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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.
About this trip
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.
This is a short break route through Cairo, 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 3The Egyptian Museum first, then lunch at a local restaurant. Afterwards the Saladin Citadel, including the Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque inside it, and Coptic Cairo for the Hanging Church and the Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Day 4The National Museum of the Egyptian Civilization, where the mummies hall is the draw, then lunch at a local restaurant. The rest of the afternoon goes on Khan el-Khalili. Expect to be sold things.
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. Every Cairo sightseeing day 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, and the pace is yours to set.
No. International flights are excluded and you book your own. The trip stays in Cairo for all five days, so no domestic flights are involved either. You are met at Cairo airport on arrival and driven back there on day five.
Breakfast at the hotel every morning, and lunch at a local restaurant on days two, three and four. Dinner is never included, which is no great loss in Cairo, where you will want to eat out anyway. 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 catches people out: going inside one of the pyramids is a separate ticket bought on the day, not part of the price.
More than most people expect, and nearly all of it in the open. Giza is a large site on sand, the Citadel sits on a hill, and both museums are long walks indoors. Nothing is technically difficult and the vehicle waits at every stop, but count on several hours on your feet each touring day.
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.
For the headline sites, yes. This covers Giza, both major museums, the Citadel, Coptic Cairo and Khan el-Khalili, which is most of what people come for. It leaves out Saqqara, Dahshur and Alexandria, so if those matter to you, add days rather than compress what is here.
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.
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A real itinerary with prices, usually within 24 hours. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you say yes.
from US$935 / per person
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