8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum Tour | Bastet Travel

Name: 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum Tour | Bastet Travel
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Discover Egypt in 8 Days Cairo tour — pyramids, Alexandria coast & Fayoum oasis with private guides & all fees included.

Alexandria / Cairo

Duration 8 Days / 7 Nights

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Tour Type Private Tours

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Three thousand years of civilization, one Mediterranean coastline, and a desert oasis unlike anything else on earth the 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum Egypt Tour Package by Bastet Travel brings all of it into a single, intelligently paced private itinerary that covers Egypt's most rewarding destinations from north to south.

Discover 8 Days Cairo & Its Outstanding Landmarks

Four thousand years of royal ambition are concentrated within a one-hour radius of central Cairo, and the 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum itinerary opens here at the Pyramids of Giza, the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, before moving south through the pyramid fields of Saqqara, Memphis, and Dahshur to trace the full evolutionary arc of Egyptian monumental architecture. These 8 Days Cairo unfold against a backdrop of extraordinary geographic variety: the limestone plateau of Giza, the desert necropolis of Saqqara, the medieval Islamic skyline of the Salah El-Din Citadel, and the ancient Coptic quarter of Old Cairo all appear within the first four days before the itinerary broadens outward to Alexandria and Fayoum. The result is an Egypt Tour Package that treats Cairo not as a single-day stopover but as the multi-layered, civilizationally dense capital it genuinely is.

What distinguishes these 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum from a standard Egypt itinerary is the deliberate inclusion of destinations that most Cairo-based packages leave entirely off the map. Alexandria the Mediterranean city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC and the intellectual capital of the ancient world for over seven centuries sits 220 kilometers north of Cairo and delivers a completely different historical and atmospheric register. Fayoum Oasis, 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo, is Egypt's largest natural oasis and one of its most geologically distinctive landscapes, combining the freshwater Lake Qarun (remnant of the ancient Lake Moeris, over two million years old) with the cascading Wadi El Rayan waterfalls the only natural waterfalls in Egypt. The 8 Days Cairo program is built so that each departure from the capital feels like a genuine discovery, not a detour.

Deep Dive into the Landmarks with 8 Days Cairo

Cairo — Giza Plateau

The Pyramids of Giza comprising the Great Pyramid of Khufu (c. 2560 BC, originally 146.5 meters, constructed from approximately 2.3 million stone blocks), the Pyramid of Khafre (recognizable by its intact upper limestone casing at 136 meters), and the Pyramid of Menkaure (the smallest of the three, at 65 meters) form the architectural and emotional core of these 8 Days Cairo. The Great Sphinx, carved from a single outcrop of natural bedrock and measuring 73 meters in length and 20 meters in height, stands immediately east of the Pyramid of Khafre and is believed to represent Pharaoh Khafre himself. The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square opened in 1902 and housing over 120,000 ancient artifacts including the complete Tutankhamun treasury of 5,000 gilded and jeweled objects anchors the afternoon of Day 2 of these 8 Days Cairo.

Cairo — Saqqara, Memphis & Dahshur

Saqqara is the largest ancient necropolis in Egypt, covering approximately 7 kilometers of desert plateau and serving as the royal burial ground of Memphis ancient Egypt's first capital for over 3,000 years. Its centerpiece is the Step Pyramid of Djoser, designed by the architect Imhotep around 2650 BC as the world's first large-scale cut-stone structure and the direct architectural predecessor of the true pyramid form. Memphis itself, located in the nearby village of Mit Rahina, preserves a colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II and the enormous Alabaster Sphinx in an open-air museum. Dahshur, 10 kilometers south of Saqqara, contains the Bent Pyramid of Sneferu (c. 2600 BC) uniquely preserving its original polished limestone outer casing and the Red Pyramid, the world's first true straight-sided pyramid and the third largest in Egypt, both within these 8 Days Cairo.

Cairo — Islamic & Coptic Quarter

The Salah El-Din Citadel the medieval hilltop fortress begun by Saladin in 1176 AD on the Muqattam Hills above Cairo served as Egypt's seat of government for over 700 years and commands panoramic views across the entire capital. Within its walls, the Mohammed Ali Mosque (completed 1848) is an Ottoman-style structure with twin 84-meter minarets and an alabaster-lined interior modeled after the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Old Cairo the Coptic quarter established within the walls of the Roman fortress of Babylon (1st century AD) contains the Hanging Church (formally the Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church), built above the southern gatehouse of the Roman fortress and dating to the 3rd–4th century AD, and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the oldest synagogues in Egypt, where the Cairo Geniza a cache of 300,000 Jewish manuscript fragments was discovered in 1896, both essential stops in these 8 Days Cairo.

Alexandria

Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC and became the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt and one of the greatest intellectual centers of the ancient world, home to the legendary Library of Alexandria and the Lighthouse of Alexandria (one of the Seven Wonders). Pompey's Pillar a 26.85-meter red Aswan granite column erected in 297 AD in honor of Emperor Diocletian is the largest ancient monolith in Egypt outside of Aswan. The Qaitbay Citadel, a 15th-century Mamluk sea fortress built in 1477 AD by Sultan Qaitbay on the precise site of the ancient Lighthouse, stands at the entrance to the Eastern Harbor. The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, discovered in 1900 and dating to the 2nd century AD, represent the largest known ancient funerary complex in Egypt a three-level rock-cut tomb blending Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman artistic traditions. The modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina, inaugurated in 2002 on the historic site of the ancient library, and the Montazah Palace gardens, a 150-acre royal estate on the Mediterranean coast, complete the Alexandria day of these 8 Days Cairo.

Fayoum Oasis

Fayoum Oasis 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo, accessible via a scenic desert highway is Egypt's largest natural oasis and one of its oldest continuously inhabited landscapes, with agricultural settlements dating back to 5000 BC. Lake Qarun, occupying the northern section of the depression, is a saltwater remnant of the ancient Lake Moeris described by Herodotus and covering approximately 233 square kilometers at an elevation of 43 meters below sea level. Wadi El Rayan, a protected natural area gazetted in 1989, contains the only natural waterfalls in Egypt a series of cascading channels connecting two artificial lakes at different elevations alongside desert dunes, hot springs, and fossil beds from which significant prehistoric marine fossils have been excavated. Both Wadi El Rayan and Lake Qarun are essential to the Fayoum day in these 8 Days Cairo.

Spectacular Highlights of the Journey with 8 Days Cairo

Pyramids of Giza: Private guided tour of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Pyramid of Khafre, and Pyramid of Menkaure the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World and the centerpiece of these 8 Days Cairo
Great Sphinx: Full guided access to the 73-meter monolithic limestone figure carved from a single bedrock outcrop around 2500 BC
Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square: Guided afternoon covering the Tutankhamun treasury, royal statuary, and over 120,000 ancient artifacts in Egypt's foundational archaeological collection
Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara: The world's first large-scale cut-stone structure, designed by Imhotep around 2650 BC and the direct forerunner of the true pyramid form
Memphis Open-Air Museum: Colossal Ramesses II limestone statue and the Alabaster Sphinx at ancient Egypt's first capital
Bent Pyramid & Red Pyramid, Dahshur: The only pyramid in Egypt retaining its original outer limestone casing (Bent Pyramid) alongside the world's first true straight-sided pyramid (Red Pyramid) both less visited and more accessible than Giza
Salah El-Din Citadel & Mohammed Ali Mosque: Medieval hilltop fortress with panoramic views of Cairo and Ottoman-style mosque with alabaster-lined interior
Old Cairo: Guided tour of the Hanging Church, Ben Ezra Synagogue, and the Roman fortress walls of Babylon
Optional Felucca Ride on the River Nile: Traditional wooden sailboat experience on the Nile at sunset, available on Day 4
Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria: The largest ancient monolith in Egypt, a 26.85-meter granite column dating to 297 AD
Qaitbay Citadel: 15th-century Mamluk sea fortress built on the site of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria
Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa: The largest ancient funerary complex in Egypt, a three-level rock-cut tomb blending Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman art
Bibliotheca Alexandrina: The modern reinvention of the ancient Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002
Montazah Palace Gardens: 150-acre royal estate on the Alexandria Mediterranean coastline
Wadi El Rayan Waterfalls: The only natural waterfalls in Egypt, within a protected desert reserve
Lake Qarun, Fayoum: A vast saltwater remnant of the ancient Lake Moeris, 43 meters below sea level
Optional Nile Cruise & Khan El Khalili Bazaar: Free-day options available on Day 7 of these 8 Days Cairo

What You Will Love About This Tour with 8 Days Cairo

The full pyramid timeline in a single trip: Most Egypt packages visit Giza and stop. These 8 Days Cairo continue south to Saqqara, Memphis, and Dahshur the three sites that show exactly how the pyramid evolved from a stepped mastaba to the world's first true geometric pyramid across 150 years of royal engineering
Alexandria as a genuine day destination: At 220 kilometers from Cairo, Alexandria is the kind of city most short Egypt tours skip entirely. These 8 Days Cairo dedicate a full day to it enough time to cover the Catacombs, the Qaitbay Citadel, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Montazah seafront without rushing
Fayoum is Egypt's best-kept landscape secret: The Wadi El Rayan waterfalls and Lake Qarun are genuinely unlike any other site on an Egyptian itinerary no monuments, no ticket queues, just geological drama and open desert horizon that the 8 Days Cairo schedule reserves a full day to explore
Private tour format throughout: Every transfer, every monument visit, and every lunch in these 8 Days Cairo operates on a private basis no shared buses, no waiting for other groups, and a guide who adjusts the pace to your interests
Meals and logistics fully covered: Daily breakfast at the hotel, local lunches at good restaurants, bottled water, a local SIM card with Wi-Fi, and all entrance fees are included the 8 Days Cairo are designed to eliminate daily expenditure decisions from the travel experience
Islamic, Coptic, Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman heritage all in eight days: The Salah El-Din Citadel, Old Cairo, Giza, Saqqara, and Alexandria's Greco-Roman layer give these 8 Days Cairo a civilizational breadth that single-era tours simply cannot match

Everything Included in Your Experience with 8 Days Cairo

The 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum package covers every logistical element of your journey without exception. From the moment you land at Cairo International Airport, a Bastet Travel representative provides meet-and-assist service and a private air-conditioned vehicle transfer to your hotel. Seven nights of accommodation in a 4-star or 5-star Cairo hotel (with daily breakfast) serve as your base throughout, with all day-trip transfers operating from and returning to the same property. A private Egyptologist guide accompanies every excursion. All entrance fees are included at the Pyramids of Giza, Egyptian Museum, Step Pyramid of Saqqara, Memphis, Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid at Dahshur, Salah El-Din Citadel, Mohammed Ali Mosque, Old Cairo churches and synagogue, Pompey's Pillar, Qaitbay Citadel, Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Montazah Palace Gardens, Wadi El Rayan, and Lake Qarun. Local lunches at quality restaurants are provided on all touring days. Bottled water is supplied throughout every trip. A local SIM card with Wi-Fi is provided on arrival. All service charges and taxes are included. The 8 Days Cairo package is fully comprehensive no hidden costs arise during the tour.

Conclusion

The 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum Egypt Tour Package from Bastet Travel is the most geographically complete private tour available for the Cairo-based circuit, combining the Pharaonic pyramid fields of Giza, Saqqara, and Dahshur with the medieval Islamic and Coptic layers of the capital, the Greco-Roman heritage of Alexandria, and the natural grandeur of Fayoum Oasis in eight logistically seamless days. For travelers who want more than the standard two-pyramid, one-museum Cairo itinerary, these 8 Days Cairo deliver the full picture.

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Included & Excluded

Included

Meet and Assist in the airport.
Our assistance during your stay.
All transport by private air-conditioned vehicle.
Accommodation for 7 nights in Cairo hotel with breakfast.
Private guided tours.
Local Lunch in a good local restaurant.
Entry fees to all sites as per itinerary.
Bottled water during trips.
Local SIM card with WIFI.
All service charges & taxes.

Excluded

Entry visa to Egypt
Personal expenses
Optional activities
Tipping

Tour Itinerary

The 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum journey begins at Cairo International Airport, where a Bastet Travel representative meets you with a personalized arrival board and guides you through the meet-and-assist process. A private air-conditioned vehicle transfers you directly to your hotel for check-in. The remainder of Day 1 is intentionally unscheduled — the 8 Days Cairo are designed so that the first afternoon and evening belong entirely to you, whether you choose to rest, walk the neighborhood around your hotel, or simply orient yourself to the pace of the Egyptian capital before the touring days begin. Overnight in Cairo.

After breakfast, a private vehicle takes you directly to the Giza Plateau for a professionally guided morning at the Great Pyramid of Khufu — the largest of the three, built from approximately 2.3 million stone blocks with a base perimeter of 920 meters — the Pyramid of Khafre, the Pyramid of Menkaure, the Great Sphinx, and the area surrounding the Valley Temple. Your guide provides structural, historical, and astronomical context at each monument, covering the construction logistics, the religious purpose, and the historical rediscovery of the plateau. Following a local lunch at a restaurant near Giza, the afternoon moves to the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square — opened in 1902, housing 120,000 ancient artifacts, and still the world's most densely stocked single collection of Pharaonic material. The Tutankhamun galleries are the highlight, with the golden funerary mask, gilded wooden throne, and royal mummy among the objects your guide will prioritize. An optional Sound & Light Show at the Pyramids is available for guests wishing to extend the evening into these 8 Days Cairo' most iconic site after dark. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 3 of the 8 Days Cairo travels south through the pyramid fields that precede and explain Giza. The first stop is Saqqara — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world's largest ancient necropolis — where the Step Pyramid of Djoser (c. 2650 BC) stands as the oldest large-scale cut-stone structure in human history. Designed by the architect-physician Imhotep, later deified for his genius, the pyramid rises in six stepped tiers to 60 meters and is surrounded by the funerary complex of Djoser including dummy buildings, courts, and the Serdab statue chamber. The tour continues to Memphis at Mit Rahina, the ancient capital of the unified Egyptian state, where the open-air museum preserves a colossal Ramesses II limestone statue and a massive Alabaster Sphinx. The final stop is Dahshur — quieter and far less visited than either Saqqara or Giza — where the Bent Pyramid of Sneferu (c. 2600 BC) retains the most complete outer limestone casing of any pyramid in Egypt, and the adjacent Red Pyramid represents the world's first successful attempt at a true, straight-sided pyramid form. These 8 Days Cairo include Dahshur precisely because it closes the architectural narrative that Giza opens. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 4 of the 8 Days Cairo ascends to the Salah El-Din Citadel on the Muqattam Hills — the medieval fortress begun in 1176 AD by Saladin ibn Yusuf, Sultan of Egypt, as a military fortification against Crusader expansion. The citadel served as the seat of Egyptian government from the 13th century until the 19th century and its hilltop position offers the most comprehensive panorama of Cairo available from any publicly accessible point in the city. Within the citadel walls, the Mohammed Ali Mosque is the dominant structure — an Ottoman-style building with a hemispherical dome, twin minarets reaching 84 meters, and an interior sheathed in alabaster panels brought from Beni Suef. The afternoon descends into the heart of Old Cairo and the Roman-era Coptic quarter, where the Hanging Church — suspended above the twin towers of the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and containing a remarkable collection of Coptic icons — stands alongside the Ben Ezra Synagogue, whose geniza chamber preserved 300,000 medieval Jewish manuscript fragments for nearly a millennium before their 1896 discovery. An optional Felucca ride on the River Nile at sunset is available to close the evening of these 8 Days Cairo in a distinctly unhurried way. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

A 220-kilometer drive north along the Desert Road takes the 8 Days Cairo itinerary to Alexandria — Egypt's Mediterranean city, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC and the Ptolemaic capital for three centuries. The day opens at Pompey's Pillar, a 26.85-meter monolithic red-granite column erected in 297 AD within the precinct of the ancient Serapeum temple — the largest ancient monolith in Egypt outside of Aswan. A short drive leads to the Qaitbay Citadel, the 15th-century Mamluk sea fortress built in 1477 AD directly on the foundations of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Below the citadel headland, the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa — a three-level rock-cut funerary complex carved in the 2nd century AD and large enough to have accommodated 300 dining guests at memorial feasts — blend Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman artistic vocabularies in a manner unique to Alexandria's cultural position. The afternoon visits the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a circular titanium-and-glass structure inaugurated in 2002 on the presumed site of the ancient library, and the Montazah Palace gardens — a 150-acre royal estate on the northeastern Mediterranean coast with gardens, beaches, and seafront promenade. The 8 Days Cairo return to the capital by evening. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 6 of the 8 Days Cairo departs early for Fayoum Oasis, 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo — Egypt's largest natural oasis and one of its most geologically ancient landscapes. The first destination is Wadi El Rayan, a protected natural reserve established in 1989 covering 1,759 square kilometers of desert terrain. Within the reserve, Wadi El Rayan's waterfalls — the only natural waterfalls in Egypt — cascade between two artificial lakes at different elevations, surrounded by sand dunes, fossil beds containing Eocene-era whale skeletons, and desert hot springs. The tour then moves to Lake Qarun, the vast saltwater lake in the northern section of the Fayoum depression that represents a shrunken remnant of the ancient Lake Moeris — recorded by Herodotus in the 5th century BC and covering over 1,700 square kilometers in antiquity. At 43 meters below sea level, Lake Qarun has no outlet and supports a distinct ecosystem of migratory birds and aquatic species within this landscape that gives the 8 Days Cairo their most purely natural day. Overnight in Cairo. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.

Day 7 of the 8 Days Cairo is reserved as an open day in the Egyptian capital — structured around the guest's own preferences and pace. For those who want to use it actively, Bastet Travel offers three optional programs: a River Nile dinner cruise covering the illuminated central Cairo waterfront; a guided shopping visit to Khan El Khalili bazaar — the medieval market established in 1382 AD in the heart of Islamic Cairo, still the city's most authentic commercial district; or a curated Cairo hidden sites tour covering lesser-known neighborhoods and monuments. Guests who prefer to rest, arrange independent dining, or revisit a site from an earlier day are equally accommodated. The 8 Days Cairo build this open day into the structure deliberately — eight consecutive days of monuments, however well-paced, benefit from a day that the traveler controls. Overnight in Cairo.

After a final breakfast at the hotel, a private air-conditioned vehicle transfers you to Cairo International Airport for your departure flight. The 8 Days Cairo, Alexandria & Fayoum tour concludes with the same quiet professionalism with which it began — a Bastet Travel representative handles the airport send-off, and the journey home begins with the full weight of eight days of Egyptian civilization behind it. Meals: Breakfast.