Your days

• 
  Saqqara, Memphis and Dahshur: The First Pyramids

  • Saqqara
  • Serapeum of Saqqara
  • Imhotep Museum

  About 6 hours · moderate pace

  from USD 45Choose for day 1
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  Royal Mummies and Old Cairo: The Museum of Egyptian Civilization and Coptic Cairo

  • National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
  • Royal Mummies Hall
  • The Hanging Church

  Half day · about 5 hours · easy pace

  from USD 40Choose for day 1
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  Historic Cairo Private Day Tour: Citadel, Coptic Cairo and Khan el-Khalili

  • The Citadel
  • The Hanging Church
  • Ben Ezra Synagogue

  Full day · about 6–7 hours · moderate pace

  from USD 60Choose for day 1
• 
  Giza Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum

  • The Giza pyramids
  • The Sphinx
  • The Grand Egyptian Museum

  Full day · about 7 hours · moderate pace

  from USD 60Choose for day 1
• 
  Cairo Layover Tour: the Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum from the Airport

  • The Giza pyramids
  • The Sphinx
  • The Grand Egyptian Museum

  6–8 hours between flights · moderate pace

  from USD 100Choose for day 1
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  Giza Pyramids Half-Day Private Tour

  • The Giza pyramids
  • The Sphinx

  Half day · about 4 hours · easy pace

  from USD 55Choose for day 1
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  Inside the Great Pyramid: Giza Private Tour

  • The Giza pyramids
  • The Sphinx

  About 5 hours · active pace

  from USD 60Choose for day 1

A local experience alongside it

• Saqqara by quad and dirt bike

  About 5 hours with hotel transfers · from USD 100. Two to three hours on the open desert beside the Step Pyramid, on a machine chosen for your confidence, with the route checked first.

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• A tandem skydive over Egypt

  Half day with the transfer, briefing and waiting for the weather · from USD 280. Strapped to a certified instructor: the door, up to a minute of freefall, then a slow canopy ride down over the desert, the pyramids or the Red Sea.

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• Down inside the Red Pyramid

  Half day from Cairo · from USD 120. Climb to the entrance, then descend a low passage into Sneferu's corbelled chambers.

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Make this day better

• An Egyptian lunch without leaving the museum

  Lunch · 45–75 minutes · Grand Egyptian Museum. Use it between the plateau and the galleries, not after a rushed final room.

  Fits this day at its usual time.

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• The Tanoura show in Islamic Cairo

  Evening · About 90 minutes, plus arriving early · Wekalet El Ghouri, Islamic Cairo. On its performance evenings only, usually a few nights a week; we confirm the night.

  We ask for it; the time is confirmed in your quote.

  Ask us to arrange
• The Sound and Light show at the pyramids

  Evening · About an hour · Giza plateau, the Sphinx terrace. Evenings, with sessions in different languages; start times change with the season.

  We ask for it; the time is confirmed in your quote.

  Ask us to arrange