This package is the entry point to the Luxury level at Traviaz and the lowest price among luxury Egypt tourism packages starting from $610. Five full days in Cairo, Giza, Saqqara, and Memphis without domestic flights or travel between cities, with a private Egyptology guide, a private air-conditioned car, and accommodation in a five-star hotel every night. The ideal choice for those visiting Egypt for the first time who want a private Egypt tour with a real service level in limited time.
Upon your arrival at Cairo International Airport, Traviaz's specialized Egyptology guide personally receives you and assists you with arrival procedures, then you set off by private air-conditioned car to your luxury hotel. After resting, the first tours of this 5-star Egypt tour begin.
The Giza Plateau is a royal funerary complex of the Fourth Dynasty extending over an area of more than 16,000 hectares, and includes three main pyramids, valley temples, ceremonial causeways, and subsidiary tombs.
It is the only site from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still stands. Visiting it with a specialized guide reveals construction and planning details that cannot be noticed without guidance.
The Pyramid of Khufu was built between 2580 and 2560 BC and designed by the architect Hemiunu.
Its original height is 147 meters and its weight is around six million tons of limestone and granite, and it remained the tallest building in the world for more than 3,800 years.
Your guide will explain to you how the ancient Egyptians organized the construction workshops, the movement of stones, and the financing of a project of this size, which transforms the visit from mere observation to a real understanding of what you are standing before.
The Sphinx is carved from a single block of limestone and measures 73 meters in length and 20 meters in height.
It was built around 2500 BC and faces directly east toward the sunrise at the spring and autumn equinoxes, which reveals intentional astronomical precision in its design.
It is believed to represent the face of Pharaoh Khafre with the body of a lion as a symbol of power and wisdom.
The Valley Temple adjacent to the Sphinx is built from limestone blocks some of which exceed one hundred tons in weight, and it is one of the oldest surviving stone buildings in the world.
It was used in purification and mummification rituals before the Pharaoh's body was transferred to his tomb, and inside it you can see Pharaonic construction methods up close in a way that the pyramids themselves do not allow.
After breakfast you set off on the second day of this luxury Egypt tour to the Grand Egyptian Museum, then return in the evening to the Giza Plateau for an experience completely different from the daytime.
The Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened in November 2025, two kilometers from the Giza Plateau.
In the entrance hall the statue of Ramesses II welcoming you weighs 82 tons and stands 11 meters tall, and behind it the grand staircase lined with 87 massive statues of Pharaohs and gods on both sides extends across six floors.
The main wing is the Tutankhamun exhibition which displays his complete artifact collection of 5,398 pieces for the first time in a single sequence, from the golden mask and the six coffins to the furniture, clothing, and ostrich feather fan.
The museum is larger than can be covered without a guide, and the Traviaz guide takes you directly to its most prominent highlights without wasting your time wandering randomly.
In the evening you return to the Giza Plateau to attend the Sound and Light Show. The Pyramids and the Sphinx are illuminated with changing colors while the story of Egyptian civilization is narrated with sounds and music that turn the plateau into an open-air theater under the stars.
The Pyramids at night are completely different from the daytime visit and deserve a separate stop.
The third day of this ancient Egypt tour takes you outside Cairo to Memphis and Saqqara, the cradle of Egyptian civilization more than a century before the Giza Pyramids.
Memphis was the first unified capital of Egypt, founded by King Menes around 3100 BC and remained the political and religious center of the country for more than a thousand years.
Its open-air museum today in the Mit Rahina area houses the massive statue of Ramesses II made from limestone measuring more than 10 meters in length, discovered in 1820 buried in the ground near the temple of the god Ptah.
Alongside it stands the Alabaster Sphinx carved from a single alabaster block weighing around 80 tons and is one of the largest sphinx statues in Egypt.
Saqqara is the largest archaeological cemetery in Egypt and was used for burial for three thousand years. It contains the Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser built between 2667 and 2648 BC, which is the first pyramid in human history and the first massive stone building in the world.
It was designed by the architect Imhotep who was a physician, engineer, and scholar all at once and was later deified as a god of wisdom and medicine.
The pyramid consists of six diminishing steps reaching a height of 62 meters, and every pyramid built in Egypt after it owes its existence to what Imhotep invented at Saqqara.
Visiting it with a specialized guide places the Giza Pyramids in their true context and makes them more logical than if you had visited them alone.
The fourth day reveals a completely different layer of Cairo's history extending from the twelfth century AD until today.
Salah El Din Citadel was built in 1176 AD above the Muqattam Hills to protect Cairo from Crusader threats, and remained the seat of Egypt's governance for around 700 years through the Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman eras.
Inside it stands the Mosque of Mohamed Ali Pasha built between 1830 and 1857 with its Ottoman domes, towering minarets, and alabaster-clad walls. From the citadel's walls you overlook the whole of Cairo and understand why Salah El Din chose this specific location.
Old Cairo is an area where the three civilizations that shaped Egypt meet, the Pharaonic, the Christian, and the Islamic, in narrow streets that do not exceed a few square kilometers.
The Hanging Church is one of the oldest Christian churches in Egypt and its roots go back to the third century AD.
It was named so because it is built above two towers of the Roman Babylon Fortress, and holds a rare collection of Coptic icons that tell the history of Christianity in Egypt across seventeen centuries.
The Ben Ezra Synagogue is the oldest preserved Jewish site in Cairo and the roots of the Jewish community in it go back to the ninth century AD.
Local tradition links the site to the place where the infant Moses was found among the Nile's reeds, which makes it a site of religious significance that transcends the three religions at once.
After the final breakfast at the hotel, a Traviaz representative comes with a private air-conditioned car to transfer you to Cairo International Airport with assistance in departure procedures.
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