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Fayoum

Days 1–4 · 4 nights

What to know about Fayoum

How long: A day from Cairo, or a night. About two hours from Cairo each way. A day covers Wadi El Rayan or the Valley of the Whales; a night by Lake Qarun lets you see both without rushing.
What deserves priority: Wadi El Rayan's lakes and waterfalls, and the whale fossils of Wadi El Hitan.

Wadi el-Hitan
A desert valley of fossil whales with legs, from a sea that covered Egypt forty million years ago.

Day 5 · 1 night

What to know about Nile & Aswan

How long: 4–5 nights recommended. Temples by day and the river between them: choose a boat by its name and its hours ashore, and the Nile does the rest.
What deserves priority: A cruise or dahabiya, Philae and time in Aswan.

Aswan High Dam
The monument that ended ancient Egypt's calendar.
Edfu Temple
The temple of Horus, whose walls are a library turned outwards.
Open 06:00–17:00, checked 3 September 2026
Elephantine
A granite island at the first cataract, where Egypt used to end.
Open 08:00–16:00, checked 3 September 2026
Kom Ombo Temple
A temple built twice over, side by side, for the crocodile and the falcon.
Open 07:00–21:00, checked 15 September 2026
Lake Nasser
An archive of ancient Nubia that nobody can visit.
Nubian Village
A living Nubian village on the west bank at Aswan, facing the island of Sehel.

Days 6–7 · 1 night

What to know about Abu Simbel

How long: From an Aswan base. Ramses II's colossal temple on Lake Nasser, reached from Aswan by an early road trip of about six hours there and back, or by a short flight.
What deserves priority: The temples of Ramses II and Nefertari.

Abu Simbel
Two temples cut into a cliff above the Nile, taken apart and rebuilt higher to save them.
Open 06:00–17:00, checked 3 September 2026

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