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The route, the nights in each place, the travel days and what fills every day, with the facts to check before you book. Nothing is booked until you accept a written quote.
Days 1–2
Cairo & Giza
Our guide recommends at least 3 nights.
What to know before you go
- How long
- 3 nights recommended. Give Giza and the museum a full day. Add historic Cairo separately rather than racing across the city.
- What deserves priority
- Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The places you will see
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
The synagogue whose storeroom kept a medieval community's paperwork for centuries.
Opening hours 09:00–16:00, checked 3 September 2026 - Cairo Citadel
A medieval fortress above the whole of Cairo, and the seat of Egypt's rulers for more than six centuries.
Opening hours 08:00–17:00, checked 3 September 2026 - Dahshur
Where the Egyptians learned how to build a pyramid, by getting it wrong first.
Opening hours 08:00–17:00, checked 3 September 2026 - Giza Plateau
Three generations of kings built here; the plateau asks who did the building, and how they lived.
Opening hours 08:00–16:00, checked 3 September 2026 - Grand Egyptian Museum
A museum whose greatest collections belong to places you can see on the same day.
- Imhotep Museum
The museum at the gate of Saqqara, named after the first person in history to whom a great building can be credited.
Opening hours 08:00–17:00, checked 3 September 2026
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