Tour Overview
This private 3-day Cairo trip from Luxor by plane gives you time to see the capital properly. You fly from Luxor to Cairo, spend two nights in a 5-star hotel, and visit the Giza Pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum and Saqqara on day one, then the Egyptian Museum, Old Cairo, the royal mummies and Khan El Khalili on day two. Flights, guide, transfers, two lunches and entrance fees are included.
Tour Highlights
- Explore the Giza plateau with your own Egyptologist: the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Sphinx with its Dream Stela, and Khafre's granite Valley Temple.
- See the full Tutankhamun collection and the colossal Ramses II at the Grand Egyptian Museum, the largest museum devoted to ancient Egypt.
- Visit the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, designed by the architect Imhotep around 2650 BC and the oldest large stone building in Egypt.
- Walk through Coptic Cairo, from the Hanging Church to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and visit the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas, the first mosque in Egypt.
- Meet the pharaohs themselves in the Royal Mummies Hall of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, then end the day in Khan El Khalili bazaar.
Tour Route
Is 3 days in Cairo from Luxor enough?
For the main sights, yes. Day one covers Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum and Saqqara; day two covers the Egyptian Museum, Old Cairo, the royal mummies and the medieval bazaar. Day three is a travel day. You see the essential Cairo without the rush of a one-day flying visit.
What is the difference between the three Cairo museums on this trip?
Each has its own job. The Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza holds Tutankhamun's full collection. The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square keeps the older national collection. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat tells Egypt's story across every period and houses the royal mummies.
Where do you stay, and which meals are included?
You spend two nights in a 5-star hotel in Cairo, with breakfast on days two and three. Lunch is included on both sightseeing days: on day one at a restaurant overlooking the Pyramids or the Nile, on day two at a local restaurant in Cairo. Dinners are not included, so your evenings are free.
What else can you combine with this trip?
With your evenings free, you could add a dinner cruise on the Nile in Cairo. Our Cairo travel guide covers the city in more depth, and our Egypt tour packages combine Cairo with Luxor, Aswan and a Nile cruise in one trip.
Tour Itinerary
Two full sightseeing days in Cairo, with the flight from Luxor at the start and a slower final morning before the flight back.
A driver collects you from your Luxor hotel or Nile cruise for the domestic flight to Cairo. Your private Egyptologist guide meets you at Cairo Airport and takes you by air-conditioned car straight to Giza, so sightseeing starts as soon as you land.
The Great Pyramid of Khufu, about 146 meters high when it was finished, is the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Nearby stand the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx with Thutmose IV's Dream Stela between its paws, and Khafre's Valley Temple of polished granite.
Next to the plateau, the Grand Egyptian Museum shows the complete Tutankhamun collection together for the first time, with the 11-meter Ramses II in the main hall and the Hanging Obelisk at the entrance. Your guide focuses on the galleries that matter most.
Lunch is at a restaurant overlooking the Pyramids or the Nile and is included in the price. It is a proper sit-down break between the museum and the short drive south to Saqqara, where you spend the rest of the afternoon.
At Saqqara, the Step Pyramid of King Djoser rises in six stages to about 62 meters. Built in the Third Dynasty, it is where Egyptian pyramid building began. Afterward you check in to your 5-star hotel in Cairo for the night.
After breakfast, your guide takes you to the Egyptian Museum, opened downtown more than a century ago. Its two floors hold statues, coffins, jewelry and papyri from every period of pharaonic history, much of it still in the original wooden cases.
Lunch is at a local restaurant in Cairo and is included in the price. It is a good chance to try everyday Egyptian dishes such as koshari, molokhia or grilled meats, away from the busy tourist sites of the morning.
The Hanging Church takes its name from its nave, built over the gatehouse of the Roman fortress of Babylon. Nearby are the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the Cairo Geniza manuscripts were found, and the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-Aas, founded in 641 AD.
In Fustat, this museum tells Egypt's story from prehistory to today. Its Royal Mummies Hall holds the mummies of kings and queens such as Ramses II and Hatshepsut, moved here from the Egyptian Museum in a public parade in 2021.
You finish in Islamic Cairo. Al Muizz Street, laid out under the Fatimids in the 10th century, is lined with mosques, madrasas and old houses, and it leads to Khan El Khalili, the bazaar founded in the 14th century. Then you return to your hotel for the second night.
Breakfast is at the hotel, then you check out and are driven to Cairo Airport for the flight to Luxor. There is no sightseeing on this day; depending on the flight time, you may have a free morning to rest or walk.
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 or Nile cruise in Luxor, where a driver picks you up for the flight to Cairo. Your private guide meets you at Cairo Airport and goes straight to Giza. On day three, after breakfast and check-out, you are driven to Cairo Airport for the flight back to Luxor.
Return domestic flights between Luxor and Cairo, two nights in a 5-star Cairo hotel with breakfast, a private Egyptologist guide, a private air-conditioned car for all transfers, two lunches, entrance fees to every site in the program, and all taxes. Tips, dinners and extras outside the program are not included.
Yes. The guide and car are only for you and your companions. The per-person price drops as your group grows, since the car, guide and hotel costs are shared, and it changes by season because domestic airfares and hotel rates rise in the busy winter months and over the holidays.
Yes, the evenings are yours after each guided day, and day three has no sightseeing, only breakfast, check-out and the flight to Luxor. Depending on your flight time, that can mean a free morning. Ask us if you want to add an evening activity.
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.
