Meet your guide in the lobby of your hotel to start your tour.

The Grand Egyptian Museum ‘GEM’ is set to become the largest archaeological museum in the world, and its soft-opening showcases a comprehensive preview of more than 15,000 artifacts spanning Egypt's history. Begin at the main visitor’s entrance where you find the ‘hanging obelisk’. This one-of-a-kind obelisk is suspended by four columns, and you get to see it as you stand on its base and look directly into its interior which contains the rare cartouche of King Ramses II, concealed for more than 3,500 years. As you make your way inwards, you will behold the colossal statue of King Ramses II, exhibited at the entrance atrium. It is made entirely of red granite, weighing 83 tons and more than 30 feet high.

Make your way towards the grand staircase to find a rare statue collection of famous pharaohs, including that of King Senusret I, amongst 55 artefacts that depict the “journey towards eternity."

Next, you will explore the newly opened main galleries, offering visitors an exclusive preview of twelve meticulously curated exhibition halls. From the stone tools and pottery of the earliest human settlements along the Nile to the artifacts of the Graeco-Roman era, the exhibits will highlight the evolution of one of the world’s most remarkable civilizations.

End your visit with a stroll through the commercial area which boasts an array of shopping and food outlets.

Disclaimer: Once fully open, the Grand Egyptian Museum will house the ‘golden’ treasures of King Tutankhamun as well as rest of his collection that will be shown in its entirety for the first time. At the moment, King Tut ‘golden’ treasures are still displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Downtown Cairo.

Lunch at Local Restaurant

The Great Pyramids of Giza are the only present-day survivors of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built over 4,500 years ago as giant tombs for the mummies of the pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who were a father, son and grandson. The pyramids are truly monumental in scale, with the largest, Khufu's, constructed from over two million blocks. The pyramids were not built by slaves but by Egyptian peasants, whose labor in building the pyramids paid their taxes to the Pharaoh, who also fed, clothed and housed them. Nearby sits the enigmatic Sphinx with the body of a lion and the face of a man wearing a royal head cloth, which workers may have based on King Khafre to guard his enormous funerary monument. About a thousand years after the Sphinx was built it was covered in sand until a young prince had a dream in which the Sphinx told him that if he cleared the sand away, he would become Pharaoh. This story is told on the 'Dream Stela' that was placed between the Sphinx's paws by King Tuthmose IV.

At the end of your tour, you are transferred to your hotel.

Welcome dinner at the hotel

Meals: Breakfast-lunch-dinner