Tour Details
| Duration |
8 Days / 7 Nights |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Cairo / Alexandria / Amman / Petra / Wadi Rum |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Cairo Airport or Amman Airport |
Ultimate 8 Day Egypt and Jordan Adventure Trip
This 8 day Egypt and Jordan adventure tour covers Cairo's Giza Plateau and Old Cairo, Alexandria's Mediterranean coast, and two full days in Jordan across Wadi Rum and Petra. As one of the most distinctive Egypt combined tours, it replaces the traditional Luxor extension with Alexandria and pairs it with a Wadi Rum 4x4 desert safari. No other 8 day Egypt and Jordan itinerary follows this route, making it ideal for active travellers seeking greater variety across both countries rather than a standard monuments circuit. Four nights are spent in Cairo, three in Amman, with a direct flight connecting the two countries on Day 5.
Day 1 begins in Cairo with an airport transfer and a Nile Dinner Cruise. Day 2 covers the Giza Pyramids Complex, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Valley Temple of Khafre, and the Grand Egyptian Museum. Day 3 is full in Alexandria: Qaitbay Citadel on its Mediterranean promontory, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Pompey's Pillar, and the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, returning to Cairo overnight. Day 4 moves through Old Cairo: the Egyptian Museum, the Hanging Church, Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque, Ben Ezra Synagogue, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with its Royal Mummies Hall, Al Muizz Street, and Khan El Khalili Bazaar. Day 5 is the country transition breakfast in Cairo, flight to Queen Alia International Airport, and transfer to Amman. Day 6 is a full Wadi Rum 4x4 desert safari: the Nabataean Temple, Lawrence Spring, and Khazali Canyon, returning to Amman. Day 7 is dedicated to Petra: entry through the Siq to Al Khazneh, then the Royal Tombs, the Great Theatre, and Qasr al-Bint. Day 8 is the departure from Queen Alia International Airport.
Why Book This Tour
- Alexandria & Wadi Rum Adventure Route
- Private Egyptologist & Bedouin Expert Guides
- Private Air-Conditioned Transportation Throughout
- 4 Nights in a Cairo Hotel
- 3 Nights in a Amman Hotel
- All Egypt Attraction Entrance Fees Included
- All Jordan Attraction Entrance Fees Included
- Included Nile Dinner Cruise Experience
- Customizable Itinerary & Optional Upgrades
- 24/7 Tripidays Customer Support
Included
- Meet and assist with the Tripidays representative at the airports
- 4 Nights of accommodations in Cairo hotel
- 3 Nights accommodation in Amman hotel
- Private Egyptologist Guide in Egypt
- Local Bedouin Guide in Wadi Rum
- Private Guide for Petra & Jordan Sites
- All transfers are by modern private A/C vehicles
- Entrance fees to all attractions mentioned in the Itinerary
- One bottle of water during the tours
- Meals are provided as mentioned in the itinerary
- Our assistance during your stay
- All Taxes and Charges
Excluded
- International Flights
- Cairo–Amman Flight
- Egypt Entry Visa
- Jordan Entry Visa
- Travel Insurance
- Personal Expenses
- Tips for Guides & Drivers
- Optional Tours & Upgrades
Highlights
Giza Attractions
- The Giza Pyramids
- The Sphinx
- The Valley Temple
- The Grand Egyptian Museum
Alexandria Attractions
- Qaitbay Citadel
- Alexandria Library
- Pompey’s Pillar
- Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
Cairo Attractions
- The Egyptian Museum
- The Hanging Church
- Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque
- Ben Ezra Synagogue
- Egyptian Civilization museum
- Al Muizz Street
- Khan El Khalili Bazaar
Wadi Rum Attractions
- Nabataean Temple
- Lawrence Spring
- Khazali Canyon
Amman Attractions
- Petra
- Al Khazneh (The Treasury)
- Royal Tombs
- Great Theatre
- Qasr al-Bint
Itinerary

Your guide meets you at Cairo International Airport and transfers you to your hotel in a private air-conditioned vehicle. The evening starts on the Nile board a dinner cruise as the city lights reflect off the water and a Tanoura dancer spins on the deck above you.

Nile Dinner Cruise
Your first hour on the river puts Cairo's illuminated skyline on both banks as the boat moves south from central Cairo. The Tanoura performance has run on these boats for decades; the spinning skirts are a Sufi devotional practice adapted into a folkloric show that dates the tradition to 13th-century Egypt.

Meals
Dinner

Your guide collects you after breakfast for the short drive to the Giza Plateau, the opening day of the Egypt leg of this 8 day adventure tour of Egypt and Jordan. The morning covers the plateau's four major monuments; the afternoon moves to the museum complex three kilometres north.

The Giza Pyramids
Stand in awe before the legendary Great Pyramid of Khufu, alongside the Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure, at the iconic Giza Pyramids Complex, a timeless highlight of every Cairo and Alexandria sightseeing tour.

The Great Sphinx
Marvel at the enigmatic Great Sphinx of Giza, the colossal limestone statue with a lion’s body and a human head, standing as the eternal guardian of the Giza Plateau. This iconic monument has captivated travellers and historians for centuries with its grandeur, mystery, and ancient symbolism.

The Valley Temple
Step inside a structure built from massive blocks of Aswan granite and local limestone, where ancient priests conducted purification rites before royal burial. The interior columns are undecorated the severity of the stonework makes the scale of each block, some weighing over 100 tonnes, impossible to overlook.

Grand Egyptian Museum
Your guide leads you through the grand staircase lined with colossal statues before entering the Tutankhamun galleries, which house over 5,000 artefacts from his tomb, including the gold death mask and dismantled chariots. Opened in stages from 2023, GEM is the largest archaeological museum ever built, at 480,000 square metres of floor space.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, your driver takes the Cairo to Alexandria Desert Road northwest, approximately two and a half hours, delivering you to Egypt's second city on the Mediterranean. This is the day that separates this 8 day adventure Egypt and Jordan tour from every other 8 day itinerary: no Luxor, no temples of the Nile valley, instead a coastal city built by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Travellers who prefer to include Upper Egypt's ancient temples can alternatively consider the 8 Day Budget Egypt Jordan Cairo, Luxor & Petra.

Qaitbay Citadel
You walk through the main gate of a 15th-century fortress built directly on the foundations of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The citadel sits on a narrow peninsula with the Mediterranean on three sides; the sea wind is audible throughout.

Alexandria Library
Your guide takes you inside a building whose tilted disc roof, clad in Aswan granite engraved with scripts from 120 world languages, is itself an architectural statement about the original library's ambition. The modern institution opened in 2002, built to echo the ancient Library of Alexandria that once held an estimated 700,000 scrolls.

Pompey’s Pillar
You arrive at a lone Corinthian column rising 27 metres from a ruined temple precinct, the tallest ancient monument still standing in Alexandria. It was not built for Pompey. The column was erected in 297 AD to honour the Emperor Diocletian, misnamed by medieval crusaders who assumed it marked a Roman general's tomb.

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
Your guide descends with you three levels into an underground necropolis where Egyptian funerary iconography, Anubis, Thoth, and mummification scenes are carved in Roman architectural frames, the only known fusion of these two visual traditions in a single burial complex. Cut into the bedrock in the 2nd century AD, the tombs were rediscovered in 1900 when a donkey fell through the entrance shaft.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

The final Egyptian day before the Jordan crossing covers the densest concentration of religious heritage in Cairo, Coptic, Islamic, and Jewish sites within walking distance of each other, then the city's most layered Islamic street and its central bazaar. This is the last full day of the Egypt leg of this 8 day adventure in Egypt and Jordan.

The Egyptian Museum
Your guide walks you through galleries that have occupied the same pink building on Tahrir Square since 1902, housing over 120,000 artefacts, including royal mummies and the original Tutankhamun treasures, before their transfer to GEM. The building itself is part of the experience: the crowded, unhurried rooms feel closer to a royal archive than a modern institution.

The Hanging Church
You enter through a narrow gateway and climb a stone staircase to a nave suspended above two Roman gate towers of the Babylon Fortress, built here in the 1st century AD. The church's interior cedar ceiling is carved in a pattern that recalls the hull of Noah's Ark, a detail your guide points out before you read it on any sign.

Amr Ibn El Aas Mosque
Your guide leads you into the first mosque built on the African continent, founded in 641 AD by the Arab general who took Egypt from the Byzantines. The current structure is heavily restored, but the open courtyard and the directional logic of the qibla wall give a clear sense of early Islamic spatial thinking.

Ben Ezra Synagogue
Step into a 9th-century synagogue built on a site held sacred since the 6th century BC, when a Jewish community settled near the Babylon Fortress. The interior wooden ark and geometric screen-work survived centuries of alternating use and abandonment; the building was last restored in the 1980s.

National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
Your guide brings you to the Royal Mummies Hall, where 22 pharaonic mummies, including Ramesses II and Queen Hatshepsut, are displayed in a climate-controlled gallery transferred from the Egyptian Museum in 2021. The NMEC's thematic layout traces Egyptian civilisation from prehistoric settlements to the 21st century in a single building.

Al Muizz Street
Stroll along Al Muizz Street, a living open-air museum of Islamic architecture, lined with historic mosques, madrasas, and beautifully preserved medieval buildings.

Khan El Khalili Bazaar
Explore the lively Khan El Khalili Bazaar, Cairo’s most famous market, where colorful lanterns, aromatic spices, handcrafted souvenirs, and centuries-old cafés create an unforgettable atmosphere.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at the hotel, then check out and transfer to Cairo International Airport for your flight to Queen Alia International Airport in Amman. A Tripidays representative meets you on arrival, handles transfer formalities, and delivers you to your hotel in central Amman. The evening is free. The Jordan leg of this 8 day adventure Egypt and Jordan tour begins the following morning in the desert. Travellers seeking a more extensive multi-country tour for the longest experience with additional beach time and a Nile cruise may prefer the 21 Day Luxury Egypt Jordan Cruise and Sharm.

Meals
Breakfast

After breakfast, your driver takes you south from Amman, approximately three hours, to the entrance of Wadi Rum Protected Area in Jordan's southern desert. A local Bedouin guide takes over here and loads the group into 4x4 vehicles for a full-day safari across one of the most physically distinct landscapes on this itinerary.

Nabataean Temple
Your guide stops the 4x4 at a free-standing stone structure in the open desert, one of the oldest Nabataean religious sites in Wadi Rum, dating to the 1st century BC. The Nabataeans built their trade empire between Arabia and the Mediterranean from precisely this kind of remote desert position. The temple marks a node on a route that moved frankincense, spices, and silk north toward Petra.

Lawrence Spring
Visit Lawrence Spring, a picturesque desert oasis named after T.E. Lawrence, offering a glimpse into the life of desert travelers and the legend of “Lawrence of Arabia.”

Khazali Canyon
Discover the mysterious Khazali Canyon, a narrow gorge adorned with intricate Thamudic and Nabataean inscriptions, revealing centuries of desert history and ancient storytelling.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast in Amman, your driver takes the scenic Desert Highway south to Wadi Musa, the town at Petra's entrance. The full day is dedicated to the Nabataean city, the largest site on the Jordan leg of this 8 day adventure Egypt and Jordan tour. Entry is on foot through the Siq.

Al Khazneh (The Treasury)
You walk the full 1.2-kilometre length of the Siq sandstone walls narrowing to three metres above your head — until the canyon bends and the Treasury's facade appears directly in front of you, 40 metres high and carved from a single rose-coloured cliff face. The structure was likely a royal mausoleum built in the 1st century BC for the Nabataean king Aretas III; the Hellenistic columns and urn at the top are solid stone, not hollow.

Royal Tombs
Your guide leads you along the Street of Facades to a high cliff face where four monumental tomb facades the Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, Corinthian Tomb, and Palace Tomb, are stacked and cut directly into the rock at a scale intended to be visible from the valley floor. The Urn Tomb's interior was converted to a Byzantine church in 446 AD; the painted plaster is partially preserved on the rear wall.

Great Theatre
You step onto the stage of a theatre carved into a hillside in the 1st century AD, expanded by the Romans after 106 AD to seat an estimated 7,000 spectators. The cavea was cut directly through existing Nabataean tomb facades. The Romans removed earlier funerary monuments to build the seating tiers, and the exposed tomb chambers are visible in the upper rows.

Qasr al-Bint
Your guide brings you to the largest free-standing structure in Petra, a temple built around 30 BC and dedicated to the Nabataean god Dushara, whose altar still stands in the forecourt. The walls reach 23 metres and are the most intact monumental masonry in the city; everything else at Petra is cut into rock. This was built upward from the valley floor.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch

Final breakfast at the hotel, then check out and transfer to Queen Alia International Airport. Your Tripidays representative handles departure formalities. The Egypt leg covered Cairo's Giza monuments, Alexandria's Mediterranean coast, and the densest day of Old Cairo heritage on this itinerary; the Jordan leg covered Wadi Rum's desert safari and a full day in Petra. Both countries at their most active. For travellers who wish to explore Egypt and Jordan more comprehensively by land, including additional historical sites and longer overland travel between destinations, the 15 Day Egypt Jordan Overland Expedition Cairo & Petra offers a deeper regional journey.

Meals
Breakfast
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Frequently Asked Questions
This tour includes 4 nights in a Cairo hotel, 3 nights in an Amman hotel, private guides across all Egypt and Jordan sites, entrance fees to all named attractions in both countries, daily breakfast, lunches on Egypt days, and a Nile Dinner Cruise on Day 1. All transfers by private air-conditioned vehicle throughout Egypt and Jordan are included, along with a Wadi Rum 4x4 Bedouin safari and full-day Petra exploration.
This is the only 8 day Egypt and Jordan tour that replaces Luxor with Alexandria's Mediterranean coast and adds a full Wadi Rum desert safari. No other 8 day itinerary in this silo covers both separators simultaneously. Every other 8 day Egypt and Jordan option routes through Luxor on the Egypt leg and either skips Wadi Rum or uses it as a brief stop, not a dedicated safari day.
During the Tripidays tour, you will explore:
- Cairo: Great Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx, Valley Temple, Egyptian Museum, Grand Egyptian Museum, Old Cairo, Khan El Khalili Bazaar
- Alexandria: Qaitbay Citadel, Alexandria Library, Pompey’s Pillar, Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
- Jordan: Wadi Rum desert safari, Nabataean Temple, Lawrence Spring, Khazali Canyon, Petra’s Al Khazneh, Royal Tombs, Great Theatre, Qasr al-Bint
Wadi Rum is a UNESCO World Heritage protected desert wilderness in southern Jordan, covering 720 square kilometres of sandstone cliffs, red dune fields, and ancient rock inscriptions. On Day 6 of this tour, a local Bedouin guide leads a full-day 4x4 safari through the Nabataean Temple, Lawrence Spring, and Khazali Canyon, a narrow gorge lined with Thamudic carvings up to 2,000 years old.
This tour is built specifically for active travellers. The Egypt leg combines a Mediterranean coast day in Alexandria with the Giza monuments and a dense Old Cairo day, while the Jordan leg delivers a full Wadi Rum 4x4 desert safari followed by a full day on foot through Petra's canyon trails and rock-cut monuments. Comfortable walking shoes and moderate fitness are recommended for both Petra and the Wadi Rum terrain.
















































































































































