Cairo & Sharm El Sheikh: 5-Day Pyramids & Red Sea Package

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Duration5d

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

The Giza Pyramids and a Red Sea Escape in Five Days

You arrive at Cairo airport and are met by a representative who transfers you to your hotel. Over five days, you fly to Sharm El Sheikh for optional Red Sea diving at Ras Mohamed, then return to Cairo to see the Giza Pyramids, Great Sphinx, Valley Temple, and the Egyptian Museum's Tutankhamun collection. All flights, AC transport, entrance fees, and a guide are included; you handle only your luggage and passport.

Step-by-step itinerary

Day 1 — Arrival to Cairo

Arrive at Cairo airport
Meet representative with sign
Transfer to hotel by A/C car
Overnight in Cairo hotel

Day 2 — Travel from Cairo to Sharm

Have breakfast at hotel
Transfer to airport for flight
Fly to Sharm El Sheikh
Transfer to Sharm hotel
Overnight in Sharm hotel

Day 3 — Optional Ras Mohamed excursion

Optional transfer to Ras Mohamed
View panoramic vistas and beaches
See Bedouin encampment and islands
Enjoy marine life and coral views
Return and overnight in Sharm hotel

Day 4 — Sharm to Cairo and pyramid tour

Have breakfast at hotel
Transfer to airport for flight
Fly back to Cairo
Visit Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, Mykerinus
Visit Great Sphinx and Valley Temple
Enjoy free camel ride
Tour Egyptian Museum artifacts
Cairo city tour and Nile photo stop
Overnight in Cairo hotel

Day 5 — Departure from Cairo

Have breakfast at hotel
Transfer to airport
Assistance with departure formalities

The Experience

The moment your plane touches down at Cairo airport, someone is already holding a sign with your name. That small detail—a face waiting for you instead of a taxi negotiation at the curb—sets the tone for the whole trip. You're picked up in an air-conditioned car and driven straight to your hotel, no confusion, no haggling. The next morning you fly south to Sharm El Sheikh, where the Red Sea opens up in front of you. It's the kind of pace that lets you breathe between destinations instead of burning out on logistics.

Day three in Sharm is optional but worth the early start: Ras Mohamed sits where Asia and Africa meet across the water, and the diving there is unlike anywhere else. The reef doesn't have the biggest corals, but the sheer number and variety of fish—schools of them, colors you didn't know existed—makes it feel like you're inside an aquarium instead of looking at one. Mangroves line the shore, Bedouin camps dot the beach, and the islands of Tiran float in the distance. If diving isn't your thing, the beach itself is enough reason to stay.

Then you fly back to Cairo for the real reason you came. The Giza Pyramids hit differently when you're standing in front of them—the scale doesn't translate in photos. You walk past the Great Sphinx, visit the Valley Temple, and get a free camel ride (yes, actually). After that, the Egyptian Museum takes up most of the afternoon. Five thousand years of artifacts are packed into those rooms: gold, jewelry, statues, and the Tutankhamun collection that spent 3,500 years sealed in a tomb before archaeologists found it in the 1920s. A guide walks you through it all, pointing out what matters and what's just background noise. You finish with a Nile photo stop and a Cairo city tour before heading back to your hotel.

All of it—flights, transfers, entrance fees, the guide—is bundled into one price. No separate bookings, no surprises at the ticket window. On your last morning, breakfast is at the hotel, and your driver takes you to the airport with time to spare.

What’s included

Your five days include airport pickup and all transfers by air-conditioned vehicle, domestic flights between Cairo and Sharm El Sheikh, two nights in a three-star hotel in Cairo and two nights in Sharm, entrance fees to the Giza Pyramids, Great Sphinx, Valley Temple, Egyptian Museum, and optional transport to Ras Mohamed, a professional tour guide throughout, a free camel ride at the Pyramids, daily breakfast at your hotel, and all service charges and taxes. You arrange your own international flight to Cairo.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Egypt online tour

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see the Giza Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum without piecing together flights, hotels, and guides separately—the fixed itinerary and included transport mean you show up and move through the days without making decisions at every stop.