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Egypt Holidays
Egypt is the gift of the Nile." So wrote Herodotus of Halicarnassus close to 2,500 years ago. Possibly history's earliest recorded travel writer, this Greek scholar/traveler was fascinated by all details of an Egyptian culture that already was 3,500-years-old in his time. Since then, tourism has poured into this mysterious land, exploring every inch of the verdant and fruitful banks of the world's longest river and the amazing culture that has flourished there to this day. Egypt Travel
Cruising the Nile – Nile Cruise Packages
The enjoyable way to visit Egypt is on a Nile cruise holiday’s packages. Currently, there are more than 400 cruise vessels traveling up and down the ancient waterway, and these range all the way from two- to three-day roughing-it voyages by felucca, Dahabiya Nile cruise to five-star, 60- to 80-cabin, luxury riverboats. Nile Cruise Holidays Packages

Cairo tours
Cairo, Egypt's international gateway is a cosmopolitan city filled with excellent accommodations and all the amenities of a major world capital. Lining the Nile in central Cairo are luxury hotels, ...
... embassies, government buildings, and palatial private homes. Just a few blocks away from the riverfront, and the city's multi-cultural history becomes evident in its many mosques, Coptic Christian churches, museums, and even a treasured synagogue. Egypt Tours and Travel

Giza Pyramids Tours and Travel
Pyramid of Khufu built around 2,500 BC of more than 2,500,000 limestone blocks, the size of this structure, built as the tomb of one man, is mind-boggling. The great pyramid to the King's Chamber where it is believed the royal mummy once rested. Now, it is a deathly still and bare chamber except for the stone outer sarcophagus that once cradled the mighty monarch's earthly remains surrounded by his treasures, long since plundered by ancient grave robbers. Egypt Tourism packages
Memphis and Saqqara
Also within easy driving distance from Cairo is Memphis, once the capital of the Old Kingdom and a fortress city of strategic importance controlling access to lower (Northern) Egypt and Upper (Southern) Egypt. Now it is a less than impressive and somewhat decaying town but of interest as the gate to the necropolis of Saqqara, site of the stepped pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser. While less impressive than the pyramids of Giza, it predates them and was the first of the monumental funerary pyramids
Memphis and Saqqara tours