Tour Overview
This private 2-day trip flies you from Marsa Alam to Cairo and gives the capital two full days. Day one covers the Giza Pyramids, the Great Sphinx, the Valley Temple and the Grand Egyptian Museum, then Al-Muizz Street and Khan el-Khalili before a night in a 5-star hotel. Day two takes you to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, the Citadel of Saladin, the Muhammad Ali Mosque and the royal mummies at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, then you fly to Hurghada and drive back to Marsa Alam.
Tour Highlights
- See Cairo properly without a long road journey: the flights, a 5-star hotel night and every transfer are arranged for you.
- Stand beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu and the Great Sphinx, then visit the Grand Egyptian Museum with its complete Tutankhamun collection.
- Walk medieval Al-Muizz Street and shop in Khan el-Khalili on the first afternoon, when the old city is at its liveliest.
- Explore the old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, home for over a century to the largest collection of pharaonic antiquities ever assembled.
- Look out over Cairo from Saladin's Citadel and the Muhammad Ali Mosque, then meet the kings and queens of Egypt in the Royal Mummies Hall.
Tour Route
Is 2 days enough to see Cairo from Marsa Alam?
Two days cover Cairo's essentials: the Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel, the royal mummies and the old bazaar. You will not see Saqqara, Memphis or Coptic Cairo, but you get a first visit that is complete and not rushed.
What is the difference between the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Egyptian Museum?
The Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza is the new home of Tutankhamun's treasures and of large royal statues, shown in modern galleries. The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir is the older building, with dense rooms of objects from every era. On this trip you visit both, one on each day.
Seeing them together is useful: the new museum gives you the big picture and the famous pieces, while the old one shows how much else survives, from wooden models to painted coffins.
What should you wear for Cairo's mosques and museums?
Choose light clothing that covers your shoulders and knees, since you enter the Muhammad Ali Mosque and pass mosques on Al-Muizz Street. Women may want a scarf for the mosque. Wear comfortable closed shoes for the sand at Giza and the long museum floors.
How is this different from the other Cairo trips from Marsa Alam?
The Cairo day trip by plane matches day one of this trip and flies you home the same evening. This 2-day version keeps that first day and adds a 5-star hotel night and a second day for the Egyptian Museum, the Citadel and the Royal Mummies Hall.
If you want ancient Thebes as well as the Pyramids, the 2-day Cairo and Luxor trip drives you to Luxor first and then flies you to Cairo. For more ideas in the capital, see our Cairo day tours.
Tour Itinerary
Both days are full: day one is ancient Giza and medieval Cairo, and day two is museums and the Citadel before the flight back to the coast.
A private air-conditioned car takes you from your hotel to Marsa Alam airport for your flight to Cairo. At Cairo airport your private Egyptologist guide meets you, and you drive together to the Giza Plateau. Bring a small overnight bag, since you spend the night in Cairo.
The three pyramids of Giza were raised for the 4th-dynasty kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure around 4,500 years ago. Your guide explains how the Great Pyramid was built, then leads you to the Sphinx and to Khafre's Valley Temple, built from massive granite blocks at the foot of the causeway.
The Grand Egyptian Museum stands close to the plateau and was built to show Egypt's treasures on a modern scale. Your guide takes you to the colossal Ramesses II statue in the atrium, the Grand Staircase lined with royal sculpture, and the galleries that display Tutankhamun's tomb treasures together.
After an included lunch at a restaurant with a view of the Pyramids or the Nile, you drive into Islamic Cairo. Al-Muizz Street was the spine of the Fatimid city, lined with mosques and madrasas, and next to it lies the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, trading since the Mamluk era.
At the end of the day your guide takes you to your 5-star hotel to check in. The evening is free, so you can rest, have dinner at the hotel or go out in the city on your own. Dinner is not part of the price.
After breakfast you check out and meet your guide for the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, opened in the early 20th century. Its crowded halls hold statues, coffins and everyday objects from every period of ancient Egypt, and your guide picks out the pieces that tell the story best.
Lunch is included at a local restaurant. Then you climb to the Citadel, the fortress Saladin began in the 12th century on a spur above the city. Inside stands the Ottoman-style Muhammad Ali Mosque, known as the Alabaster Mosque, with wide views over Cairo from its terrace.
Your last visit is the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat. Its main galleries trace Egypt from prehistory to modern times, and the Royal Mummies Hall holds kings and queens such as Ramesses II and Hatshepsut, moved here in the 2021 Pharaohs' Golden Parade.
Your guide takes you to Cairo airport for the included flight to Hurghada. A private air-conditioned car meets you on arrival and drives you south along the Red Sea coast to your hotel in Marsa Alam, where the trip ends.
What's Included
What the tour price covers, and what to plan for separately.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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It starts at your hotel in Marsa Alam, where a private car picks you up and takes you to the airport for the flight to Cairo. It ends at the same hotel on day two, after the flight from Cairo to Hurghada and the included road transfer south along the coast.
The price includes the domestic flights to Cairo and back to Hurghada, one night in a 5-star Cairo hotel with breakfast, lunch on both days, a qualified Egyptologist guide, private air-conditioned transfers, bottled water, entrance fees to the sites in the program, and taxes. Dinner and tips are not included.
Yes. The guide and car are only for you and your companions. The per-person price falls as the group grows, because the guide, car and transfers are shared, and it changes by season, since flights and Cairo hotels cost more in winter and over Christmas and New Year.
Yes. After check-in the evening is yours. You can rest at the hotel or take a taxi to a restaurant or the Nile corniche. Ask your guide for suggestions near your hotel. Keep your passport safe at the hotel, but carry a copy and your hotel card when you go out.
Yes. Avicon Travel is a Class "A" travel agency licensed by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism under License No. 1962 and registered since 2010. Our office and team are in Karnak, Luxor, so the guides, drivers and cars on this tour are our own local team, not a booking desk abroad.
