4 Night Cruise sailing from Luxor to Aswan on board Nile Adventurer.

Day 01 - Depart Luxor
Transfer to your 5-star deluxe Nile cruise boat, the Sanctuary M.S. Nile Adventurer, moored in a private dock in Luxor. On board, you will be welcomed by the reception staff, who will offer you chilled fruit juice while assisting with your check-in.

Lunch will be served on board in the main restaurant. After lunch, your tour of the East Bank will begin with a visit to the Temple of Karnak, built over more than a thousand years by generations of Pharaohs. The great "Hypostyle Hall" is an incredible forest of giant pillars, covering an area larger than the whole of Notre Dame Cathedral. Next your Egyptologist will guide you on a tour of the strikingly graceful Temple of Luxor dedicated to the god Amun.

Return to your cruise for afternoon tea on board in the lounge. Gourmet dinner on board followed by a belly dancer, accompanied by a whirling dervish show.

Day 02
After breakfast, visit the West Bank of Luxor to explore the Valley of the Kings, a vast City of the Dead where magnificent tombs were carved into the desert rocks, decorated richly, and filled with treasures for the afterlife by generations of Pharaohs. You will also have the chance to visit at least one tomb in the Valley of the Queens.

Rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces, the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut (Ancient Egypt's only female Pharaoh) merges with the sheer limestone cliffs that surround it, as if nature herself had built this extraordinary monument. On the way back to the river Nile, your road passes by the famed Colossi of Memnon, known in Ancient Greek times for their haunting voices at dawn.

Lunch and afternoon tea will be served in the lounge while you cruise to Esna. Tonight you will be greeted by your Boat Manager, who will introduce you to the boat staff and review on-board facilities and your cruise program for the next few days. Complimentary Egyptian wine and local beer will be served, together with freshly prepared canapes, followed by gourmet dinner menu.

Day 03
This morning, your Egyptologist will guide you round the Greco-Roman Temple of Khnum at Esna. The beautifully preserved Great Hypostyle Hall was built during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius; it was excavated from the silt that had accumulated through centuries of annual Nile floods and is about nine metres below present-day street level.

Lunch on board, while you cruise to Edfu. This afternoon, explore the largest and most completely preserved Pharaonic - albeit Greek-built - temple in Egypt, the extraordinary Temple of Horus at Edfu.

Egyptian cooking lesson will be presented on board. Afternoon tea will be served while you cruise to Kom Ombo. Tonight's dinner on board will be an "Egyptian Night" costume party for all guests, with a chance to dress up in traditional Egyptian "galabeyyas". Dinner will be a lavish buffet of Egyptian specialities, followed by oriental music and dancing for everyone.

Day 04
The day's sightseeing begins with a visit to the Temple of Kom Ombo, dedicated to the crocodile-god Sobek. The temple stands at a bend in the Nile where in ancient times sacred crocodiles basked in the sun on the riverbank.

Return to your boat for lunch on board, while you cruise to Aswan.This afternoon, your Egyptologist guide will escort you to visit the Aswan High Dam, Egypt's contemporary example of building on a monumental scale. Take a short motorboat ride to visit the romantic and majestic Philae Temple on the Island of Agilka.

Next we proceed to the Granite Quarries, which supplied the ancient Egyptians with most of the hard stone used in pyramids and temples, and still hold a huge unfinished obelisk.

In the afternoon (weather permitting) take a ride on a felucca, a typical Egyptian sail boat, around Elephantine Island, Lord Kitchener's Botanical Gardens, and the Agha Khan Mausoleum (life jackets will be provided).

Enjoy your afternoon tea served in the lounge with a trio of authentic Egyptian musicians. Tonight's farewell dinner will be a formal gala dinner, with white-gloved waiters serving gourmet cuisine.

Day 05 - Disembark in Aswan
Buffet breakfast on board, and check out at 8am.