Plan your Egypt
Your Egypt package
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 5–8
Cairo & Giza
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.
- Getting here
- The Red Sea to Cairo & Giza is a travel day: fly where you can and keep the rest of the day light.
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
Your days in Cairo & Giza
- 5Arrive from The Red SeaOpen: choose or leave to us
- 6A day hereOpen: choose or leave to us
- 7A day hereOpen: choose or leave to us
- 8DepartureOpen: choose or leave to us
Your Egypt, your pace
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