Our Cruise Itinerary - Semiramis II

Here I share our daily cruise itinerary for your reference in preparing your travel.

Please note, the itinerary may varies from cruise to cruise and package offered by the tour agent.

Our cruise, Semiramis II starts from Aswan and ends in Luxor for 4 days 3 nights journey.

Tue:
1130 – Arrives Aswan Airport from Cairo
1200 – 1430 – Tour High Dam and Philae Temple (Slightly different than our package due to miscommunication between tour guide in Cairo and Aswan)
1500 – 1530 - Checks in Nile Cruise, Semiramis II
1530 – 1630 – Enjoy some snacks provided by the cruise (special request because we missed our lunch)
1630 – 1800 – Tour Aswan town. This was outside the package since no activities arranged on that afternoon. In Aswan, you can find gifts and souvenir shop not to far from river bank where the cruises dock, about 5 to 10 minutes walk. There is also Mac Donald by the river bank.
1800 – 1930 – Relax and enjoy Nile river view from deck
1930 – 2100 – Dinner provided by the cruise (Part of the package)
2100 – 2330 – Nubian party joints with other performances

Wed:
0700 – Wake up call
0800 – 1000 – Breakfast
1000 – 1130 – Felucca sailing
1130 – 1300 – Relax, own activities
1300 – 1400 – Lunch
1400 – 1730 - Sailing to Kom Ombo
1730 – 1830 – Tour Kom Ombo Temple (It was more than 100 cruises docked with thousand of tourist visiting Kom Ombo)
1830 – Continue sailing to Edfu
1930 – 2100 – Dinner
2100 – 0000 – DJ in the Bar, dance floor open

Thu:
0600 – Wake up call
0700 – 0900 - Tour Edfu temple. Took horse carriage riding to Edfu temple
0900 – Continue sailing to Luxor
0900 – 1000 – Breakfast
1200 – 1300 – Passing the Esna water lock
1300 – 1400 – Lunch
1600 – 1630 – Tea time
1730 – Arrived Luxor. According to plan, we should tour Luxor temple but we took city tour instead. It was also outside the package. Paid 100LE for the taxi, we went to gifts and souvenir shops then dinner at Pizza Hut.
2100 – Back to cruise
2130 – 2330 - Belly Dance and Tanoura

Fri
0700 – Wake up call
0800 – 0900 – Breakfast
0900 – 1100 – Tour Valley of the kings
1100 – 1300 – Tour Karnak Temple
1300 – 1430 – Tour Luxor Temple
1430 – 1500 - Back to Cruise and check out
1500 – 1600 – Boat ride (A compliments from our tour guide, Badawi. Thanks)
1600 – To Luxor airport for a flight to Cairo.

Notes:
** Please note drinks are not included in breakfast, lunch and dinner. Drinking water and soda drinks cost around 9LE each. We spent about 300LE in the cruise for 5 of us including tips.
** If you travel with kids, make sure you bring swimming costums and something for them to play. Otherwise they will get really bored.
** Something to munch also important. No grocery shop in cruise. You can only get drinks from the bar.

Tanoura Dance in Semiramis II (Video )

As promised, enjoy Tanoura Dance, one of the entertainment in the Semiramis II Nile Cruise.

El Tanoura, activity in Nile Cruise

Spinning Dance or they call it El Tanoura is the entertainment on the second night in the cruise. Started around 8.30pm after dinner.

Tanoura dance is a dance performed by a man with a long skirt, few layer of skirts, while playing with something on his arm. The skirt starts to open up to his waist when he starts spinning. (Don't worry; he is wearing a long pant under the skirt.) :0

He never stops spinning for more that 30 minutes.

Here are some pictures of El Tanoura dance. This guy was really good. He can spin for more than 30 minutes non- stop without problem. I will post some of the video once I connected to better bandwidth. Watch Tanoura video here.

Another activity in the cruise is a Nubian Party





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Nubian Party in Semiramis II

On the first night after dinner in the cruise, we enjoy the Nubian party. This is the video.

Another activity n the cruise is El Tanoura dance

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Leisure moments in Nile Cruise

Picture of some activities while cruising the nile. Kids enjoy the pool very much.