Met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.
Cairo, Fayoum, Luxor & the Red Sea — 10 Days
10
Days
Overview
This is the route for people who have read about Egypt and want the parts that are usually left out. Fayoum is ninety minutes from Cairo and almost nobody goes: a lake older than the pyramids, waterfalls in the desert, and a valley of fossil whales that walked on land forty million years ago.
Around it, the essentials done properly — Giza, Saqqara and Dahshur where you can watch the pyramid being invented across three reigns, Luxor on both banks with time to spare, and four days at the end on the Red Sea.
Ten days, one guide, and long enough that nothing has to be rushed.
Slower, or differently — always possible. Tell us how you like to travel and we will rebuild the day around it.
Trip Highlights
Tour Itinerary
Day 1 :
Arrival in Cairo
The plateau in the morning while it is cool, the museum afterwards. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 3 :
Saqqara and Dahshur
The Step Pyramid of Djoser, then the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid at Dahshur — three attempts at the same problem, fifty years apart. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 4 :
Into the Fayoum
South-west to the oasis. Lake Qarun in the afternoon, and a first look at the pottery village of Tunis on the escarpment. Overnight in Fayoum.
Day 5 :
Wadi El Rayan and Wadi El Hitan
The desert waterfalls, then the Valley of the Whales — a UNESCO site where the skeletons lie where they fell. Overnight in Fayoum.
Day 6 :
Back to Cairo and south to Luxor
A morning in the oasis, the drive back, and the evening flight to Luxor. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 7 :
Luxor, East Bank
Karnak in the late afternoon and Luxor Temple lit after dark, with the middle of the day free. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 8 :
Luxor, West Bank
Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut’s temple and Medinet Habu, early. In the afternoon, the drive across to the Red Sea. Overnight on the coast.
Day 9 :
Red Sea
A day with nothing in it. Snorkelling, a boat, or a chair and the water — we can arrange any of them. Overnight on the coast.
Day 10 :
Departure
Transfer to Hurghada airport, or onward travel if you are continuing.
Costs
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