Day trip from Aswan to the National Egyptian Museum of Civilization

We drive you to the airport for the quick trip to Cairo after picking you up from your Aswan accommodation very early in the morning. Your guide is waiting for you when you land, and we head directly to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat. Your guide assists you in selecting the exhibits that are worth pausing for in this light-filled, contemporary museum that chronicles Egypt's history from antiquity to the present. You can also go to the Royal Mummies Hall if you'd like.

From there, we travel to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, the historic pink structure that has housed antiquated Egyptian artifacts for almost a century. There's always something unexpected around the corner, and it's busier and more atmospheric than the first museum. To avoid getting lost among hundreds of items, your guide walks you through the highlights. After that, we visit Abdeen Palace, which was constructed in the 1860s and thereafter functioned as the government's seat. It's a pleasant change of pace after two days of museums crammed into one, and your guide tells you the tales of the rulers who lived and worked here.

In the late afternoon we take you back to the airport for your flight to Aswan. When you land, we drop you at your hotel, after a long day that took you from the Nile in the south to the heart of Cairo.