The Step Pyramid, the Red Pyramid you can climb inside, Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid and the open-air museum of the old capital. Far fewer people than Giza.
- Best time
- Any season; go in the morning
- Rami's tip
- Rami knows the tomb of Irukaptah and a few others most visitors never see.
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Tours that go here
Tours through Saqqara
3 nights
Cairo Essentials
Four days, every must-see, and a rooftop with the pyramids in it
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from$850per person
7 nights
Cairo & the Coast
A week around the capital, with Alexandria and the Fayoum desert
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from$1,315per person
10 nights
Pharaohs' Trail
Cairo, the coast, and three nights in Luxor
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from$2,020per person
13 nights
Nile to Red Sea
Two weeks: Cairo, Upper Egypt and the Sinai coast
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from$2,660per person
15 nights
Grand Egypt
Cairo, a Nile cruise, a Nubian village and a week by the Red Sea
GizaCairoSaqqara, DahshurAswan
from$2,705per person
16 nights Spiritual
Sacred Egypt
Seventeen days through the temples, with a night under the stars at Abusir
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from$3,155per person
20 nights
The Complete Egypt
Three weeks, from the Nile to the Red Sea to the White Desert
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from$3,280per person