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11 Nights / 12 Days
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Description
✨ 12-Day Egypt Budget Tour: Cairo Highlights, Giza Pyramids & Hurghada Red Sea Holiday
🌟 Experience the Best of Egypt on 12-Day Egypt Budget Tour
12-Day Budget Egypt Tour. 🌟 Explore Egypt easily without stretching your budget. 💰 First, enjoy a journey filled with rich history and iconic monuments. 🏺 Then, relax on the Red Sea beaches. 🏖️ In addition, this tour is perfect for travelers seeking maximum value. Moreover, it guides you through Cairo’s legendary past. ✨ Next, unwind on Hurghada’s golden beaches. 🌅 Along the way, experience vibrant culture, stunning landmarks, and unforgettable scenery. 🕌 Overall, this tour creates memories that last a lifetime. 📸
🏛️ Cairo – Ancient Wonders and Vibrant Culture
Your journey begins in Cairo, where thousands of years of civilization come alive. 🌅 First, explore the Sakkara Necropolis, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, and then visit the Memphis Open-Air Museum. 🏺 After that, continue to the Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx, standing in awe of their grandeur. 🦁 Meanwhile, step inside the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) to see priceless treasures of the pharaohs. 💎
🏜️ Cairo – Ancient History and Iconic Monuments
Additionally, wander through Islamic Cairo and visit the historic Citadel, Sultan Hassan, and Al-Refai Mosques. 🕌 Then, explore the lively Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Along the way, enjoy the vibrant streets filled with local crafts 🎨, aromatic spices 🌿, and cultural charm 🎭. Moreover, Cairo’s rich history comes alive at every corner. Finally, capture every moment 📸 as you immerse yourself fully in the heart of Egypt. 🌅
🌊 Hurghada – Red Sea Relaxation and Adventure
Next, fly to Hurghada, Egypt’s Red Sea gem. ✈️ Crystal-clear waters, coral reefs, and sunny beaches create the perfect escape. 🏝️ You can also enjoy optional excursions: a thrilling Super Safari in the Eastern Desert 🏎️, Discover Scuba Diving 🤿, or a relaxing Utopia Island snorkeling tour 🏝️. Each experience offers unforgettable marine encounters.
🏛️ Cairo – Culture and Spiritual Diversity
Before departure, return to Cairo. ⏳ Explore historic Coptic Churches ⛪ and the Egyptian Museum 🏺, home to extraordinary ancient artifacts. Visit the National Museum of Civilization, Ibn Tulun Mosque, and Gayer Anderson Museum 🕌. Finally, explore the Citadel and the Sultan Hassan & Al-Refai Mosques to complete your cultural journey.
❤️ Perfect for All Travelers
This 10-day Cairo & Hurghada budget tour is ideal for couples 💑, families 👨👩👧👦, and solo travelers 🧳. It blends history, culture, adventure, and relaxation 🌟, making it one of the best value Egypt tour packages available today.
🌟 12-Day Budget Egypt Tour: One Trip. Many Experiences.
In the end, this tour gives you more than places. It gives you stories, moments, and memories. 🧭 History inspires you. Beaches relax you. Wonders amaze you.
🌍 Three destinations. One unforgettable budget adventure.
📅Why Pick 12-Day Budget Egypt Tour?
We plan every single day. For this reason, you rest. We use fast, clean cars. Also, we use expert guides. They tell very fun stories. Furthermore, the price is better. Yet, the quality is high. Thus, it is a deal. In fact, it is perfect.
Book Your 12-Day Budget Egypt Tour
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Itinerary
Welcome to Cairo. Your tour begins when you are greeted by our representative who will assist you through immigration and customs formalities. After you have collected your luggage, he will then take you, in our deluxe vehicle, to your Cairo hotel where you will meet your guide who will revise the tour plan with you.
Start your day tour to Giza Necropolis where our driver will pick up you from your hotel in Cairo or Giza and join our professional tour guide to witness the real magnificence ancient Egyptian attractions through visiting:
Memphis Open Air Museum
Memphis was the oldest capital of ancient Egypt, the first one that was founded after the unification of upper and Lower Egypt. The city was founded in the first dynasty (3100 BC).
The Step Pyramid of Saqqara
It’s called also step Pyramid of Zoser or Josser, due to the King Zoser who ordered his minister Imhotep to build it, this pyramid consists of six-layers, It’s height was about 197foot (60 meters). It is the first Pyramid ever built and it is the first largest scale stone building in the world.
Pyramid of Unas
The Pyramid of Unas is a smooth-sided pyramid built in the 24th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Unas, the ninth and final king of the Fifth Dynasty.
Overnight in Cairo
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
At 09 am you will meet your tour Guide and start your day to the great Pyramids area which includes:
Giza Pyramids Complex
The three main pyramids of Giza (Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure) are sufficient enough to build a 2-meter-long wall and span 100,000 square kilometers around the globe along with the equator.
The Great Pyramid (Extra Ticket)
The Great Pyramid of King Khufu is considered largely represents the spirit of ancient Egypt, King Khufu who built this Pyramid as a cemetery has left little information about his reign. Khufu ruled for about twenty-four years. Ironically, despite the enormity of his pyramid, the only statue of King Khufu himself is really small statue carved from ivory.
The Magical Sphinx
Who among us when mentioning the name of the Sphinx does not think about this stone sculpture that carved in the form of the human head and lion body, which is located in the Giza plateau in Egypt the Sphinx is one of the oldest and the largest sculptures in the world, it’s about 73.5 meters long and 6 meters wide.
There have been many and different opinions about the symbol represented by the Sphinx, Old views said that it represents the wisdom of man and the strength of the lion together and these qualities were applicable to “King Khafre“.
The Valley Temple
It was used as a place for the embalming process. This temple constructed definitely for two functions: First, it was used for the purification of the mummy before its burial. Second, it was used for making the Mummification process of the king.
The Grand Egyptian Museum
The museum houses a collection of the most valuable Egyptian artifacts ever from various periods of the Egyptian civilization, from the Predynastic Period to Coptic Egypt, with an estimated total of over 100,000 artifacts, including at least 20,000 that will be displayed for the first time ever, including the complete King Tutankhamun collection comprising 5,398 pieces. The Tut collection is on display in a 7,500 m2 section of the museum. Rare pieces that have been restored will be displayed for the first time, such as the second solar ship of Khufu, the restoration of which cost $5 million, the collection of Queen Hetepheres (mother of King Khufu), and the collection of Yuya and Thuyu (parents of Queen Tiye).
Overnight in Cairo
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
After breakfast at your hotel we will meet in the lobby and start our unique day tour to
The Citadel of Cairo
The citadel of Saladin contains many monuments dating back to different Islamic eras, it was not only just a fortified castle that was used to defend the city but also many mosques and other purposes was in the citadel for 800 years.
Mohamed Ali Mosque was built on a rectangular area inside Salah al-Din Citadel, it’s divided into two parts
National Military Museum
This museum is the first of its kind to be devoted to the history of the Egyptian military through the ages. The museum was located in al-Haram Palace in 1949 in the Cairo Citadel in 1949.
Sultan Hassan & Elrefai Mosques
Mosque of Sultan Hassan is a primal example of the early Islamic Mamluk architecture between 1356 A.D and 1363 A.D. The Mosque is 150m in length and covering 7,906 sq m inland and its walls reach the height of 36 m.
Moaiz ST & Khan Khaliili
Elmoaz Street the largest open-air museum for Islamic monuments in the world, and a unique heritage site that was added to The UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979. While Khan Khalili is One of the wonderful places in Cairo and the oldest market in the Middle East it’s a medieval-style mall.
Enjoy your lunch and it will be served at a local restaurant after the day tour. Then return to your hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Overnight in Cairo Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Check out from your hotel in Luxor after breakfast, then transfer to Cairo airport to catch your flight to Hurghada. After you have collected your luggage, our guide will then take you, in our deluxe vehicle, to your Hurghada hotel. Day at leisure in Hurghada, enjoy swimming, snorkeling, diving, and different water sports as well as optional tours available on request, overnight in Hurghada.
Overnight in Hurghada Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Have breakfast then enjoy Desert Super Safari tour Hurghada Included Pick Up time from your hotel in Hurghada by Toyota 4x4 WD enjoy an adventurous experience across the desert. Enjoy Desert Safari excursions from El Gouna with different activities Jeep, Quad biking, Make a camel ride. with Barbeque dinner and soft drinks Our representative will pick you up from your hotel in Hurghada by Jeep 4x4, Enjoy Sunset Desert Safari4X4, and then you will be transferred to the eastern Egyptian desert to Enjoy the Magic of the Egyptian Desert
Visit the Bedouin Tribe and Ride Camel. The Camel Riding tour in the desert offers a natural adventure through the amazing painted deserts you have ever seen, visit the Bedouin and see their life
Quad Biking Trip. Enjoy Quad biking Trip with a Professional quad-bike guide for your assistance Bedouin Village Tour with Bedouin Tea
Spider buggy Ride Enjoy short Trip with Spider-Buggy Car and finally Barbeque dinner will be served once the sun goes down, and you will make your way back out of the desert.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
In the morning, one of our representatives will transfer you from your hotel to enjoy a one-day Scuba diving on the boat with your instructor, who will teach you about diving. You will try diving in the morning and another one in the afternoon at different sites.
The time you will spend diving in the water should be around 30 – 40 minute, The diving will start after the completion of a medical form that we will give you upon your arrival to ensure your suitability. Talk some amazing photographs of the varied landscapes of Hurghada.
Finally, it’s time to end your Scuba diving in Hurghada, our representative will transfer you to your hotel where the rest of the day will be yours.
Many wondered: I do not know diving so how can I dive? You can learn the diving with your guide and you didn’t need to be a swimmer, swimming is one thing and diving is another, but you must have the courage and the ability to experience diving exciting.
After finishing your amazing tour, you will return back to your hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
We organize day snorkeling trip to Utopia Island from Hurghada. Experience the fascinating underwater world of the Red Sea on this full-day tour from Hurghada. Enjoy snorkeling among natural reefs and beautiful corals before enjoying the fantastic views of the colorful world of fish from a glass-bottomed boat.
Experience a fascinating snorkeling adventure in the Red Sea. After the pick-up at your hotel, you will head to the beautiful peninsula of Soma Bay, which will be your first snorkeling stop. Here there is also a pier, from which you will start the boat tour. Around Utopia Island are several natural reefs where you can enjoy snorkeling. Explore the unique underwater world and admire the countless colorful fish and beautiful corals.
After a few snorkeling stops you can relax with a delicious lunch onboard the boat and recharge your batteries. Afterwards, you will transfer to a glass-bottomed boat and spend memorable few hours admiring the underwater world of the Red Sea below your feet. For two hours you will have a direct view of the crystal-clear waters surrounding Utopia Island.
After finishing your amazing Red Sea adventure, you will return back to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
At the end of your Red Sea escape, fly back from Hurghada to Cairo on a comfortable domestic flight. This smooth and time-saving journey allows you to relax while enjoying scenic aerial views. Upon arrival in Cairo, our team will assist with your transfer, ensuring a seamless and stress-free conclusion to your luxury Egypt tour. Overnight in Cairo Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast you will check out and will be taken to a unique experience in Cairo which includes
Baron Empain Palace
Your Egypt trip will remain incomplete forever until you visit the spectacular Baron Empain Palace, also known as the El Palais Hindu, which is synonymous to showmanship and luxury of the city of Cairo. Situated on the landmark of Heliopolis and designed by French architect, this wondrous palace will grab your eyeballs with its fascinating history and magnificent oriental architecture.
The Mosque of Ibn Tulun
When we will go to Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque one of the oldest Islamic monuments in Egypt which was built in 879. It has the first spiral minaret that was erected in the sky of Egypt and is considered one of the hanging mosques that are built on a rocky peak called "Shukr" on Mokattam Mountain.
But if you want to know What was the mosque of Ibn Tulun used for? In the 12th century, it served as a shelter for pilgrims traveling to the Hijaz from North Africa. Al-Qata'i, the capital of Ibn Tulun and the administrative center of the Tulunid dynasty, was designed with the grand congregational mosque as its focal point.
The Gayer Anderson Museum
Gayer Anderson is an English officer who completed his medical studies in London and was appointed to the medical department of the English army in 1904, then he moved to the service of the English army in Egypt in 1907.
The museum consisted of two houses dating back to the Ottoman era in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, and they were combined into one house, In them, he displays his archaeological collection of Pharaonic, Islamic, and Asian antiquities, provided that this furniture and his collection of antiquities become the property of the Egyptian people after his death or when he leaves Egypt permanently.
Moaiz ST & Khan Khaliili
Elmoaz Street the largest open-air museum for Islamic monuments in the world, and a unique heritage site that was added to The UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979. While Khan Khalili is One of the wonderful places in Cairo and the oldest market in the Middle East it’s a medieval-style mall.
Overnight in Cairo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel then we will meet around 9 am to start our unique day to explore more of Cairo.
Manial Palace Museum
The Museum of Prince Muhammad Ali’s Palace in Manial is one of the most beautiful and important historical museums in Egypt. The museum exhibits an important period in the history of modern Egypt and is characterized by its architectural design. Its modern Islamic style merges with Persian and Mamluk elements. It was also inspired by Syrian, Moroccan and Andalusian motifs, as well as Ottoman style. The building thus harmonizes between a number of Islamic architectural traditions.
Cairo Train Museum
The Egyptian Railway Museum, located in Cairo, is a historic museum that showcases the country's railway history. It was established in 1932 and features around 700 models and exhibits, along with documents, maps, and statistical data illustrating the evolution of transportation and railways in Egypt. The museum was built to commemorate the inauguration of Africa's first railway in 1856. Visitors can explore the collection of old decorated trains and learn about the significant role of railways in Egypt's development.
Cairo Tower
The Cairo Tower or ElGezira tower or ( Brag El qahari) in Arabic language is consider one of the most prominent features of the Egyptian capital .Its partially open lattice-work design is intended to evoke a lotus plant. Cairo tower was built from 1956 to 1961 during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser with Soviet assistance.
Overnight in Cairo
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Breakfast at hotel. Check out and transfer to Cairo International Airport for final departure.
Meals: Breakfast
Experience
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Highlights
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🎯 Tour Highlights🏺 Explore Ancient Egypt on a 10-day budget-friendly journey🔺 Giza Pyramids & Great Sphinx – Egypt’s most iconic landmarks🏛️ Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) – World-class pharaonic treasures📜 Sakkara Necropolis & Memphis – Step Pyramid & ancient capital🕌 Islamic Cairo Tour – Citadel, Sultan Hassan & Al-Refai Mosques🛍️ Khan El Khalili Bazaar – Traditional markets & souvenirs⛪ Coptic Cairo – Historic churches & religious heritage🏖️ Hurghada Red Sea Resort – Relax on crystal-clear beaches🤿 Optional Adventures – Super Safari, Scuba Diving & Snorkeling⚖️ Perfect Balance of history, culture & beach relaxation
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Includes
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🤝 Meet & Assist Service on arrival & departure🚗 All Transfers in air-conditioned vehicles✈️ Domestic Flight: Cairo → Hurghada🏨 Budget Hotel Accommodation in Cairo & Hurghada🍽️ Daily Breakfast at hotels🗺️ Guided Sightseeing Tours as per itinerary🎓 Professional Egyptologist Guide in Cairo🎟️ Entrance Fees to included sites💼 All Taxes & Service Charges included
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✈️ International airfare to and from Egypt🛂 Entry visa to Egypt🍽️ Meals not mentioned in the itinerary💰 Personal expenses (laundry, drinks, phone calls, tips, etc.)🤿 Optional tours & activities in Hurghada🏛️ Entrance fees to sites not listed in the inclusions🎟️ Optional interior tickets (Pyramids, special tombs, etc.)💵 Tipping (Gratuities) for guides, drivers & hotel staff🛡️ Travel insurance
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