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Tour Details
| Duration |
7 Days / 6 Nights |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Cairo / Amman / Madaba / Petra |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Cairo Airport or Amman Airport |
Magical 7 Day Egypt & Jordan Tour to Cairo, Petra & Dead Sea
This 7 day Egypt & Jordan tour is one of our most popular Egypt Multi Country Tours, covering Cairo's Giza Plateau and Old Cairo in Egypt before continuing to Jordan for Mount Nebo, Madaba's 6th-century mosaic map at St. George's Church, a Dead Sea float, and a full day in Petra. It is the only 7 day Egypt & Jordan itinerary that pairs the Cairo Pyramids with Petra and a Dead Sea float, with no Luxor filler and maximum Jordan immersion.
Day 1 opens with a Nile dinner cruise in Cairo. Day 2 covers the Giza Pyramids Complex, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, and the Valley Temple of Khafre, followed by the Grand Egyptian Museum. Day 3 moves through the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, then Coptic Cairo: the Hanging Church, Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque, and Ben Ezra Synagogue, and closes with the Salah El-Din Citadel and the Mohamed Ali Mosque. Day 4 is the Cairo to Amman flight, with arrival and transfer in Jordan. Day 5 visits Mount Nebo, Madaba city, and St. George's Church to see the Byzantine mosaic map of the Holy Land, then the Dead Sea for the salt-water float and mineral mud experience. Day 6 is a full day in Petra: the 1,200-metre Siq gorge, the Treasury, and the wider Nabataean city. Day 7 is the departure from Queen Alia International Airport.
Why Book This Tour
- The Only 7 Day Egypt & Jordan Tour Featuring Cairo, Petra & the Dead Sea
- Private Specialist Guides in Both Egypt and Jordan Throughout the Journey
- Private Air-Conditioned Transportation with No Shared Coaches
- Three Nights in a Hotel in Cairo with Daily Breakfast
- Three Nights in a Hotel in Amman with Daily Breakfast
- Cairo to Amman Flight Coordination with Airport Transfers Included
- All Major Egypt and Jordan Entrance Fees Included
- Guaranteed Full-Day Petra Visit and Dead Sea Experience
- Flexible Departure Dates, Hotel Upgrades & Additional Nights Available
Included
- Meet and assist with the Tripidays representative at Cairo airport
- 3 Nights of accommodations in Cairo hotel
- Private Egyptologist Guide for Cairo & Giza Sightseeing
- Private Air-Conditioned Transportation Throughout Egypt
- Nile Dinner Cruise with Buffet, Live Music & Tanoura Show
- Complete Egypt Sightseeing Entrance Fees Included
- Meet & Assist Service at Queen Alia International Airport
- 3 Nights accommodation in Amman hotel
- Private Jordan Guide for Madaba, Dead Sea & Petra Visits
- Private Air-Conditioned Transportation Throughout Jordan
- Complete Jordan Sightseeing Entrance Fees Included
- Short Horseback Ride Inside Petra Included
- Meals are provided as mentioned in the itinerary
- All Taxes and Service Charges Included
Excluded
- International Flights to Cairo and Departure Flights from Amman
- Egypt Entry Visa Fees
- Jordan Entry Visa Fees and Jordan Pass Costs
- Comprehensive Travel Insurance Coverage
- Personal Expenses, Drinks & Additional Meals
- Tips for Guides and Drivers in Egypt and Jordan
- Hotel Upgrades, Room Categories & Extra Nights
- PCR Tests, Health Documentation & Additional Entry Requirements
Highlights
Giza Attractions
- The Great Giza Pyramids
- The Great Sphinx
- The Valley Temple
- Grand Egyptian Museum
Cairo Attractions
- Egyptian Civilization Museum
- The Hanging Church
- Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
- Salah El-Din Citadel
- Mohamed Ali Mosque
Jordan Attractions
- Madaba City
- Mount Nebo
- St. George’s Church
- The Dead Sea
- Petra City
- The Siq
Itinerary
Your Tripidays representative meets you at Cairo International Airport and transfers you to your hotel in a private air conditioned vehicle. No sightseeing is scheduled today; the early evening is yours to settle before the city opens up tomorrow.
Nile Dinner Cruise
Your guide walks you to the boarding point as Cairo's riverside lights begin to reflect off the water the Nile at night moves quietly under a city that never fully quiets. The cruise runs approximately two hours, with a live oriental music set and traditional Tanoura performance unfolding as the boat passes illuminated bridges dating to the early 20th century.
Meals
Dinner
Your guide collects you after breakfast for the short drive to the Giza Plateau, where the three pyramid fields sit at the western edge of the city in full view before you reach the gate.
The Great Pyramids of Giza
You approach the plateau from the east, where the full scale of Khufu's pyramid, 146 metres at its original height, registers before any other detail does. The three main structures were built within a 67-year window during the 4th Dynasty, around 2560–2490 BCE, a compression of effort that no comparable monument has matched.
The Great Sphinx
Meet the mysterious Great Sphinx, the eternal guardian of the Giza Plateau. With the body of a lion and the face of a pharaoh, this iconic monument represents power, wisdom, and protection, and remains one of Egypt’s greatest ancient mysteries.
The Valley Temple
You enter through the granite threshold where the embalming and purification rituals for Khafre's mummy were performed before his burial in the second pyramid above. The walls are dressed in Aswan granite fitted without mortar, and the floor is paved in alabaster, two materials transported over 800 kilometres each to reach this single structure.
Grand Egyptian Museum
Explore the impressive Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), one of the largest archaeological museums in the world. Discover priceless artifacts and masterpieces that bring Egypt’s ancient civilization to life in a modern setting.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast, your guide picks you up for a morning that moves from prehistoric Egypt through to the Islamic medieval city, three faiths and four thousand years inside a single day in Cairo.
National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
Visit the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC), home to the famous Royal Mummies and a stunning collection that tells the full story of Egypt from ancient times to the modern era.
The Hanging Church
Your guide takes you up the external staircase into the nave, which is suspended above two towers of the Roman Babylon Fortress built by Emperor Diocletian around 300 CE. The church holds 110 icons, the oldest dating to the 8th century, and the wooden roof is carved into the shape of an inverted ark, a detail most visitors walk beneath without looking up.
Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque
You step into the first mosque built on the African continent, founded in 641 CE, within months of the Arab conquest of Egypt. The current structure is a later reconstruction, but the site and its orientation toward Mecca have remained continuous for 1,383 years. The interior courtyard holds a stillness that sits in direct contrast to the street market directly outside its northern wall.
Ben Ezra Synagogue
Your guide walks you into one of Cairo's oldest Jewish sites, built on land purchased from the Coptic community in the 9th century and expanded in the 12th century by Abraham Ben Ezra. The geniza, a document storage room sealed in the 11th century and reopened in 1896, contained over 300,000 manuscript fragments, now held in collections from Cambridge to New York.
Salah El-Din Citadel
You climb to the upper enclosure of the medieval fortress commissioned by Salah El-Din in 1176 CE, where the panoramic view north takes in the full run of Islamic Cairo's minarets against the Mokattam Hills. The citadel served as Egypt's seat of government for nearly 700 years, from Salah El-Din's garrison through to the reign of Muhammad Ali in the 19th century.
Mohamed Ali Mosque
Your guide walks you inside the Ottoman-style mosque completed in 1848, where the alabaster cladding on the lower walls gave it the name most Cairenes use: the Alabaster Mosque. The twin minarets at 82 metres are visible from most of central Cairo; the clock tower in the outer courtyard was a gift from King Louis-Philippe of France, sent in exchange for the obelisk now standing in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Families who wish to combine Cairo and Jordan with a slower paced exploration of Upper Egypt often choose our 11 Day Family Egypt and Jordan Nile Cruise & Petra Tour, which adds a family-friendly Nile Cruise experience between Luxor and Aswan before continuing to Jordan.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast and checkout, your driver transfers you to Cairo International Airport for the flight to Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. Flight time is approximately one hour and forty-five minutes. A Tripidays representative meets you on arrival and transfers you to your hotel in Amman. Travellers who want to combine the Dead Sea with Hurghada's Red Sea and a Nile cruise in the same trip can explore the 10 Day Egypt Jordan Overland Cairo First Timers instead.
Meals
Breakfast
Your guide collects you after breakfast for the drive south and west from Amman into the highlands above the Jordan Valley. The morning covers two of Jordan's most historically documented sites before the afternoon drops below sea level entirely.
Mount Nebo
You stand on the ridge where Deuteronomy places Moses' final view of the Promised Land before his death, the panorama west takes in the Jordan Valley floor, the northern edge of the Dead Sea, and on clear days, the outline of Jerusalem 46 kilometres away. The Byzantine memorial church on the summit contains a 6th-century mosaic floor with hunting and pastoral scenes, protected under the current modern shelter built in 1933 by the Franciscan Custody.
Madaba
Your guide walks you into the centre of Madaba, a city of 80,000 built on continuous occupation stretching back to the Bronze Age and now known across the region for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaic workshops. The streets around St. George's Church still contain active mosaic studios producing work in the same tesserae technique used 1,500 years ago.
St. George’s Church
You walk directly up to the floor-level mosaic map of the Holy Land installed here in the 6th century CE, originally measuring 94 metres by 25 metres and containing an estimated 2.3 million individual tesserae. The surviving portion, roughly a quarter of the original, still shows Jerusalem at its centre, identifiable by the colonnaded Cardo Maximus running north to south through the city, making it the oldest cartographic representation of the Holy Land still in its original location.
Dead Sea
Your guide drives you down from the Madaba plateau through the descent road that drops 1,300 metres in elevation over 45 kilometres, arriving at the shoreline of the Dead Sea at 430 metres below sea level, the lowest point on any land surface on Earth. You enter the water and float without effort; the 34% salinity, ten times that of the Mediterranean, makes submersion physically impossible and produces the horizontal posture every visitor photographs within the first ninety seconds of entering.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
Your driver takes you on the two-and-a-half-hour road south from Amman through the Desert Highway to Wadi Musa, the town at Petra's entrance. Your guide meets you at the visitor centre gate and leads the full site visit.
The Siq
You enter the natural gorge at ground level, where the sandstone walls are close to 3 metres apart at their narrowest point and rise to 80 metres on both sides for 1,200 metres of continuous enclosed passage. The colours shift from ochre to violet to deep red depending on the time of day and the angle of light entering from above; no two visits produce the same palette.
The Treasury
Your guide stops you at the Siq's exit point where the gorge opens, and the Treasury's carved facade fills the frame, 40 metres high and 28 metres wide, cut directly into the rose sandstone cliff by Nabataean craftsmen in the 1st century BCE. The urn at the top, which Bedouin legend long held to contain a pharaoh's gold, is solid stone; visible bullet marks on its surface date to repeated attempts to crack it open over several centuries. Travelers wishing to continue beyond Petra into Jordan's protected desert landscapes often choose our 8 Day Egypt Jordan Adventure, Cairo & Wadi Rum, which adds an overnight experience among the sandstone mountains and Bedouin camps of Wadi Rum before returning to Amman.
The Ancient Nabataean City
Beyond the Treasury, your guide leads you through the Street of Facades, past the Royal Tombs carved into the eastern cliff face, and into the colonnaded street at the city's commercial centre. Petra, at its height in the 1st century CE, housed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people and controlled the frankincense and spice trade routes connecting Arabia to the Mediterranean. The Great Theatre, cut into the hillside for an audience of 8,500, sits directly adjacent to tombs whose occupants were carved out to accommodate the seating tiers.
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
After your final breakfast in Jordan, your driver transfers you to Queen Alia International Airport. Your 7 day Egypt & Jordan tour ends here, having covered Cairo's full ancient and Islamic circuit in Egypt and Jordan's Dead Sea, Madaba, and Petra on the Jordan leg.
Meals
Breakfast
Notes:
* You can let us know if you'd like to customize your tour itinerary to meet your needs. We value your input and aim to accommodate your requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
This tour includes 3 nights in a Cairo hotel covering the Giza Pyramids Complex, Grand Egyptian Museum, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Coptic Cairo, and Salah El-Din Citadel, plus 3 nights in a Amman hotel covering Mount Nebo, Madaba's mosaic map, a Dead Sea float, and a full day in Petra. The Cairo→Amman flight, all entrance fees across both countries, private guides in Egypt and Jordan, daily breakfast, and selected lunches on sightseeing days are all included.
This is the only 7 day Egypt & Jordan itinerary that allocates 70% of its days to Jordan delivering Mount Nebo, Madaba, a Dead Sea float, and a full Petra day without compressing Jordan into a single rushed visit. Every comparable 7 day alternative that includes Luxor loses at least one full Jordan day to the domestic Egypt flight, leaving either the Dead Sea or Madaba cut entirely.
During the tour, you will visit:
- Giza Pyramids and Sphinx
- Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
- National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
- Old Cairo (Hanging Church, Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque, Ben Ezra Synagogue)
- Salah El-Din Citadel & Mohamed Ali Mosque
- Mount Nebo & Madaba Mosaic Map
- Dead Sea for a floating and mud spa experience
- Petra, including the Siq and the Treasury
March to May and September to November are the most practical months for this specific itinerary. The Dead Sea visit on Day 5 is most comfortable between 18°C and 28°C air temperature. July and August push above 40°C at the Dead Sea shoreline, which is 430 metres below sea level and significantly hotter than Amman. Petra in spring and autumn offers walkable temperatures inside the Siq gorge, where shade is limited, and heat builds quickly in the summer months.
Yes, the tour includes daily breakfast at the hotels, as well as selected lunches at authentic local restaurants. You will taste traditional Egyptian and Jordanian dishes during your Egypt and Jordan journey.
What to Pack
Hat
Backpack
Comfy Shoes
Powerbank
Medical Kit
Comfy Clothes
Sunglasses & Sunscreen
Personal Hygiene Products
Valid Passport For 6 Months
