Egypt Christmas Vacation journeys of this depth, variety, and festive magic represent one of the most extraordinary travel decisions any traveler can make for the holiday season — and this ten-day adventure through Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel has been crafted by our team of expert travel designers and licensed Egyptologists to ensure that every single hour of your Egypt Christmas Tours experience is filled with discovery, wonder, and the kind of genuine personal transformation that only the most extraordinary destinations on earth can deliver. From the moment you land in Cairo to the final festive morning before departure, this holidays to Egypt New Year package carries you through five thousand years of living history in the most perfect possible seasonal context.
Cairo opens your Egypt Christmas Vacation with the full, overwhelming force of its ancient grandeur in the most beautiful light of the year. The Giza Plateau, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the enchanting Coptic churches of Old Cairo, and the legendary Khan El Khalili Bazaar combine to create a Cairo experience of extraordinary depth and variety — experienced in the clear, golden December light that makes every ancient monument more visually breathtaking than at any other time of year. From Cairo, your Egypt Christmas Tours adventure carries you southward to Luxor — the greatest open-air museum on earth — where the Temple of Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, and the elegant Temple of Luxor deliver a concentration of ancient wonders simply unmatched anywhere in the world.
The journey continues southward to Aswan — the enchanting Nubian city where the Temple of Philae, the Aswan High Dam, and the ancient Granite Quarries combine with the natural beauty of the Nile at its most serene to create one of the most memorable stages of any holidays to Egypt New Year itinerary. And for travelers who choose the optional excursion to Abu Simbel — where the four colossal statues of Ramses the Great guard the entrance to the greatest rock-cut temple ever created — the reward is an encounter with ancient grandeur that stands entirely in a category of its own and elevates this Egypt Christmas Vacation into one of the most extraordinary travel experiences currently available anywhere in the world.
Every element of this ten-day Egypt Christmas Tours journey — private air-conditioned transfers, licensed Egyptologist guides, hand-selected five-star accommodation, and a carefully paced itinerary — has been designed to ensure your Egypt Christmas Vacation exceeds every expectation from the first festive morning to the final farewell.
Everything below is included within your Egypt Christmas Vacation — arranged and confirmed so that every moment of your Egypt Christmas Tours experience is focused entirely on festive discovery and wonder.
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Your Egypt Christmas Vacation begins the moment your aircraft touches down in Cairo — the City of a Thousand Minarets and one of the most historically extraordinary capitals on earth. During the festive season, Cairo carries an additional warmth and celebratory energy that makes your arrival feel genuinely magical from the very first moment — the perfect opening chapter of your Egypt Christmas Tours adventure. Our dedicated representative meets you personally at Cairo International Airport, guiding you through all arrival procedures with warm, efficient service before escorting you in a private, air-conditioned vehicle to your handpicked five-star hotel.
Check-in is smooth and unhurried, and the remainder of this first evening belongs entirely to you. The bustling streets of Cairo invite a gentle festive evening stroll, or simply settle into the comfort of your hotel and allow the excitement of your holidays to Egypt New Year journey to build naturally. Rest well — tomorrow, the ancient wonders of the Giza Plateau and the greatest archaeological museum on earth await.
The second day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation delivers one of the most historically powerful mornings of the entire festive journey. After a delicious breakfast, your licensed Egyptologist guide accompanies you to the Giza Plateau — where the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the sole surviving wonder of the ancient world standing 146 meters tall, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of Menkaure rise from the desert in the clear, golden December morning light with a visual drama that is more breathtaking here than at any other time of year. The enigmatic Great Sphinx, guardian of the plateau for more than four thousand five hundred years, and the ancient Valley Temple complete a Giza experience that forms the irreplaceable cornerstone of any memorable Egypt Christmas Tours adventure.
After a satisfying lunch, your holidays to Egypt New Year journey continues to Saqqara — where the Step Pyramid of Djoser, built around 2670 BCE by the architectural genius Imhotep, stands as the oldest stone building on earth and the very first pyramid ever constructed in human history. Understanding the revolutionary significance of what was achieved here reframes every ancient monument that follows with a richer and deeper context — and makes this one of the most intellectually rewarding stops of your entire Egypt Christmas Vacation.
The third day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation immerses you in the extraordinary cultural depth of Cairo — moving seamlessly from the world's largest archaeological museum to the ancient Christian heritage of Coptic Cairo and the irresistible energy of the city's most legendary marketplace. Your morning begins at the Grand Egyptian Museum — housing more than one hundred thousand priceless artifacts spanning five thousand years of civilization. The complete Tutankhamun collection — the golden death mask, royal chariots, and thousands of funerary objects displayed in breathtaking galleries — stands as the defining cultural highlight of any serious Egypt Christmas Tours journey and one of the finest museum experiences available anywhere on earth during the festive season.
After a delicious lunch at an authentic local restaurant, the Hanging Church of Old Coptic Cairo — dating to the third century AD and ingeniously built atop the water gate of the Roman-era Babylon Fortress — delivers a moment of profound spiritual beauty and architectural wonder that adds a deeply moving festive dimension to your holidays to Egypt New Year experience. The legendary Khan El Khalili Bazaar brings your day to a vivid, sensory conclusion — aromatic spices, glittering jewelry, copper lanterns, and the irresistible energy of a marketplace that has been trading for centuries filling every alleyway with the spirit of Christmas in Cairo.
The fourth day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation carries you by air from Cairo to Luxor — the ancient city of Thebes and the greatest open-air museum on earth. After landing and transferring to your hotel, your Egyptologist guide leads you to the Temple of Karnak — the largest religious complex ever constructed, covering more than two hundred acres and built continuously over two thousand years by successive pharaohs. The Great Hypostyle Hall, with its one hundred and thirty-four towering columns carved with hieroglyphs and colorful reliefs, produces a response of pure, wordless awe that defines the absolute pinnacle of any Egypt Christmas Tours experience. The sacred lakes, soaring obelisks, and sanctuaries dedicated to the Theban triad complete a Karnak visit of extraordinary depth and grandeur.
The elegant Temple of Luxor follows — built by Amenhotep III and expanded by Ramses the Great, Tutankhamun, and Horemheb — its grand colonnades and colossal statues becoming even more magical as the December evening light illuminates the Avenue of Sphinxes in a display of festive beauty that makes this one of the most visually spectacular evenings of your entire holidays to Egypt New Year journey.
The fifth day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation delivers the most historically profound morning of the entire festive journey — a deeply moving exploration of Luxor's legendary West Bank. The Valley of the Kings opens before you with a silence and scale that feels immediately sacred — sixty-three royal tombs carved into golden limestone hills, their walls painted with vivid hieroglyphs, religious texts, and colorful scenes guiding the pharaohs of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties through the afterlife journey. Your Egyptologist guide brings the personal stories of these extraordinary rulers to vivid life — including the famous discovery of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in 1922 — making this the most emotionally powerful stop of any Egypt Christmas Tours itinerary.
The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut rises in three elegant colonnaded terraces against the sheer Theban cliffs — a monument of breathtaking precision dedicated to one of ancient Egypt's most remarkable female rulers, whose twenty-two-year reign brought extraordinary prosperity and ambitious construction across the entire country. The Colossi of Memnon — two massive seated statues of Amenhotep III standing more than eighteen meters tall and guarding the floodplain for over three thousand four hundred years — provide a fittingly monumental conclusion to a West Bank morning that represents the absolute historical crown of your holidays to Egypt New Year adventure.
The sixth day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation carries you on a scenic southward journey through the Upper Egyptian landscape toward Aswan — punctuated by two of the most compelling temple experiences anywhere along the Nile. The Temple of Horus at Edfu is Egypt's finest preserved ancient temple — its towering thirty-six-meter pylons adorned with dramatic battle scenes, its remarkably intact walls and hieroglyphic inscriptions providing an unparalleled glimpse into religious rituals performed here over two thousand years ago. The magnificent granite falcon statue of Horus standing sentinel at the inner temple entrance is one of the most iconic images in all of Egyptian archaeology — and encountering it in the clear December light makes it one of the most photographically stunning moments of your Egypt Christmas Tours journey.
The Twin Temple of Kom Ombo follows — ancient Egypt's only perfectly symmetrical double temple, dedicated simultaneously to Sobek the crocodile god and Haroeris the Elder, its fascinating reliefs of ancient surgical instruments, nilometer, and collection of mummified crocodiles adding extraordinary layers of discovery to a visit as unique as it is beautiful. As your vehicle continues toward Aswan in the warm Egyptian winter afternoon, the excitement of one of the most enchanting cities on the Nile builds steadily — and the extraordinary final days of your holidays to Egypt New Year adventure draw closer.
The seventh day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation reveals the extraordinary character of Aswan — a city that combines ancient monuments of breathtaking beauty with remarkable feats of modern engineering. Your morning begins at the Aswan High Dam — completed in 1970 and standing one hundred and eleven meters tall, this engineering marvel revolutionized Egypt's economy by controlling the Nile's annual floods, generating massive hydroelectric power, and creating the vast Lake Nasser reservoir. The breathtaking panoramic views of the desert landscape and the shimmering blue expanse of the lake resonate powerfully alongside the ancient achievements witnessed throughout your Egypt Christmas Tours journey.
The Unfinished Obelisk at the ancient Granite Quarries follows — the largest obelisk ever attempted, weighing approximately twelve hundred tons, abandoned in the bedrock more than three thousand years ago and preserving the exact quarrying techniques of ancient Egyptian craftsmen in extraordinary detail. The afternoon delivers the most romantically beautiful moment of the Aswan experience — a motorboat ride to the island Temple of Philae, the Pearl of Egypt, dedicated to Isis and relocated stone by stone in a remarkable UNESCO rescue operation. Rising from the water with graceful elegance in the warm December afternoon light, Philae is one of the most beautiful monuments of your entire holidays to Egypt New Year adventure.
The eighth day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation offers the most awe-inspiring optional excursion of the entire festive journey — the temples of Abu Simbel, carved directly into a Nubian sandstone cliff by Ramses the Great more than three thousand two hundred years ago on the western shore of Lake Nasser. Four colossal seated statues of Ramses II, each standing twenty meters tall, guard the Great Temple entrance with an authority and grandeur that stops every traveler in their tracks — and the inner sanctuary, aligned with extraordinary astronomical precision to allow sunlight to illuminate the gods within twice each year, represents the supreme pinnacle of ancient engineering genius. For any traveler on an Egypt Christmas Tours journey, Abu Simbel is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter that stands entirely in a category of its own.
The smaller Temple of Nefertari, built as a gift of eternal love to Ramses' beloved queen, adds an intimacy and emotional warmth that perfectly complements the overwhelming power of the Great Temple. Both temples were remarkably relocated sixty-five meters higher during a massive UNESCO operation in the 1960s — preserving their extraordinary astronomical alignment — adding yet another layer of modern human achievement to an ancient wonder of incomparable magnificence. A flight from Aswan returns you to Cairo for your final two nights — where your holidays to Egypt New Year adventure enters its final, reflective chapter.
The ninth day of your Egypt Christmas Vacation offers something genuinely rare within any structured travel itinerary — the freedom of personal choice. Two equally extraordinary options await you on this final full day of exploration, and both deliver a depth of historical discovery and cultural richness entirely worthy of the journey that has preceded them.
For travelers who choose Alexandria, the ancient Mediterranean capital founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE awaits as one of the most historically layered and intellectually fascinating cities in the world. The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa — a unique second-century tomb complex blending Egyptian, Greek, and Roman architectural styles across three underground levels — provide an immediately absorbing introduction. Pompey's Pillar, a towering twenty-seven-meter red granite column from 297 AD, and the historic Citadel of Qaitbay — built in 1480 on the legendary site of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — complete an Alexandria experience of genuine depth and magnificence. A delicious traditional seafood lunch overlooking the Mediterranean adds a final coastal pleasure to your Egypt Christmas Tours adventure before returning to Cairo.
For travelers who prefer Cairo, the extraordinary capital offers further exploration of its seemingly inexhaustible treasures — or simply a leisurely final day of shopping, reflection, and savoring the warm festive atmosphere of this magnificent city that has so beautifully framed your entire holidays to Egypt New Year experience.
The final morning of your Egypt Christmas Vacation arrives with the particular, bittersweet beauty of an extraordinary festive chapter drawing gently to its close. Your last Egyptian breakfast at the hotel is a leisurely, deeply satisfying affair — a final opportunity to savor the flavors, warmth, and uniquely Egyptian festive atmosphere of a country that has given you ten days of ancient grandeur, cultural discovery, and genuine holiday magic that no other destination on earth could provide.
You leave today as someone permanently changed by what they have seen and felt across one of the finest Egypt Christmas Tours experiences available to any traveler in the world. You leave carrying the golden memory of the Great Pyramid in the December morning light, the overwhelming grandeur of Karnak's Great Hypostyle Hall, the painted ceiling of a pharaoh's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the romantic beauty of Philae rising from the Nile at sunset, and perhaps the supreme wonder of Abu Simbel at first light. These are the memories of a holidays to Egypt New Year adventure that no photograph can fully capture and no description can adequately convey. A private vehicle carries you to Cairo International Airport — and as your aircraft lifts above the city, you carry with you something no luggage allowance could contain. This has been your Egypt Christmas Vacation — and it has been everything it promised, and far more.
Planning a family adventure with an Egypt Christmas vacation is one of the best decisions you will ever make — and getting started is simple. A 25% deposit confirms your booking and begins your unforgettable journey.
For families traveling during Christmas, New Year, or Easter, a 50% deposit is required to secure your reservation during these peak travel periods, especially for popular Egypt Christmas tours and holidays to Egypt New Year. The remaining balance can be paid before travel or in cash upon arrival. If any selected accommodations have specific payment terms, our team will clearly explain everything before you book your Egypt Christmas vacation.
Families booking their Egypt Christmas vacation by credit card simply need to provide a signed authorization letter. The signature must match the cardholder’s credit card and passport, ensuring a secure and smooth transaction.
Refunds related to your Egypt Christmas vacation are processed quickly and returned to the original payment method. Please note that no-show bookings are non-refundable. A 6% bank processing fee applies to all refunds, including those for Egypt Christmas tours.
Every hotel included in your Egypt Christmas vacation is selected for quality and comfort — perfect for families after a day of exploring. All rates are based on double occupancy. Solo parents traveling with children may incur a single supplement. Prices may change, so early booking is recommended to secure your place on top Egypt Christmas tours.
Domestic flight prices and schedules within your Egypt Christmas vacation are estimates and subject to change. For international families, we offer competitive airfare options, making your holidays to Egypt New Year seamless from start to finish.
While we do everything possible to ensure a perfect Egypt Christmas vacation, certain situations — such as severe weather, political developments, or supplier changes — are beyond our control. Any additional costs arising from such events would be the traveler’s responsibility. Your experience, however, remains our highest priority throughout your Egypt Christmas tours.
Tipping during your Egypt Christmas vacation is entirely optional. However, if your guide made your family’s holidays to Egypt New Year truly special, a gratuity is always appreciated.
If something is not right during your Egypt Christmas vacation, inform your guide immediately so we can resolve it quickly. Our Customer Care Manager is available throughout your journey. After returning home, written concerns related to your Egypt Christmas tours will be handled by our Customer Care Management team.
Airline fees and a 6% bank processing fee apply to all refunds.
If official travel restrictions affect your Egypt Christmas vacation, all payments will be refunded or converted into a travel credit for future use. Only airline amendment fees and bank charges apply, including for Egypt Christmas tours.
Applicable during your Egypt Christmas vacation:
Additional airline supplements may apply for children traveling on holidays to Egypt New Year.
The best time is between October and April. The weather is cool and pleasant for visiting temples in Luxor and Aswan. Summer (June to August) can be very hot, with temperatures exceeding 40°C.
The drive takes approximately 2.5 to 3 hours each way via the Desert Road, covering about 220 km (136 miles).
We usually stop at a local restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean. You can enjoy fresh seafood, but please check your booking 'Inclusions' to see if lunch is prepaid or optional.
Yes, we visit the outer plaza and can arrange for an internal tour during opening hours (closed on Fridays and Saturdays in some sections). Your guide will provide all the historical context.
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