12-Day Highlights of Egypt Jordan Tour

Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, then meet your guide, who will escort you to the Giza plateau to visit one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramids of Khufu, Khufu and Mycrinus, the famous Sphinx, and the Valley Temple facing a mighty statue. Lunch in a good quality local restaurant.

Then move on to enjoy the Egyptian Museum. Drive to Islamic Cairo, where you can explore Khan El Khalili, Cairo's old bazaar. Return to the hotel—overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast - Lunch

Check out from a hotel in the morning, then transfer to Cairo Airport for a flight to Luxor, where you will be met and assisted, then take an air-conditioned vehicle to board your 5-star Egypt Nile cruise to check-in. After lunch on board, enjoy visiting the impressive Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple. Dinner and overnight on board the Nile cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast on your Nile cruise, take an excursion to the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, Valley of the Kings, then to the mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, which was built by the architects of the New Kingdom Pharaoh Hatshepsut approximately in the 15th century BC. Head to the Colossi of Memnon. After lunch, you will sail to Edfu, enjoying a leisurely dinner. Overnight on board Nile Cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast on a Nile cruise, visit the well-preserved Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Horus in Edfu. Sail to Kom Ombo to see the unique Temple of Sobek, dedicated to the crocodile, Sobek, and the falcon-headed deity Horus. Lunch on board. Continue sailing to Aswan. Dinner and overnight on board the luxury Nile cruise.

Meals: Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner

After breakfast on the Nile cruise, enjoy a day’s sightseeing in Aswan. Start with the High Dam and the giant known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt, the Unfinished Obelisk, then on to the beautiful Temple of Philae, devoted to the two goddesses Isis and Hathor. Dinner and overnight on board a deluxe Nile Cruise.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Disembark from your Nile cruise after breakfast, then transfer to Aswan Airport for your return to Cairo, where you will be met and assisted at the airport and then taken to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for a flight to Amman. Upon arrival at Queen Alia Airport, our representative will meet and assist you through the customs and immigration procedures. Transfer to the hotel in Amman for overnight.

Meals: Breakfast

In the morning, we drove two hours from Amman to Gadara (Umm Qais), which belonged to the famous Decapolis, a union of 10 cities founded by Alexander the Great. You have an overwhelming view of the north Jordan Valley, the Golan Heights, and the Sea of Galilee. We leave to Jerash, the best example of a Roman provincial city in the Middle East.

Visit the spectacular forum, Roman colonnaded street, the Nymphaeum, and the Temple of Artemis. The next stop is Ajloun, the great 12th-century Islamic castle built around 1184/85 by the famous Islamic leader Salah al-Din. Back to Amman and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, drive to Mt. Nebo, where Prophet Moses gazed at the promised land before he died and his alleged burial place. You visit the old monastery and overlook the Jordan Valley, Dead Sea, Jericho, and Jerusalem.

After, we proceed to Madaba, where to find the famous mosaic 6th-century map of Palestine in St. George’s church. Afterward, we drive to the lowest point on earth, the Dead Sea, where you have leisure time and the chance to float on water. Overnight Amman hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, drive about 2 hours to the rose-red city of Petra, the biggest attraction in Jordan. Petra was first established around the 6th century B.C. by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and laid the foundations of a commercial empire that extended into Syria. Upon arrival, you will begin the trip on horseback to the canyon, the so-called Siq, and then by foot to the most beautiful monument: the Treasury.

Among other monuments are the Street of Facades, the Royal Tombs, and Pharaoh"s Castle. Afterward back to the hotel in Amman for the overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, transfer to Queen Alia Airport for final departure.

Meals: Breakfast