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8 days · Nile & Red Sea
No boat on this one. Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, a night in Luxor for both banks, two nights on the Red Sea, then back to Cairo for the Citadel, Coptic Cairo and the Royal Mummies.
About this trip
No boat on this one. Giza and the Grand Egyptian Museum, a night in Luxor for both banks, two nights on the Red Sea, then back to Cairo for the Citadel, Coptic Cairo and the Royal Mummies.
This is a nile & red sea route through Cairo · Luxor · Hurghada, 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, taken to the hotel and walked through the plan for the week, including the pick-up time for each day. Nothing else is scheduled.
Day 2The Pyramids and the Sphinx in the morning, with a short camel ride included, then lunch at a local restaurant. The afternoon goes to the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Tutankhamun treasures. Back to the hotel afterwards.
Day 3Collected from the hotel and flown south to Luxor — that flight is in the price. Straight to the west bank for the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon, with lunch at a local restaurant. On to your Luxor hotel for the night.
Day 4The east bank in the morning: Karnak and Luxor temples, then lunch locally. After that the road east to Hurghada and your hotel, with dinner there. A balloon flight over the west bank is offered here as a paid extra.
Day 5Nothing booked. The beach, or one of the optional excursions the hotel and the operator can arrange. All three meals are covered by the soft all-inclusive board.
Day 6Breakfast and a last morning at the coast, then the transfer to Hurghada airport and the flight to Cairo, which is included. Met on arrival and taken to your hotel.
Day 7A full Cairo day: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and the Royal Mummies Hall, then the Citadel of Saladin and the alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali. Lunch at a local restaurant, then Coptic Cairo — the Hanging Church and the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Day 8Breakfast, then a transfer to Cairo International whenever your flight goes.
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 8-day plan. We send it before you commit to anything.
Included
Not included
Good to know
No. Luxor is one night in a hotel, not a sailing, and the Red Sea days replace the river entirely. You see both Luxor banks in a day and a half, which is the same ground a cruise covers there, but you miss Edfu, Kom Ombo and Aswan. If the boat is the point of the trip, take one of the cruise itineraries instead.
Two of the three moves are flights and both are in the price: Cairo to Luxor on day 3 and Hurghada to Cairo on day 6. The Luxor to Hurghada leg is a road transfer, also included. International flights into and out of Egypt are not.
It is a desert road crossing from the Nile valley to the coast, about 290 km and roughly four hours. It happens on day 4, after the Karnak and Luxor Temple morning and lunch, so the sightseeing is behind you before you get in the vehicle. The transfer is private and air-conditioned.
The operator specifies that the Cairo sightseeing is run as private tours, with your own guide and driver. All transfers on the trip are private and air-conditioned, and you have an English-speaking guide on your touring days. If the arrangement in Luxor matters to you, ask the operator to confirm it in writing when you send your request.
It is a stop rather than a beach holiday. You get one properly free day plus a free morning, on soft all-inclusive board, which is enough to stop moving and swim but not enough to build a week around. Anyone who wants the Red Sea as half the trip should be looking at a longer itinerary.
International flights, your Egypt visa, extra meals and drinks, optional tours, tipping, and additional entry tickets. That last one catches people out: going inside one of the pyramids, or into the tomb of Tutankhamun, is a separate ticket bought at the gate.
Tipping is excluded from the price and it is a real line in an Egypt budget rather than loose change. Reckon on US$10–15 per person per day for your guide and about US$5 for the driver. There is no cruise crew box on this trip, but hotel and resort staff expect small notes too. Break large notes whenever you get the chance.
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$2,040 / per person
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