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Cairo – Grand Egyptian Museum

~23 h (00:00–23:00)Minivan: Tuesday & Sunday · private car (€145 pp): dailyHistory & culture

The experience

This is the day you finally stand in front of the Great Pyramid. After the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, you step into the brand-new Grand Egyptian Museum, where a giant statue of Ramses II welcomes you and, for the first time, the complete treasure of Tutankhamun – his golden mask included – is shown together. A long journey from Hurghada, and one of the great museum visits of the world.

Duration~23 h (00:00–23:00)

RunsMinivan: Tuesday & Sunday · private car (€145 pp): daily

PickupEarly morning, Hurghada hotel

PriceFrom €100 · Per person

ChildrenAsk for child prices

About the places you'll visit

The story behind each stop, so you arrive knowing what you're looking at.

Pyramids of GizaOld Kingdom · c. 2600–2500 BC2–3 hours

Three kings of the 4th Dynasty built their pyramids on the desert edge west of the Nile: Khufu, his son Khafre, and Menkaure. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still standing.

The Great Pyramid was about 146 m high when finished and is about 139 m today
Built from roughly 2.3 million stone blocks
It was the tallest human-made structure on Earth for about 3,800 years
Khafre's pyramid still has some of its smooth limestone casing near the top
Small queens’ pyramids stand beside the kings’ pyramids

The Great Sphinxc. 2500 BC · reign of Khafre30–45 minutes

A lion with the head of a king, most likely Khafre, carved from a single ridge of limestone. It guards the way up to his pyramid, next to his granite Valley Temple.

About 73 m long and 20 m high
The largest ancient statue carved from one rock
Sand covered it up to the neck for most of its history
Its nose was already missing centuries before Napoleon reached Egypt

Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)Opened November 20253–4 hours

The largest museum in the world dedicated to one civilisation, built beside the Giza Plateau. For the first time, the complete treasure of Tutankhamun is shown together in one place.

Around 100,000 objects in the collection
The full Tutankhamun collection: about 5,000 objects, including his golden mask
A colossal 11 m statue of Ramses II welcomes visitors in the atrium
The Grand Staircase is lined with royal statues and ends with a view of the pyramids
Tickets for foreigners are sold online only

Did you know?

How many pyramids are there in Egypt?

Archaeologists have identified between about 118 and 138 pyramids in Egypt, depending on how they count ruined ones. Most stand on the desert edge west of the Nile, from Giza south to Fayoum.

The oldest: the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, around 2670 BC
The first true pyramid: the Red Pyramid at Dahshur
The largest: the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza
Later pyramids were made of mud brick and have mostly collapsed, like Hawara in Fayoum
After about 1550 BC the kings stopped building pyramids and were buried in hidden tombs in the Valley of the Kings