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Cairo & Gizathen Alexandria
5 nights · 6 days · As a couple
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Cairo & Giza
Days 1–3 · 3 nightsWhat to know about Cairo & Giza
- How long
- 3 nights recommended. Give Giza and the museum a full day together, then a second day for historic Cairo's mosques, churches and bazaar.
- What deserves priority
- Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Grand Egyptian Museum.
- Al-Mu'izz Street
The main street of the Fatimid court city, where for eight centuries anyone with power built to be seen.
Open 09:00–17:00 · checked 29 September 2026
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
The synagogue whose storeroom kept a medieval community's paperwork for centuries.
Open 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.
Open 08:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026
- Dahshur
Where the Egyptians learned how to build a pyramid, by getting it wrong first.
Open 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.
Open 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.
- Day 1Arrival in Cairo & GizaTime reserved for arrivalSee day
- Day 2Royal Mummies and Old CairoSuggested · Half day · about 5 hoursThe pharaohs built for eternity, and here, three thousand years later, they lie in a new museum on the edge of Old Cairo.See day
- Day 3Saqqara, Memphis and DahshurSuggested · About 6 hoursSee how pyramid building developed before Giza, on a day out from Cairo.See day
Alexandria
Days 4–6 · 2 nightsWhat to know about Alexandria
- How long
- A long day from Cairo, or a night. Catacombs, a Roman theatre and the Mediterranean seafront. A day trip from Cairo is about six hours on the road in total; a night gives you an evening on the Corniche.
- What deserves priority
- The catacombs, the Roman theatre and Qaitbay Fort.
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria's modern library, built as a successor to the most famous library of the ancient world.
- Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa
A tomb built for the rich that grew into a city of the dead.
- Kom el-Dikka
Roman Alexandria at street level, uncovered in the middle of the modern city.
Open 09:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026
- Pompey's Pillar
A single column of red granite, standing alone among the ruins of one of Alexandria's great temples.
- Qaitbay Fort
A Mamluk fortress built on the ruins of the Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders.
Open 09:00–20:00 · checked 3 September 2026
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