Many people visit Egypt in a packaged tour along with other people or a private trip depending on the budget. I am not a fan of a packaged tour and I’d like to have my itineraries customized to what I’d like to do. Yes, I am that picky with itinerary. So here I want to show you that you can create your own Egypt itinerary and it can be done without having to sign up for a packaged tour if you are not a fan of one like me.
To be able to do this I get a help from local Egyptian travel called Aswan Individual owned by Waleed. Even though Waleed is based in Aswan he can arrange tours and cars for us in other cities as well. Waleed got helped from Rachel who is in charge of all the correspondence with the tourist while Waleed is the man on the ground who organizes the guides, cars etc. Rachel is very responsive with her emails while I am fixing our itinerary and once we landed in Egypt we start communication with Waleed using Whats app messages. I picked and chose which day I’d need help from Aswan Individual and which day I will organize on my own and it worked perfect. I get the itinerary which covers everything we want to do in private group setting and have days where we can do things on our own pace.
I went on this trip with my Besties celebrating our 10+ years of friendship. It is a tight pack itinerary because we want to do so many but we don’t have much time as we really can’t leave our families and work for too long.
This itinerary covers all Egypt must see and do and we also flew to Jordan on our last days to visit Petra (One Bestie insisted that Petra is her long-life dream so it has to be in the itinerary). There are other places worth visiting in Jordan but as we don’t have much time we focus on Petra only.
Day 1:
Fly to Cairo with GA/Etihad (1755-0435).
Day 2:
Landing Cairo at 0435.
Stayed 2 nights in Four Season Hotel at Nile Plaza.
Coptic Cairo and hanging church. Mosque of Muhammad Ali and citadel
Bazaar Khan el kalili and lunch in Naguib mahfouz café (inside Khan El Khalili)
Al Azhar Park
All of this are DIY with the help of London Cab which you can order using their application on mobile phone just like Uber.
Day 3:
Pyramid Tour: Dahshur, Saqqara, Pyramid of Giza and Sphinx
Day 4:
Egypt museum in the morning
Fly to Aswan 1655-1815 with Egypt air
Stayed one night at City Max Hotel
Day 5:
Check out hotel
Day trip to Abu Simbel at 04.30am (guided)
Check in cruise, lunch and start sailing. Stop to visit Kom Ombo (guide)
Dinner in cruise
Day 6:
Edfu temple (guided)
continue sailing towards Luxor
Luxor temple (guided)
Dinner in cruise
Day 7:
Breakfast and Check out fro the cruise ship.
Stayed 2 nights at Winter Pavillon Hotel Luxor
Karnak Temple in the afternoon and Aida Opera at night
Day 8:
Luxor ballon ride and West Bank tour.
Day 9:
Check out Hotel and fly Luxor to Cairo 0550-0700 and Cairo to Amman with Egypt Air (1205-1320)
Stayed in Hotel Fairmont Amman
Day 10:
Breakfast. Check out Hotel and use hotel car to go to Petra. Drop luggage in Petra guest house and explore Petra.
Stay the night in Petra Guesthouse
Day 11:
Breakfast at hotel.
Check out and leave at 10am to airport (quick stop at Dead Sea)
Fly back with Emirates 1710-1545
