| Duration |
17 Hours |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Pyramids of Giza / Step Pyramid / GEM |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Your Hotel in Soma Bay |
Fly from Soma Bay to Cairo for a full day covering the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, the Valley Temple, the Saqqara Step Pyramid, and the ancient capital of Memphis. This is the only Soma Bay flight excursion built around the origin of pyramid building rather than a museum stop, taking you from Saqqara’s early stepped design through to the finished monuments at Giza in one trip. If you want to explore other destinations and experiences from the resort, browse our Day Tours in Egypt for more options beyond this Cairo itinerary.
After lunch at a local restaurant, the day continues south to Saqqara and Memphis before a return flight to Hurghada and a transfer back to your Soma Bay hotel. The result is a single-day itinerary that traces nearly 500 years of Old Kingdom architecture, from Djoser’s Step Pyramid to Khufu’s Great Pyramid. View all day trips from Soma Bay to compare this route against the other Cairo excursions from your resort.
Only on this route
The only full-day flight excursion from Soma Bay that traces pyramid-building history from its origin pairing the Great Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx with the Saqqara Step Pyramid and the ruins of Memphis in one trip.
A private vehicle collects you from your Soma Bay hotel in the early morning for the transfer to Hurghada Airport, where a domestic flight carries you into Cairo for a day of Giza Plateau sightseeing and Old Kingdom history. This pyramids tour from Soma Bay covers five sites across two ancient site clusters in one day.
You step onto the Giza Plateau in front of the last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid, rising more than 138 meters above the desert. Two smaller pyramids stand beside it, built for the pharaoh's family across the same plateau.
Your guide leads you down to the Sphinx enclosure, where the limestone figure's lion body and human head have watched over the plateau for thousands of years. From here, your driver continues to the Valley Temple, a short distance away.
You walk through the massive limestone and granite blocks of the Valley Temple, once used in the pharaoh's mummification rituals before burial. Its columned halls sit just steps from the Sphinx, tying the two sites into a single funerary complex.
After a lunch stop near Giza, the drive continues south to Saqqara, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the earliest large stone pyramid in Egypt and the direct predecessor to the smooth-sided pyramids at Giza. Built around 4,700 years ago, its six stacked stone layers mark the shift from mudbrick tombs to monumental stone architecture.
Your final stop on this pyramids tour from Soma Bay is Memphis, the capital of ancient Egypt for more than 3,000 years, where a colossal fallen statue of Ramses II and an alabaster sphinx remain among the open-air ruins. You will head to Cairo Airport to board your flight to Hurghada, followed by a smooth transfer to your hotel in Soma Bay.
Lunch
The tour includes round-trip domestic flights between Hurghada and Cairo, private air-conditioned transport in Cairo, a licensed Egyptologist guide, lunch, and entrance fees to the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and Valley Temple, the Saqqara Step Pyramid, and Memphis. Personal expenses and tipping are not included.
This is the only Soma Bay flight excursion that pairs the Giza Pyramids and Sphinx with the Saqqara Step Pyramid and the ruins of Memphis instead of museum time. It traces the construction of Egypt's pyramids from Saqqara's early design to the finished monuments at Giza. If you'd rather add the Nile to your trip, see our Nile cruise from Soma Bay.
The tour visits the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx of Giza, the Valley Temple, the Saqqara Step Pyramid, and the ruins of Memphis, in that order. If you'd rather stay in Cairo overnight, our 2 day cairo from soma bay covers the same region over two days.
The tour runs approximately 17 hours door to door, including the domestic flights, with hotel pickup in the early morning and drop-off back at your Soma Bay hotel the same night. Exact pickup and return times depend on flight schedules on the day of travel.
Yes, a licensed Egyptologist guide and a private air-conditioned vehicle are included for all transfers and sightseeing in Cairo. The tour is run as a private booking rather than a shared group tour.
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