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The guide to discovering Luxor, Cairo and the desert

Our guides

Abu Simbel from Hurghada is a 2- or 3-day trip, not a day excursion: our first choice is the private tour w...

Our pick: the 3-day (2-night) package from Hurghada with a hot air balloon flight over Luxor, a 5-star boat...

To see Cairo from Hurghada in one day, our first choice is the excursion with a return flight, such as From...

Our first choice for Luxor from Hurghada is the small-group trip with the Tutankhamun tomb: the best rated ...

Our pick: the one-day air-conditioned van tour with a guide and hotel pickup, sold on GetYourGuide, for any...

For a first quad safari in Hurghada, our top pick is the 2-hour quad tour to Makadi Bay (from $17, rated 4....

For an evening for two, the adults-only sunset cruise with snorkeling and dinner is the most romantic choic...

The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of the best-preserved temples in Egypt and the most underrated day t...

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The desert safari is the most booked land excursion in Hurghada. It leaves from the hotels in the...

The Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, holds the tombs of New Kingdom ph...

The Giza pyramids are about 450 km from Hurghada, on the far side of the Eastern Desert. The day ...

Mons Claudianus is a Roman granodiorite quarry, a grey stone flecked with black, worked in Egypt'...

Mons Porphyrites, the "porphyry mountain" (Gebel Abu Dukhan in Arabic), is the only known quarry ...

Hatshepsut's temple, at Deir el-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, is the mortuary temple of the queen-...

Karnak is the largest religious complex of ancient Egypt, a group of temples, pylons and obelisks...