from 0 review
9 Days 8 Nights
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English
9 days · Cairo, Giza, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel · from $3,450 per person
Most Egypt tours sell you a foreign civilisation. This one does not. Kemet — the name its own people used, meaning the Black Land — sits at the top of the Nile, and the Nile runs out of Africa. We travel it with Egyptologists who teach it as African history, because that is what it is.
Your guides are trained Egyptologists who work specifically with diaspora groups. You will hear the Kemetic names alongside the Greek ones, spend real time at Nubian sites most itineraries skip, and get answers rather than deflection when you ask the questions that usually get waved away at the pyramid gate.
The Giza plateau and the Great Pyramid, with early access before the crowds. The Egyptian Museum and the Grand Egyptian Museum. Saqqara and the Step Pyramid of Djoser. A Nile passage south to Luxor for Karnak, Luxor Temple and the Valley of the Kings. Aswan for Philae, the unfinished obelisk and a Nubian village visit on Elephantine Island. Abu Simbel at dawn, where Ramses II faces the sunrise.
Diaspora travellers who have wanted Egypt on their own terms. Groups from churches, lodges and study circles. Families with teenagers old enough to hold the history. Anyone who has read about Kemet for years and wants to stand in it.
Included: internal flights Cairo–Luxor and Aswan–Cairo, 8 nights 4–5 star hotels and Nile accommodation, daily breakfast and 6 dinners, all site entrances, Egyptologist guide throughout, airport transfers.
Not included: international flights, Egypt e-visa, travel insurance, gratuities.
Airport meet and greet, transfer to your hotel, welcome dinner and an orientation session on how the week is structured and how Kemetic history is framed.
Early access to the plateau before the crowds. The Great Pyramid interior, the Sphinx, the valley temple. Afternoon at the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The Step Pyramid of Djoser, the ancient capital at Memphis, and the Bent and Red Pyramids at Dahshur.
Morning at the Egyptian Museum, afternoon flight to Luxor, evening visit to Luxor Temple lit after dark.
Karnak Temple complex in the morning. Afternoon crossing to the Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut's temple and the Colossi of Memnon.
A day on the river heading south, stopping at Edfu and Kom Ombo, arriving Aswan in the evening.
Philae Temple, the unfinished obelisk, then a felucca to Elephantine Island for a Nubian village visit and lunch with a host family.
Pre-dawn departure to Abu Simbel for sunrise on the great temple of Ramses II. Return to Aswan, evening flight to Cairo, farewell dinner.
Breakfast, free time in Khan el-Khalili if your flight allows, airport transfer.
Member Since 2023
