With the long-awaited opening of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt has returned to the top of many discerning travellers’ wish lists recently, and there has never been a better time to visit. Our tour will not only include the spectacular new museum and the treasures of Tutankhamun, now displayed in their full glory, but will also take in the a cruise on the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, as well as a stay in Luxor – known to the Ancient Egyptians as Thebes – and a guest lecture from the archaeologist Piers Litherland, who recently discovered the tomb of a missing pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings.