5 Days Cairo and Luxor Tours

Your Egypt Day Tours representative meets you at Cairo airport with a name sign and helps you through immigration and customs, then takes you by private air-conditioned car to your hotel. On the way they run through the plan for your trip and answer any questions, and at the hotel they help you check in. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: none.

After breakfast, at 8:00, you meet your private guide at the Giza Pyramids, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing. You stop at the panorama point for photos of all three, then visit the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple of Khafre. After lunch you tour the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Pyramids, home to the complete Tutankhamun collection, much of it on display for the first time, in galleries that take you through Egyptian history in order, followed by a drive along the Nile back to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast.

After breakfast you fly to Luxor for the East Bank. At Karnak, a vast complex of temples, chapels and pylons built from the Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic times and dedicated to Amun, Mut and Khonsu, you walk through the Hypostyle Hall with columns up to 21 metres tall. You then visit Luxor Temple, associated with the renewal of kingship, and the obelisk of Ramesses II at its entrance. Overnight in Luxor. Meals: breakfast.

After breakfast your guide takes you to the West Bank. In the Valley of the Kings you visit tombs of New Kingdom pharaohs decorated with scenes of the afterlife, then the terraced Temple of Hatshepsut, one of the few women to rule as pharaoh, whose reliefs record her expedition to the land of Punt. You finish at the Colossi of Memnon, the twin statues of Amenhotep III, before flying back to Cairo and transferring to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: breakfast.

After breakfast your representative takes you to Cairo airport and helps you through immigration and customs for your flight home. Meals: breakfast.

All prices are in US dollars per person and depend on your travel dates, group size and hotel category. Every tour is private, so we prepare a quote for your own group. You can pay online through our secure payment gateway with no extra costs or surcharges.

After you book, we email your confirmation and tour voucher with all the contact numbers you need.

Tipping is not included and is at your discretion.

• Under 6 years free, 6 to 11 years 50% of the adult price, 12 years and over full price.

100% refund if you cancel 60 or more days before arrival, 50% refund at 30 to 59 days, and free rebooking to new dates inside 30 days. Full details on our cancellation policy page.

A 20% deposit by card confirms your booking (70% for groups of 20 or more). You pay the balance in Egypt.

We strongly recommend travel insurance. Our cancellation policy page lists the providers we trust.

Not included unless listed: special entry tickets (such as inside a pyramid), visa fees, tips and personal expenses.

Yes, this 5-day package includes one overnight in Luxor between the East Bank day (Karnak, Luxor Temple) and the West Bank day (Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Colossi of Memnon).

Day 3 (East Bank) covers Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple, while day 4 (West Bank) covers the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, and the Colossi of Memnon, before flying back to Cairo the same evening.

Yes, both the outbound flight on day 3 and the return flight on day 4 are included in the package.

The Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, the Valley Temple, and the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Yes, you’ll have a private guide and vehicle throughout, in both Cairo and Luxor.