Overnight Tour to Cairo & Fayoum From Cairo

Day 1: Great Pyramids & Egyptian Museum

You will be picked up from your accommodation in either Cairo or Giza by your Egyptologist Guide; you will start the day by visiting the Giza Plateau which is only about 30 minutes from Cairo where your Egyptologist Guide will provide a fascinating introduction to each of the three pyramids: Cheops, Khafre and Menakaure. 

A short distance to the city side of the plateau finds you standing at the feet of the Sphinx, for thousands of years the enigmatic symbol of Egypt! Also in Giza, you may visit the valley temple wich belongs to the pyramids of Chephren.

Then you will visit the Egyptian Museum of antiquities. Here is displayed the largest and most precious artefacts of Egyptian items and art in the world. The Museum exhibits a rare collection of over 250,000 genuine artefacts that date as far back as 5000 years, including an exclusive exhibit dedicated to King Tutankhamon. 

Day 2: El Fayoum Oasis And Wadi El Rayan - Departure

In the early morning, our tour representative will pick you up from your hotel. Then you will be transferred by an air-conditioned vehicle to El Fayoum city that is located about 95 km away from Cairo.

Upon arrival, you will head to Wadi Hitan (Valley of the Whales, designated by UNESCO as a world Heritage as it contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. Then move on to Al Mudawara Mountain (Jebel al- Mudawara).

Then move on to Wadi Al Ryan Waterfalls that is considered to be Egypt’s only permanent waterfall and it was formed in 1970 by an overflow of drainage water from the farmlands in Fayoum. Late

After that, you will visit the ancient city of Medinet Madi that is uncovered and it is situated about 30 kilometers southwest of El Fayoum city. The name of the place “Medinet Madi” means “the city of the past” and it dates back to the third pharaonic dynasty and was built by Amenemhet III and then completed by Amenemhet IV.

At the end of the day tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo.