Cairo 2 Days by Plane · shared
From $354 / person2 days
Cairo in a Day from Hurghada — the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Pyramids & the Sphinx
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Itinerary
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Pickup location:
Hurghada
03:00 (approx — exact time will be shared)
- Desert road to Cairo· 5 hours
Cairo
Arrive 09:15·~4h here
Grand Egyptian Museum
3 hours hereArrive 12:45
Lunch at a local restaurant
1 hour hereGiza
Arrive 14:15·~1h 30m here
Pyramids of Giza & panorama
1 hour 30 min here- Van· 25 minutes
Main stop
For reference only. Itineraries are subject to change.
Transportation
Transportation from Hurghada to Cairo (about 5 h 30 min)
Includes
- Entrance fees: Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza plateau, Valley Temple
- Lunch at a local restaurant
- Bottled water on board
- Entry inside a pyramid (buy at the gate)
- Camel and horse rides
- Drinks with lunch
- Tips and personal expenses
Important information
What to bring
- Passport or ID copy
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Sunscreen and a hat
- Camera
Know before you go
- This is a shared departure: the programme runs in a fixed order and the group moves together. You cannot reorder, add or skip a stop — that is what keeps the price at this level. Our private Cairo tours change freely.
- Three main sights in a day, no more. A fourth turns the day into a march between car parks. Here they are the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Giza plateau, and lunch.
- The Grand Egyptian Museum gets three hours. It holds around 120,000 artefacts and the complete Tutankhamun collection, so the day is built around it rather than fitting it in.
- Dahshur is not on this trip. Adding it to a road day means cutting the museum to about 90 minutes — it belongs on the two-day version.
- Five hours on the road each way, with one comfort stop near Zafarana. Pickup is 03:00, and 20–40 minutes earlier from Safaga and Soma Bay.
Frequently asked questions
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Places you'll visit on this trip
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