Private Day Tour to Memphis Sakkara and Dahshur from Cairo
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Overview
See some of Egypt’s lesser-known pyramids on a private day trip from Cairo. Traveling by air-conditioned vehicle, hear about the ancient pharaohs and their burial grounds from your guide as you journey south to the necropolis of Dahshur. View the Red Pyramid and extraordinary Bent Pyramid here, and then explore the ruins of Memphis, once Egypt’s capital. Inspect the broken relics, columns and giant fallen statue of Ramses II, before continuing to Saqqara. Here, see the famous Step Pyramid of Zoser, Egypt’s oldest stone structure, before returning to Cairo.
Cairo · 2367 Day Trips · typical ~7,482 EGP · 2,260 EGP — good value
What's included
- ✓Private Tour Guide
- ✓All transfers by modern air conditioned vehicle
- ✓All services charges and taxes
- ✕Any extras not mentioned in the Itinerary
- ✕Gratuities
- ✕The extra charge of Pick up from the hotels and points outside the city
- ✕In case Car and guide OR Car only is booked, the entrance fees are excluded
Itinerary
- 1Memphis and Sakkara
- 2Saqqara Pyramid
- 3Pyramids of Dahshour
Frequently asked questions
- How long is this experience?
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- Can I cancel my booking?
- Yes — you can cancel free of charge up to 24 hours before it starts.
- What's included?
- Private Tour Guide · All transfers by modern air conditioned vehicle · All services charges and taxes
Reviews (411)
What an incredible experience and start to my Egypt trip! The visits to all 3 locations were spectacular. Seeing the Step pyramid, the very first pyramid to be built, up close, was just incredible. At the same site, going to the Pyramid of Unas and down into the burial chamber was mind blowing - seeing real hieroglyphs in person for the first time was quite emotional - this is a must visit! We then went to to an additional stop at the Serapeum which contains 24 tombs/sarcophagi of what would have held sacred bulls. The size of these is insane - how they got down there is mind boggling. Onwards
Mohammed led a fantastic tour. He was so humerous and knowledgeable. Took us to the most amazing tombs in Sakkara, as well as to various pyramids and Memphis. Highly recommend this half day tour.
Must do tour! It was great to see how they started building the first pyramids and the large tombs are amazing! I would definitely say this is a must do tour, our guide Mohamed and driver Ihab were great, fun, nice and knowledgeable. Great experience
Ahmed was a fantastic guide - funny, kind, patient, and very knowledgeable. We crawled inside two of the older pyramids and pretty much had them all to ourselves. The hieroglyphs in the tombs near the step pyramid were unlike anything else we saw in Egypt. Highly recommend taking this side trip.
Awesome tour on our inaugural day in Cairo. We wanted something not covered on our pre-booked 10 day tour of Egypt and this one did not disappoint. Our guide, Hosni, was on time (important to us), very knowledgeable and insightful, with a kind manner and a wonderful sense of humor. His English language skills are also very good. We hit all the sights mentioned except we skipped the papyrus as we are doing that on our longer group tour and did not want to duplicate. The Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid were beautiful but a challenge to go into. The Bent Pyramid has bats so be careful!
Henry Ayoub was a very informative and energetic host. We thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Hassle-free experience. We would recommend buying from the viator.com website as we tried app and it didn’t work.
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