12 trips · from USD 46
The pyramids, the Sphinx and the Grand Egyptian Museum are at Giza, on the western edge of the city. The medieval and Coptic quarters, the Citadel and the old Egyptian Museum are across the river. Each is a full day on its own, and Cairo traffic decides how much more you fit in, so we plan around it rather than pretend it is not there.
Best seller The world's largest single-civilisation museum, then the plateau it was built to face.
Best seller The plateau on its own, in four hours, without the museum attached.
The old museum, still holding the Old Kingdom masterpieces the new one did not take.
Twenty-two kings and queens in a purpose-built basement gallery, lit like a crypt.
Twelve centuries of the city in two neighbourhoods, mostly on foot.
Saladin's fortress, an Ottoman mosque in alabaster, and the best view of the city.
Koshari, hawawshi, sugarcane juice and a tea where Naguib Mahfouz wrote.
The Sphinx narrates. It is dated, and the setting still works.
Dinner on the water with a tanoura dancer, and the city lit on both banks.
Where pyramid building was worked out, three attempts at a time.
Six hours between flights, done without missing the second one.
Two eccentric palaces, one Ottoman revival and one Hindu-temple fantasy in Heliopolis.
Every trip here is private and can be joined to another region. Tell us your dates and we will put it together, with a fixed price in writing and no deposit.
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