This classic 8-day tour introduces you to the main sites of Egypt while spoiling you with a higher standard of hotels, transport and cruise boat than our other Egypt tours. The tour starts with time spent in Cairo based in a 5-star hotel while you tour the Pyramids, Sphinx and the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. You then take a short internal flight to Luxor to enjoy a 4-night cruise through the Nile Valley on a 5-star cruise ship from Luxor to Aswan. En-route you'll visit the temples at Edfu and Komombo while watching typical rural Egyptian life pass you by from the sun deck of the boat. From Aswan you will visit the beautiful island temple of Philae and enjoy a felucca sailboat trip on the Nile before we fly you back to Cairo. We end in Cairo with a trip to the famous Egyptian Museum which holds the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb. This tour offers our most comfortable and luxurious experience exploring the treasures of Egypt.