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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.
About this trip
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.
This is a short break route through Cairo · Luxor, run privately unless you pick a group departure. Your guide is a licensed Egyptologist who lives on the route rather than flying in with the group.
Nothing here is fixed. Days can be added, dropped or reordered, and we will tell you honestly which optional sites are worth the extra ticket.
Your trip
Open any day for the full description. Every day can be changed before anything is booked.
Day 1Met at Cairo International Airport by your tour leader, who takes you to the hotel, sees you through check-in and goes through the itinerary with you to fix pick-up times for each day. Nothing else is scheduled.
Day 2The Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, with a short camel ride included, then lunch in a local restaurant. The afternoon is the Grand Egyptian Museum: the Tutankhamun treasures are the reason to go, and the building holds enough bazaars and gift shops to lose another hour in.
Day 3Collected from your Cairo hotel for the flight south, which is in the price. Met at Luxor airport and taken straight to the West Bank: the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple and the Colossi of Memnon, with lunch at a local restaurant. Then to your Luxor hotel for the night.
Day 4The East Bank after breakfast — Karnak and Luxor temples — and lunch at a local restaurant. A hot air balloon flight is offered as an option on this morning, at extra cost. Afterwards the flight back to Cairo, also in the price, and a last night there.
Day 5Breakfast, then the transfer to Cairo International Airport for your flight home.
Want this written up for your dates — travel times, what each day asks of you and where you would sleep? Ask us for the full 5-day plan. We send it before you commit to anything.
Included
Not included
Good to know
Private. All the sightseeing in Cairo and Luxor listed in this itinerary is run as a private tour, with your own English-speaking guide and an air-conditioned vehicle. You are not sharing the day with strangers.
The domestic ones are: Cairo to Luxor on day three and Luxor to Cairo on day four are both in the price. International flights to and from Egypt are excluded and you book those yourself. You are met at each airport, including Luxor.
It is enough for the two things this itinerary covers — the West Bank on the afternoon you land, the East Bank the next morning — and it is a hard, full day and a half. It leaves no room for Dendera, Abydos or a slow second look at Karnak. If those matter, this is the wrong length of trip.
Breakfast at the hotel every morning, and lunch at a local restaurant on days two, three and four. Dinners are not included at all, in either city. Drinks beyond the bottled water in the vehicle are extra.
International flights, your Egypt entry visa, extra meals and beverages, optional tours, tipping, and additional entry tickets. That last one is worth budgeting for: going inside one of the pyramids and Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings are both separate tickets bought at the site.
Day three is the demanding one. The Valley of the Kings means walking between tomb entrances and down into them, in the open, after a flight that morning. Giza is a large site on sand and Karnak is a long walk. Nothing is technically difficult, and the vehicle waits at every stop, but the pace is brisk for five days.
Tipping is excluded from the price and it is expected rather than optional. Allow US$10–15 per person per day for your guide and about US$5 per person per day for the driver, handed over separately. Carry small notes, because nobody has change.
Entry rules, opening hours, security advice and exchange rates all move. Check them at the source, not here.
Before you travel
You are quoted by the local company that runs the trip. No booking fee and no surcharge at the airport.
Not a tour escort with a flag. Our partner uses guides who have spent twenty years on the same temples.
Some tickets are. Some are a queue in the heat. We will tell you which before you pay for them.
Your guide, your driver, your pace. Group departures are labelled clearly on the card and the page.
Our partner is in Egypt, in Egyptian hours, and you are put in touch with them directly rather than through a chain.
Every itinerary is a starting point. Add days, drop sites, reorder — nothing is fixed until you say so.
Plan this trip
A real itinerary with prices, usually within 24 hours. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you say yes.
from US$1,480 / per person
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