EGYPT · LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
The last wonder of the ancient world.
Five thousand years of pharaohs, the temples strung along the Nile, and a coast of coral reefs on the Red Sea. Cairo and Giza, Luxor and Aswan, Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh, and the desert in between.
Only in Egypt
Three wonders you will find nowhere else.
Beaches and boat trips you can find in a hundred countries. The Great Pyramid, the painted tombs at Luxor and a slow cruise between the temples of the Nile belong to this one. Build the trip around them.
Giza
The Last Ancient Wonder
The Great Pyramid is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world still standing. Forty-five centuries on, the three pyramids and the Sphinx sit right on the edge of the city. You can walk up to the stone, run your hand along it, and climb into the burial chambers cut deep inside.
- 1 Cairo: Pyramids & Great Sphinx Private Tour with Camel Ride
- 2 Tour to Giza Pyramids and The Egyptian Museum
- 3 From Hurghada: Cairo and Giza Highlights Full-Day Tour
Luxor
The Valley of the Kings
On the west bank at Luxor the pharaohs cut their tombs into one desert valley and painted the walls floor to ceiling. Tutankhamun, Seti, the Ramesses kings. Nowhere else on earth holds this many royal tombs, and the colour inside them has barely faded in three thousand years.
- 1 Luxor Day Trip from Hurghada Small Group & Tutankhamun Tomb
- 2 Small group Hurghada to Luxor, Valley of the Kings by Van
- 3 4-Day 3-Night Nile Cruise from Aswan to Luxor&Abu Simbel+Balloon
Luxor to Aswan
A Cruise Down the Nile
The stretch of river between Luxor and Aswan is the journey every traveller pictures. Temples at Edfu and Kom Ombo come right down to the water, feluccas drift past on the current, and the desert begins the moment the green riverbank ends. Three or four nights, one temple to the next.
- 1 Cairo: Dinner Cruise on the Nile River with Entertainment
- 2 Cairo: Nile Sunset Dinner Cruise, Show & Optional Transfer
- 3 Luxury Felucca on the Nile with Lunch
The Red Sea
There is a whole other Egypt underwater.
Past the temples and the desert, Egypt's eastern coast drops into some of the clearest water on the planet. Coral walls and wartime wrecks off Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh, dolphins on the house reefs, and dive boats heading out to Ras Mohammed at first light. Most of the country is thousands of years old. This part is alive.
Explore the Red Sea →Start here
If you only book one, make it this.
Egypt's single most popular experience. If you are not sure where to begin planning, begin here.
The classics
Egypt's Most Popular Tours
Giza, Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and the Red Sea. The tours travellers book before anything else.
By region
Pick your part of Egypt.
Each one is a different trip. Cairo for the pyramids and the museum. Luxor for the temples and the tombs. Aswan for the Nile and Abu Simbel. Hurghada and Sharm for the reefs.
By experience
Or choose how you want to travel.
A Nile cruise if you want the classic journey. A balloon if you want Luxor at sunrise. Diving and snorkelling on the Red Sea, quad bikes into the desert, and the museums when you want the treasures up close.
Plan the trip
Egypt is really three trips in one.
Most first visits split three ways. The pharaohs around Cairo, the temples along the Nile, and the reefs on the Red Sea. Here is how each one feels, and where to start.
Sunrise over Luxor
Up before the sun, over the Valley of the Kings.
Luxor wakes in the dark. The balloons lift off the west bank just before sunrise, and for an hour you drift over the temples, the tombs and the green edge of the Nile while the desert turns gold below. It is the one morning of the trip worth losing sleep over.
- 1 Luxor: Hot Air Balloon Ride over Luxor Relics
- 2 Hurghada: 2-Day Luxor Tour with Hotel, Balloon, & Boat Ride
- 3 Luxury Sunrise Balloon Ride in Luxor with Hotel Pickup
Beyond the green
Out into the desert.
Quad bikes over the dunes behind Hurghada, a Bedouin dinner under more stars than you have ever seen, and the white rock of the Western Desert. Three ways to swap the river for the sand.
Where the treasures ended up
Inside the museums.
Tutankhamun's gold, the royal mummies, and the new Grand Egyptian Museum out at the edge of Giza. Three collections that hold what the tombs gave up.
Mask on
Under the Red Sea.
Coral gardens a fin-kick off the beach, dolphins on the house reef, and the wartime wrecks out in the blue. The clearest, warmest snorkelling and diving in the country.
On the river
Three days down the Nile.
What a Luxor to Aswan cruise actually looks like, one temple at a time, the way most first trips do it.
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