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Welcome to ElegantCruises.com. We provide deluxe cultural and expedition cruises aboard small, elegant ships or riverboats in Egypt and the Red Sea, Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, and the Galapagos Islands.  Our Egypt tour is designed to give our passengers a taste of not only the ancient lands and archaeological legacies of the Pharaohs, but also to the art and architecture of the Greeks, Romans, early Christians, and the successive Islamic dynasties that ruled these lands. With a history that stretches over thousands of years, it's impossible to see everything that Egypt and its surrounding areas has to offer in just one Egypt tour. However, ElegantCriuses.com’s program makes the most of your Egypt tour travel experience by offering an itinerary that features well-known and less well-known sites. Escorted by knowledgeable guest-lecturers of Pharaonic, Roman, and early Christian art and architecture, you will spend time during your Egypt tour in many of the fabulous locations that you may have seen in films, books or on television such as Luxor, Cairo, and Petra.

Egypt Tour on Land and By Sea
“Monasteries of the Lonely Desert,” the name of our Egypt tour, explores some of the world’s greatest antiquities. You will travel to four early Christian monasteries and convents in the Arab Desert and the Sinai peninsula and disembark for several days at the great temples at Luxor, the magnificent Karnak Temple complex, and the Valley of the Kings, where some 65 tombs including Tutankhamen's have been excavated. Our Egypt tour takes you beyond the physical boundaries of Egypt by visiting fascinating sites in Jordan as well. Many have seen pictures of Petra, but nothing will prepare you for this most majestic and dramatic ancient city that is a UNESCO world heritage site and one of “The New 7 Wonders of the World”. Imagine entering this unique rock-cut, ancient city of Petra on horseback where you will spend the rest of the day exploring the rose-red city that is “half as old as time." Our Egypt tour continues along one of the world’s oldest trade routes, called The King’s Highway in Jordan. Winding its way through the different ecological zones of Jordan, you will experience impressive views of forested highlands, open farmland plateaus, deep ravines, and the edge of the eastern desert or Badia Region, with some of the most fantastic desert landscapes in the world. Elegant Cruises and Tours designed its Egypt tour to include this historically rich area allowing you to visit exceptional, engaging sites and ruins such as the 12th-century crusader castle of Kerak, the Byzantine Church of Mount Nebo, and in Amman, Jordan, the Roman ruins of Citadel Hill and its second-century Roman theatre.

On the cruise section of our Egypt tour itinerary you will travel aboard the intimate and lovely expedition ship, the m/s Monet, calling at ancient ports along the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aqaba. After each day of exploring intriguing archaeological marvels you will arrive back at your floating “home away from home”. Here you can relax and enjoy delicious meals freshly prepared and served in single leisurely sittings in the ship’s window-lined Nymphea Restaurant. Formal attire is never expected on our Egypt tour: casual dress during the day, “elegant-casual” for the evening is acceptable. During the evenings of our Egypt tour, you will have opportunities to make new acquaintances while enjoying cocktails with light piano entertainment in the Giverny Lounge or you may wish to listen to one of our Egypt tour guest lecturers offering insights regarding the day’s activities and excursions. On the land portions of our engaging Egypt tour, you will travel by motor coach, jeep and for the valiant adventurer, by horseback to many riveting natural and historical sites.

Optional Pre or Post Cruise Extension on Your Egypt Tour
The gateway city for either the arrival for or departure from your Egypt tour is the extraordinary city of Cairo. Chaotic, noisy, exotic and colorful, jammed with millions of Egyptians, Arabs, and Africans the sheer intensity of the city leaves an indelible impression. One of the world's largest urban areas, Cairo offers many fabulous ancient temples, tombs, Christian churches, magnificent Muslim monuments, as well as the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, and nearby the Great Pyramids of Giza. As an optional pre or post cruise extension on our Egypt Tour, ElegantCriuses.com offers an English-speaking Egyptologist and guide, a full-day excursion to Memphis, Sakkara, Giza Pyramids and Sphinx with lunch and a second full-day excursion to the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities and the Khan El-Khalili Bazaar. Two days is certainly not enough time to see everything thoroughly, but a brief visit gives a captivating glimpse into what this enthralling city has to offer.

The Gateway Cities for Your Egypt Tour
Although ElegantCruises.com does not include airfare in our Egypt tour rates, we do acknowledge the importance of reasonable international air rates in the overall convenience and ultimate enjoyment of your Egypt tour vacation. For your benefit we design our Egypt tour programs so they begin and end either in Cairo, Egypt or Amman, Jordan two compelling cities that offer unique blends of old and new. Over the many years Elegant Cruises & Tours has been in business, we have established good relationships with reputable travel partners that specialize in finding the best route and airfares. If you would like assistance in air ticketing, please let us know when you make a reservation and we will provide some recommendations. The areas surrounding these vibrant cities boast excellent sites of antiquities that will reward you with more lasting memories. If you would like to spend some extra days exploring on your own, our travel partners can also arrange any additional hotel bookings.

Elegant Cruises & Tours, Inc has more than 20 years experience in creating culturally focused cruise/tour programs for the ambitious, intellectually curious, American traveler. We continue to improve our adventure vacation programs every year, adding new ships and more destinations.  We believe that the Egypt tour programs we offer are exciting, fulfilling and most memorable vacation treats for all our passengers. Come experience the splendors that Egypt and the surrounding area has to offer on an Egypt tour from ElegantCruises.com.