Travel Review: Luxury Egypt Vacation, Cairo, Aswan & Luxor, History, Culture

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John M.

4.27.2022

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Which Country (Countries) did you visit on this trip?

Egypt

Your overall comments on the trip and the travel company:

Overall, our travel specialist did an excellent job organizing our trip to Cairo, Aswan and Luxor. Every detail of pickup, transport, hotel check-in and getting tested for Covid before our return to the USA was done superbly. Our travel specialist arranged two guides, in Cairo and one in Luxor and Aswan.
One of our guides in Cairo was perhaps the best guide my wife and I have ever met on any vacation around the world. Absolutely full of knowledge and stories about Cairo, Giza, museums and the area, a true Egyptologist, she was bursting to tell us facts that hugely enriched our visit. And she listened and made adjustments to daily plans to help us see more than just the wonderful array of famous historical treasures. In just four days together, we came to think of her as a friend, not just an excellent guide.
For our time in Aswan and Luxor, our guide was a very capable guide. I do wish he had shown more interest in teaching us about the wonderful places we visited and passed through.
Our time in Egypt, with the help of our travel specialist was one of the very best vacation experiences that my wife and I have ever been lucky enough to enjoy.

What were the most enjoyable or memorable parts of your trip?

Every temple, pyramid or tomb we visited would be enough to be the highlight of a trip, and we saw so many in such little time. That was wonderful planning by our travel specialist. Also, going into several tombs that required "extra tickets" gave us a chance to see amazing beauty. Thank you--we would have not known to arrange the "extra tickets" and would have missed so much. The museums of Cairo--Cairo and National-- were amazing and beautiful, especially with the extra knowledge shared by our guide. Also high on our list were dinners on the streets of Cairo (on our own) at small storefront restaurants and coffee shops and walking through souks in Luxor and Cairo.
It's small compared to the wonders of Egypt, but we really enjoyed the wonderful food in local restaurants.

If you could take your trip again, what would you do differently?

If we could do it again, mostly I'd want to add more days to the trip so that we could see more. (We had 12 days.) Also, I'd like to have had more chance to see the daily life of the Egyptian people, including but not limited to visiting the markets they visit for food and vegetables and daily needs, but also just walking through towns and cities.
We traveled during Ramadan, so we joined our guides in not eating a midday meal, and next time hope we could eat more meals at small restaurants.

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