| Duration |
4 Days / 3 Nights |
|---|---|
| Tour Location |
Cairo / Giza |
| Tour Type |
Daily Tour |
| Pickup |
Cairo Airport or Your Hotel |
This 4 day Cairo tour package covers the Giza Plateau, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Museum, Salah El Din Citadel, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, Al Muizz Street, and Khan El Khalili Bazaar, all within Cairo and Giza, with private transport throughout. It is the only 4-day package built entirely around the Pyramids, Egyptian Museum, and Islamic Cairo without leaving the city. For travelers exploring more journeys across the country, you can also discover our full collection of Egypt holiday packages, offering many options to continue your adventure.
On your first evening, you’ll enjoy a magical Nile Dinner Cruise, where soft breezes, warm lights, and traditional performances create the perfect introduction to Cairo’s charm. Day 2 takes you to the Giza Pyramids Complex and the Great Sphinx, followed by the Valley Temple of Khafre, then across to the Grand Egyptian Museum for Tutankhamun's collection and the permanent pharaonic galleries. Day 3 moves into central Cairo: the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, the Salah El Din Citadel and its Alabaster Mosque, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with the Royal Mummies Hall, then Al Muizz Street and Khan El Khalili Bazaar on foot. Your final day begins with breakfast before your airport transfer, marking the end of a short but rich Cairo experience. To compare against the full range, browse all See all 4-day Egypt tours.
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Your unforgettable 4 days Cairo tour package begins the moment you land at Cairo International Airport. A Tripidays representative will warmly welcome you, assist with all airport formalities, and escort you to your hotel for check-in. Take some time to relax, refresh from your journey, and get ready for the adventure ahead.
You'll board a traditional dinner boat on the Nile as Cairo's skyline lights up on both banks, the best orientation to the city before the sightseeing begins. The evening runs two hours with live Tanura and Tanoura performance, a set Egyptian menu, and open river views from your table.
Dinner
Private vehicle picks you up after breakfast for the Giza Plateau, then continues to the Grand Egyptian Museum in the afternoon, on the full western bank of Cairo in a single day on this 4 day Cairo tour.
You'll approach on foot from the eastern face, the angle where all three pyramids align, and their scale becomes disorienting before you're even close. The Great Pyramid of Khufu was the world's tallest structure for 3,800 years; your guide will point out the precision of the casing stones still visible at the base.
Your guide walks you through the granite hall where 23 statues of Khafre once stood in alabaster niches, each weighing several tons. From the outside, it looks like a sealed block; inside, the scale of the monolithic columns, each cut from a single piece of Aswan granite, is genuinely vast.
Stand at the lower viewing terrace where the Sphinx's full 73-metre length is visible from ground level, not from above. Your guide will explain the New Kingdom stele between its paws and the ongoing debate about the water erosion marks on its body that place its origins earlier than most textbooks suggest.
In the afternoon, explore the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Egypt’s newest cultural treasure. From Tutankhamun’s golden collection to thousands of artifacts displayed with advanced technology, GEM offers a modern and immersive window into the history of Egypt.
Breakfast and Lunch
Your guide collects you after breakfast for a full day in central and medieval Cairo, the second city layer that most 4 day Cairo tour itineraries compress into a half-day.
You'll move through the upper floor first, where the Royal Mummy Room holds 27 pharaohs, including Ramesses II, whose face is visible, the linen wrappings intact after 3,200 years. Your Egyptologist guide takes you through the Amarna gallery before the crowds reach it, where Akhenaten's distorted limestone portraits are unlike anything else in the building.
From the northern terrace, you'll look out over a city of 22 million with medieval minarets in the foreground and the Giza Plateau visible on clear days some 15 kilometres south. The Citadel has been Cairo's military and administrative centre since Saladin built it in 1176. Your guide will walk you through the sequence of rulers who expanded it.
Step inside and you'll find yourself under a central dome 52 metres high, the interior cool and dim after the courtyard heat outside. The alabaster panels covering the lower walls — the reason it's called the Alabaster Mosque were cut from the same quarry used at the Pyramids of Giza.
The Royal Mummies Hall here holds 22 pharaohs and queens transferred from the Egyptian Museum in 2021 — each in a climate-controlled individual case, displayed horizontally at eye level so you see the faces clearly.
You'll walk the full length of the street, roughly one kilometre, past 13th-century Mamluk gates, Fatimid minarets, and restored merchant houses that have been standing since the 10th century. The street was Cairo's main commercial artery for over a thousand years; your guide will identify the buildings by dynasty as you pass them.
You'll enter from the Al-Hussein end, where the spice and incense stalls open onto a covered market that has traded continuously since 1382.
Breakfast and Lunch
Breakfast at your hotel, then private transfer to Cairo International Airport. Check-out is handled by the Tripidays representative. You leave Egypt with memories that will stay with you for a lifetime until your next journey with Tripidays. If you'd rather travel further south after Cairo, you can upgrade your Cairo trip with a flight to Luxor.
Breakfast
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This 4 day Cairo tour includes airport transfers, 3 nights at your chosen hotel, a Nile dinner boat on Day 1, a licensed Egyptologist guide, private vehicle throughout, and entrance fees to the Giza Pyramids, Great Sphinx, Valley Temple, Grand Egyptian Museum, Egyptian Museum, Salah El Din Citadel, Mohamed Ali Mosque, NMEC, Al Muizz Street sites, and Khan El Khalili. Daily breakfast and lunches on Days 2 and 3 are also covered.
Yes. Four days is enough to cover Cairo’s essential attractions, including the Giza Pyramids, Sphinx, Grand Egyptian Museum, Saqqara, Egyptian Museum, Citadel, and Old Cairo, while still enjoying cultural experiences and leisurely exploration.
This is the only 4-day package that combines both major Cairo museum collections, the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza and the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, alongside the full Islamic Cairo route in a single itinerary, all hotel-based without any intercity travel. If you want to compare a multi-city option, you can add Alexandria as a day trip from Cairo.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, opened near the Giza Plateau, is the largest archaeological museum in the world by floor area. It houses over 100,000 objects, including the complete Tutankhamun collection of more than 5,000 artefacts displayed together for the first time.
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