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Three or four days
Cairo in a long weekend — Giza, Saqqara and the Grand Egyptian Museum without the Nile.
About these trips
Short breaks work here: you can see the essentials of Cairo in three nights, and direct flights from most of Europe make it a viable long weekend.
It is the right trip if you have been to Egypt before, or if you want to test whether a longer route is for you.
Three days covers Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum and Islamic Cairo. That is a full but sane schedule.
Four days adds Saqqara and Dahshur, where the Step Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid stand almost empty compared with Giza.
You will not reach Luxor and back in a long weekend. People try. The day trip flies at four in the morning, returns after nine at night, and ruins the day either side.
They suit people stopping over between flights, and people who have already seen Upper Egypt.
They also work as a first look. Cairo alone tells you whether you want the two-week version later.
Book the museum for a weekday morning. Weekends fill with school groups and the galleries lose their quiet.
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2 itineraries
5 days · Short break
Five days in Cairo and nowhere else: Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel, Coptic Cairo and Khan el-Khalili. Four nights in one hotel, and every sightseeing day run privately.
from US$935 / per person
5 days · Short break
Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, then a flight south for one night in Luxor covering both banks, and a flight back. Five days, two cities, both domestic flights in the price and every day guided privately.
from US$1,480 / per person
