied.
• Payment Policy
Reservations should be made as early as possible to confirm the desired Egypt and Jordan tours. Spaces will be secured as well as Your request will be confirmed upon receiving a deposit of 25 % of the required payment.
During the peak season (X-Mas, New Year), the required deposit will 50%of the required payment. This deposit forms part of your final payment. The remaining balance should be paid up to a week before your arrival date or cash upon arrival.
• Installments policy
Around Egypt Tours offers you a new payment plan that allows you to pay your booked Tour of Egypt and Jordan in monthly installments.
You will pay in monthly installments of 6 months, nine months, or 12 months leading up to your arrival. You will pay the Rest of
payment upon your arrival to Egypt in cash or by credit/debit cards, or you can pay the full cost in monthly installments before your
Arrival to Egypt.
• Additional Entry Tickets
All our Egypt vacations and programs don't include the entrance fees to the specific archaeological sites such as :
• Entering one of the Pyramids inside
• Visit the Mummies Room at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
• Visit the Solar Boat Museum at the Pyramids area
• Enter the Tomb of Tutankhamen at Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
• Tipping
It is a customary attitude for expressing one’s satisfaction with good services rendered to him by staff on duty with him. We advise If you are willing to offer it, this will be great, and if not, you are not obliged to do it.
• Cancellation Policy
In case you cancel your Tour of Egypt and Jordan, the following scale of charges will be applied:
From the date of booking until 61 days before your arrival date, 10% of the entire tour price will be charged.
Between 60 and 31 days before your arrival date, 20% of the entire tour price will be charged.
Between 30 and 15 days before your arrival date, 50% of the entire tour price will be charged.
Between 14 and 1 days before your arrival date, 100% of the entire tour price will be charged.
Additionally, there are cancellation fees on all domestic flights within Egypt. If you cancel a tour at any time, you will be subject
to any fees according to the airline’s cancellation policy.
• Emergency Cancellation Policy
Around Egypt Tours offers a highly flexible cancelation policy, in case your government or the airline declared a travel warning
for War, riot, civil strife, natural or nuclear disaster, fire, flood, conditions, epidemics, infections, or outbreaks of COVID-19. If that happened, we would be refunding you the amount paid for the booked tour, or in some cases, your payment will be a credit for future travel. You have the flexibility to apply this amount towards new travel services booked within 12 months.
According to the airline's terms and conditions, only flights’ cancellation/changing fees are charged, and bank surcharges fees are applied on the deposit amount paid.
We as Around Egypt Tours prioritize your well-being, health, and safety; for that reason, we've amended our cancellation policy. We've also modified our procedures to develop the global health and safety protocols to match the recommendations (WTTC).
Our Hotels have been chosen carefully to obtain the “Hygiene Safety” certificate to match the recommendations of the Ministries of tourism and health in Egypt to reflect our interests and values towards our Guests.