6-Day Egypt Express Tour
Why Choose This 6-Day Egypt Express Tour?
Short on vacation days but not willing to skip Egypt’s essentials? This 6-Day Egypt Express Tour is built for exactly that trade-off.
In under a week, you’ll stand at the Giza Pyramids and walk through the Grand Egyptian Museum. You’ll also sail three full-board nights on the Nile between Aswan and Luxor — without the extra travel days a 7- or 8-day itinerary requires.
This 6-Day Egypt Express Tour keeps the pacing tight but never rushed. Two nights in Cairo let you properly cover the pyramids and museum.
From there, a compact but complete Nile cruise takes in Aswan’s High Dam and Philae Temple, the temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu, and Luxor’s West and East Banks before flying back to Cairo. It’s the 6-Day Egypt Express Tour itinerary we recommend most often to travelers working with a single week off work.
If you have a little more time to spare, our Giza Pyramids and Grand Egyptian Museum Tour makes a great pre-departure add-on, and travelers wanting the classic week-long pace instead can compare this against our 7-Day Egypt Tour Cairo Luxor Aswan. For background on the sites you’ll visit, the Grand Egyptian Museum’s official site and UNESCO’s Ancient Thebes listing are excellent references.
Trip Highlights
- See the Great Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx and Valley Temple with a private Egyptologist guide.
- Explore the Grand Egyptian Museum and its major archaeological collections.
- Spend two nights in Cairo with daily breakfast.
- Fly from Cairo to Aswan and return from Luxor to Cairo.
- Enjoy three nights aboard an Aswan-to-Luxor Nile cruise on a full-board basis.
- Visit the Aswan High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk and Philae Temple.
- Explore Kom Ombo Temple and the Temple of Horus at Edfu.
- Discover Karnak Temple and Luxor Temple on the East Bank.
- Enter selected tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
- Visit Hatshepsut Temple and the Colossi of Memnon.
- Travel with NileWays Tours assistance throughout the 6-Day Egypt Express Tour.
