Egypt Day Trips
Egypt is further across than the map suggests. These are the runs that get you there and back in a day, with what each one actually costs.
From Cairo
Alexandria
Trade pyramids and desert for the Mediterranean: Alexandria's Roman ruins and sea air are about three hours from Cairo.
240 tours · from 521 EGP
Luxor
Cairo to Luxor is about an hour by air, and that flight is what turns the world's greatest open-air museum into a day trip.
173 tours · from 2,343 EGP
Fayoum
Swap temples for desert waterfalls, a colour-changing lake and a valley of ancient whale fossils, about two hours from Cairo.
64 tours · from 3,645 EGP
The White Desert
Wind-carved chalk mushrooms, black volcanic hills and ridges of crystal: the White Desert is Egypt's strangest landscape, a long day or one unforgettable night from Cairo.
45 tours · from 4,947 EGP
Abu Simbel
Ramses II's twin rock temples stand a thousand kilometres south of Cairo, and a dawn flight puts them within reach of a single extraordinary day.
40 tours · from 4,999 EGP
From Hurghada
Luxor
Turn a Red Sea beach holiday into a day among the pharaohs: Luxor's temples and tombs are about four hours inland from Hurghada.
215 tours · from 965 EGP
Cairo
See the Pyramids from your Red Sea holiday, by long coach or a much faster domestic flight from Hurghada.
139 tours · from 1,614 EGP
Dendera & Abydos
Dendera is the closest great pharaonic temple to the Red Sea: about three hours from Hurghada to a ceiling that still glows with its original colour.
15 tours · from 3,645 EGP
From Luxor
Aswan
Philae on its island, the High Dam and the granite quarries: Aswan's highlights sit about three and a half hours south of Luxor, close enough for one well-planned day.
250 tours · from 677 EGP
Dendera & Abydos
North of Luxor wait the two best-preserved temple interiors in Egypt: Hathor's colour-drenched ceiling at Dendera and Seti I's masterpiece at Abydos.
144 tours · from 1,458 EGP
From Aswan
From Sharm El Sheikh
Cairo
See the Pyramids from the Sinai coast, by domestic flight or a long overnight coach from Sharm El Sheikh.
68 tours · from 1,563 EGP
St Catherine & Mount Sinai
Three hours from the beach stands the world's oldest continuously working monastery, at the foot of the mountain where tradition says Moses received the Ten Commandments.
36 tours · from 1,563 EGP
