Sightseeing Tours

Best for history buffs · Full day, 8 hours — Djoser's Step Pyramid, then Dahshur's Bent and Red Pyramids. No Giza.

Best for tight schedules · Half day, 4 hours — Three pyramids, the Sphinx, plus the Valley Temple most half-days skip.

Best for first-timers · Full day, 8 hours — Morning at the pyramids, afternoon with their contents at the new GEM.

Best for repeat visitors · Long day, 12 hours — Long drive each way for the catacombs, Qaitbay Citadel and a sea lunch.

Best for history buffs · Full day, 8 hours — Two museums, no pyramids: the new GEM and Tahrir Square's original.

Best for first-timers · Full day, 8 hours — Giza's polished pyramids, then the older stepped prototype at Saqqara.

Best for couples · Evening, 3 hours — Dinner, live music and a belly-dance show while the boat crosses central Cairo.

Best for families with kids · Evening, 2 hours — Headsets in your language narrate the Sphinx while it stands lit up.

Best for repeat visitors · Very long day, 16 hours — Sixteen hours south to Akhenaten's abandoned capital at Amarna.

Best for families with kids · About 2 hours — reefs and fish through windows below the waterline, no swimming at all.

Best for active travelers · Afternoon into evening, 8 hours — dune bashing, a camel ride, then BBQ under desert stars.

Best for couples · Evening, 2 hours — you walk the temple grounds as the show narrates, no seated rows.

Best for first-timers · Half day, 4 hours — Karnak and Luxor Temple, still linked by the Avenue of Sphinxes.

Best for history buffs · Half day, 5 hours — tombs in the Valley of the Kings, then Hatshepsut's terraces.

Best for photographers · Sunrise, 3 hours — lift-off is before dawn, so the Valley lights up beneath you.

Best for short on time · Full day, 8 hours — both banks in one day if Luxor is a single stop on your route.

Best for first-timers · Half day, 4 hours — Philae was moved stone by stone to escape the rising water.

Best for history buffs · Full day by road — the whole temple was cut up and moved above Lake Nasser.

Best for families with kids · Afternoon, 3 hours — a sunset sail, then painted Nubian houses kids can walk into.

Best for repeat visitors · Full day, 8 hours — Kom Ombo's double temple and Edfu, reached by road instead of by boat.

Best for active travelers · Full day boat, 8 hours — two gulfs meet here, which is why the park's reefs are this dense.

Best for photographers · Full day boat, 8 hours — four reefs off Tiran, though the currents ask for a confident swimmer.

Best for first-timers · Late afternoon, 4 hours — ride pillion if you'd rather not drive; Sinai hills glow at sunset.

Best for active travelers · Overnight, sunrise hike — a demanding night climb to reach Mount Sinai's summit by sunrise.

Best for families with kids · Full day boat, 8 hours — shallow reefs in a marine reserve, gentle for first-timers.

Best for active travelers · Late afternoon, 4 hours — quad tracks over the Eastern Desert, then a Bedouin camp dinner.

Best for non-swimmers · About 2 hours — Hurghada's reefs through big windows, with departures all day if plans shift.

Best for families with kids · Full day boat, 8 hours — Sha'ab El Erg reef, where wild spinner dolphins sometimes pass.

Best for couples · Full day boat, 8 hours — Samadai's horseshoe lagoon is Egypt's steadiest bet for spinner dolphins.

Best for experienced divers · Full day boat, 8 hours — sheer offshore walls and whitetip sharks, if the sea allows.

Best for active travelers · Late afternoon, 4 hours — sand tracks and rocky wadis inland, far quieter than Hurghada.