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Which pyramid ticket lets you go inside. Whether the Hurghada run to Luxor is worth the 4am start. What a cabin on the Nile actually costs. Reviews of every tour in Egypt.
Giza to Hurghada: the tours Egypt books most.
Every review →The days more travellers take than anything else in the country, and what each one actually asks of you.
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Luxor Valley of the Kings & Tutankhamun Tomb Trip
Review of the Hurghada to Luxor day trip, covering Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut, lunch, guides, heat, and value.
From · $76
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Pyramids & Great Sphinx Private Tour with Camel Ride
from $48
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Tour to Giza Pyramids and The Egyptian Museum
from $155
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Cairo and Giza Highlights Full-Day Tour
from $76
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Luxury Cruise Trip to Orange Bay with Lunch
from $53
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Luxor Day Trip from Hurghada Small Group & Tutankhamun Tomb
from $95
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Orange Bay Island Boat Trip w/ Breakfast and Lunch
from $34
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Royal Seascope Submarine Cruise with Snorkel Stop
from $21
Giza: choose how much pyramid you want.
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Half a day on the plateau, or a full one that adds Saqqara, Memphis and the museum. These three carry the most travellers; the full list splits the rest by how long you have and whether you want to go inside a chamber.
The plateau, the Sphinx, back by lunch
Half a morning on the sand: the three pyramids from the panorama point, the Sphinx from the causeway, and a driver who knows when the coaches arrive.
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Add Saqqara and the fallen colossus
The step pyramid at Saqqara came first by a century, and Memphis keeps Ramses II flat on his back under a roof. A full day, and the one that finally puts the pyramids in order.
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An hour on a camel at the panorama point
Everyone wants the shot with all three pyramids behind them. Go early, agree the price before you climb on, and keep the ride short.
See all 221 →Pyramids, painted tombs and the Red Sea reef.
Giza and the Sphinx, the tombs cut into the West Bank cliffs, a cabin between Aswan and Luxor, and coral twenty minutes off the beach at Hurghada. Most Egypt trips are built around these.
From an hour on a camel to a week on the Nile.
What a day out in Egypt costs, from the cheapest hour to the whole week. A morning at the pyramids comes in under dinner at home.
Camel hours at Giza, museum entries, an evening on the water in Cairo.
The full days: Luxor from the coast, Saqqara and Memphis, reef trips with lunch aboard.
Private guides, Abu Simbel by road, balloons at first light and cabins on the river.
Three nights on the Nile beat three days of coaches.
Aswan to Luxor with Kom Ombo and Edfu on the way, a cabin, a sun deck and meals between temples. The river does the driving while you sleep, and the tombs are a taxi ride from the mooring.
Three Egyptian mornings that exist nowhere else.
Museums and old stones you can find on any continent. A balloon over the Theban hills, a camel on the Giza sand at sunrise and four colossi cut into a cliff above Lake Nasser belong to Egypt alone.
The Luxor Balloon
Pickup is in the dark, the crossing to the West Bank is by motorboat, and the burners fire while the sky is still grey. From a thousand feet the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut’s terraces and the green strip along the river all sit in one frame. Flights are morning only, they end by breakfast, and wind cancels them outright.
- 1Hot Air Balloon Ride in Luxor Egypt with Transfers Included★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 4,319 reviews
- 24-Days Nile Cruise From Aswan To Luxor including Abu Simbel and Hot Air Balloon★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,142 reviews
- 34-Day 3-Night Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor&Abu Simbel+Balloon★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,023 reviews
The Giza Camel
The camels work the sand between the panorama point and the Sphinx, the way they have since the first tourists arrived by carriage. Ride early, when the light is long and the plateau is quiet. Agree the price and the length before you get on, and remember the camel stands up back legs first.
- 1Pyramids & Great Sphinx Private Tour with Camel Ride★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 6,335 reviews
- 2Desert Quad Bike Camel Ride with Optional GoPro★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,840 reviews
- 3Quad Bike, Buggy, and Camel Ride & Bedouin Village★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,738 reviews
Abu Simbel
Ramses II cut four twenty-metre versions of himself into a cliff above the Nile, and in the 1960s engineers sawed the whole temple into blocks and rebuilt it sixty metres higher to save it from Lake Nasser. It is three hours of desert road south of Aswan, and worth every one of them.
- 14-Days Nile Cruise From Aswan To Luxor including Abu Simbel and Hot Air Balloon★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,142 reviews
- 2Abu Simbel Temple Day Trip with Hotel Pickup★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 2,807 reviews
- 34-Day 3-Night Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor&Abu Simbel+Balloon★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,023 reviews
Hurghada’s reef starts twenty minutes offshore.
Egypt’s second half is underwater. Boats leave the marina after breakfast for Giftun and Orange Bay, dolphins turn up on the way, and the desert behind the hotels fills the afternoon with quad tracks.
In Upper Egypt, the afternoon is not for sightseeing.
Luxor and Aswan sit well past 40°C from May to September, and the tomb corridors hold the heat long after the sun drops. The local answer is an Egyptian shape to the day: temples and balloons at first light, a museum or a boat deck through the middle, the desert again at dusk.
The Egyptian bookings that will not wait for your hotel desk.
Most of Egypt can be arranged the night before from a lobby. These cannot. They run on dawn departures, long desert roads, daily ticket caps and fixed sailing days.
- 01Hot Air Balloon Ride in Luxor Egypt with Transfers IncludedBaskets lift at first light and only in the morning, and the winter flights fill days ahead.
- 02Abu Simbel Temple Day Trip with Hotel PickupA pre-dawn start and three hours of desert road each way from Aswan, so seats are set the day before.
- 034-Days Nile Cruise From Aswan To Luxor including Abu Simbel and Hot Air BalloonBoats sail on fixed days rather than on demand, so the cabin decides the shape of your week.
- 04Private ViP all-inclusive Giza Pyramids,Sphinx,Inside PyramidEntry to the chamber inside the Great Pyramid is capped each day and split between a morning and an afternoon release.
Cairo does its best work after sunset.
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Nile Dinner Cruise with Belly Dancer Show with Pickup
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Morning or Sunset Sights Guided Tour with Shopping
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