Egypt and Petra Tour

Day by day

The plan as the operator publishes it. Exact timings are confirmed with your booking.

1. Day 1 Arrival Cairo - Welcome to land of the Pharaoh’s

   Arrive at Cairo International Airport, where your Memphis Tours representative meets you inside the terminal, assists with passport control and baggage, and escorts you to your air-conditioned vehicle.
2. Day 2 Pyramids & Sakkara

   After breakfast, meet your Egyptologist and begin at the Giza Plateau. Explore the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx and the Valley Temple, with time at the panoramic viewpoint for photographs across all three pyramids.
3. Day 3 The Grand Egyptian Museum

   A full morning and afternoon at the Grand Egyptian Museum, where the complete treasures of Tutankhamun are displayed together for the first time since their discovery, alongside collections spanning five thousand years.
4. Day 4 Fly Cairo to Amman - Hello Jordan

   Enjoy breakfast and a relaxed morning before your transfer to Cairo International Airport, where you are assisted through check-in for your flight to Jordan. On arrival at Queen Alia International Airport you are met and driven to your Amman hotel, your base for the next three nights.
5. Day 5 Madaba - Dead Sea Tour

   Head out with your English-speaking driver to Mount Nebo, the ridge from which Moses is said to have looked out over the Promised Land — on a clear day you can see across the Jordan Valley to the hills beyond.
6. Day 6 Ancient City of Petra Tour

   An early start for the drive south to Petra, around two and a half hours each way through the Jordanian highlands. At the site, walk down to the entrance and through the Siq — a gorge over a kilometre long, its walls rising sheer on both sides — until it opens without warning onto the Treasury…
7. Day 7 Amman - Fly Back Home

   Enjoy breakfast and a final morning in Amman. Depending on your flight time, luggage storage can be arranged at the hotel should you wish a last look at the city.