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Fayoum

Days 1–5 · 5 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.

Days 6–8 · 3 nights

What 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

Days 9–10 · 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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