Iberotel Crown Emperor @ 4 Nights – Luxor / Aswan

A new day, your first breakfast on board, and then it is time to visit the West Bank of Luxor starting with the Valley of the Kings. It was the final resting place for the kings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties. Covered in intricately detailed, vibrant wall-paintings, the tombs are normally every visitor's number-one stop on a West Bank visit.

Followed by the visit of Hatshepsut. The Temple is magnificently situated at the foot of the sheer cliffs fringing the desert hills. The temple itself was also partly hewn from the rock. Here Queen Hatshepsut had herself represented with the attributes of a male pharaoh (beard and short apron) to demonstrate that she possessed all the authority of a king.

Finishing with the immense Colossi of Memnon. The statue emitted a musical note at sunrise and this gave rise to the myth that Memnon was greeting his mother, Eos, with this soft, plaintive note.

After this visit to the Theban “City of the Dead”, you will be taken back to your boat for your lunch, and then you can watch as it departs Luxor and sails to Edfu via Esna. After lunch, you are invited to the Manager’s Cocktail Party in the Bar. Dinner is served as the boat sails majestically towards Edfu. The cruise overnight in Edfu.

Optional Trip: You may choose to have one time life experience of the Hot Air Balloon over Luxor by the sunrise. Your stay in Luxor would not quite be the same without a bird’s eye view of the city from a hot air balloons. After convenient, pre-dawn pickup from your cruise ship, cross the River Nile to the West Bank – where your hot air balloon awaits. Balloon rides here take off just after sunrise and float over the West Bank, with its green farming fields tucked between the barren escarpments, viewing the area's temples and tomb sites from high above.

After breakfast on board, transfer to visit Edfu Temple. The temple's looming sandstone walls are covered in giant hieroglyphics and dazzling friezes that ape the patriotic decorations of earlier pharaohs. After your visit to this superb temple, you will be taken back to the boat to sail onward to Kom Ombo. After lunch, you can enjoy a tasty afternoon Tea on the Sundeck with plenty of time while the boat continue to sail to Kom ombo.

As the boat embark, you visit the temple. The soaring columns of the Great Temple of Kom Ombo rising dramatically above the Nile's bank are one of Egypt's iconic views. This temple dedicated to the gods Sobek and Haroeris.

By getting back to the boat, it sails again heading to Aswan. After dinner, you are invited to Galabeya Party in the Bar. The cruise overnight in Aswan.

Optional Trip: You may choose to attend Philae Sound and light show.

After breakfast it is time to visit Aswan's High Dam which is modern Egypt's most lauded and yet controversial building project. It begun in 1960 and taking 11 years to complete.

After a short felucca sail, you visit Egypt's ancient center for the cult of Isis, the Temples of Philae. It was saved from a watery grave by UNESCO's rescue project during the building of the Aswan High Dam; the temples were transferred block by block from their original place on Philae Island to Agilika Island.

Finally yet importantly the unfinished obelisk, it is a 41-meter-long and four-meter-wide chunk of stone. It is estimated that if completed, the obelisk would have weighed 1,168 tons and would have been the largest ever hewn.

After lunch, a felucca ride in the Nile and a visit to the Botanical garden would be the perfect match for nature experience.

After dinner is served, you are invited to the Nubian Show in the Bar. The cruise overnight in Aswan

Optional Trip: You may choose to sail, by felucca, to see the Nubian village.

Optional Trip: You may choose to visit Abu Simbel. The most magnificent of the monuments Ramses II built, Abu Simbel is both the perfect example of the ambition of this pharaoh's reign and also a model illustration of the achievements of modern engineering and global cooperation. The entire temple complex was transplanted from its original location and lifted piece by piece to its current site by an international UNESCO team working against the clock to preserve it from being flooded by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The colossal stone statues that grace the facade are Pharaoh Ramses II's attempt to achieve immortality. It has worked. Today, visitors here still crane their necks in disbelief at the behemoth temples just as the pharaoh's subjects would have done when the temples were first raised. You can go either by flight or by coach.

You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check out and then you will be transferred to Aswan airport, or Aswan railway station, by our representative who will help you with your luggage before your final departure.

Optional Trip: You may choose to visit Abu Simbel. The most magnificent of the monuments Ramses II built, Abu Simbel is both the perfect example of the ambition of this pharaoh's reign and also a model illustration of the achievements of modern engineering and global cooperation. The entire temple complex was transplanted from its original location and lifted piece by piece to its current site by an international UNESCO team working against the clock to preserve it from being flooded by the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. The colossal stone statues that grace the facade are Pharaoh Ramses II's attempt to achieve immortality. It has worked. Today, visitors here still crane their necks in disbelief at the behemoth temples just as the pharaoh's subjects would have done when the temples were first raised. You can go either by flight or by coach.