El Gouna: Cairo Day Trip by Plane with Giza Pyramids & Egyptian Museum
A single dawn flight lifts you from El Gouna's lagoons to the foot of the Pyramids.
Overview
Some mornings are worth the early alarm. While El Gouna's lagoons still lie dark and the marinas are quiet, you board a short domestic flight from nearby Hurghada and, barely an hour later, step out into Cairo - trading the water and the palm-lined islands for the greatest open-air history lesson on earth, with none of the long desert drive in between.
Your Egyptologist guide meets you at the museum you chose: the storied Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square or the vast new Grand Egyptian Museum. Gold funerary masks, painted coffins and the faces of pharaohs bring five thousand years into focus. Then comes the moment you flew for - the Giza Plateau, where the Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure rise from the sand and the Great Sphinx holds your gaze exactly as it has held travellers' for millennia.
Standing in their shadow, the scale is hard to put into words. These are the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, raised by hand more than four and a half thousand years ago. Over a relaxed lunch and a wander through a Cairo bazaar, you begin to sense why this one skyline has drawn pilgrims, pharaohs and explorers for longer than almost anywhere on earth.
Everything is arranged for you: pickup from your El Gouna hotel, the transfer to Hurghada Airport, round-trip flights, air-conditioned transport, entrance fees and lunch are all included. Optional extras - a Nile boat ride, entry inside the Great Pyramid or a camel ride at the pyramids - are there if you want them. By evening you are back beside the Red Sea, richer by one of the most remarkable days Egypt can offer.
Highlights
- Skip the long desert drive - fly from El Gouna to Cairo and back in a single day
- Stand before the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx and the Valley Temple
- Explore the Egyptian Museum or the new Grand Egyptian Museum, depending on your option
- Travel with an expert English-speaking Egyptologist guide
- Enjoy lunch at a traditional Egyptian restaurant and browse a Cairo bazaar
- Add a Nile boat ride, camel ride or entry inside the Great Pyramid if you wish
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off from your El Gouna hotel
- Air-conditioned transfer between El Gouna and Hurghada Airport
- Round-trip domestic flights between Hurghada and Cairo
- Air-conditioned transportation throughout the tour in Cairo
- Small-group or private tour, depending on the selected option
- Expert English-speaking Egyptologist guide
- Entrance fees to the Egyptian Museum or the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), according to your option
- Entrance fees to the Giza Plateau, including the Great Sphinx and Valley Temple
- Lunch at a traditional Egyptian restaurant
- Shopping stop at a local bazaar
- Drinks at the restaurant
- Optional activities (Nile River boat ride, entry inside the Great Pyramid, and camel or horse riding)
- Guides in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Chinese and Russian (available as an add-on)
Good to Know
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Optional. Pickup from your hotel
Free pickup and drop-off across El Gouna.
Optional Add-ons
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