Petra and Pyramids- 4 Day Tour
‘In my case it was love at first sight. This desert, all deserts, any desert.’
The Journey Home – 1977 Edward Abbey.
This tour can start in Jordan, Egypt or from Eilat- Israel. Highlights of Jordan and Egypt, we offer a selection of short Petra, Wadi Rum, Cairo and Pyramid tours and
customize all tours to suit individual requirements
- Petra Pyramids tour- 4 days
- Petra Pyramids - including Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine Monastery
- option adding day in Luxor
- Accommodation options- Petra
- Optional extra night in Wadi Rum
- Aqaba overnight for the night before the tour
Petra Pyramids 4 days tour 
These four days Jordan and Egypt tour begins in Eilat where we enter Jordan. We recommend spending the night before the tour in Aqaba to get the Jordan visa fee waived (60$ per person). See more information below.
In Egypt you will find below the option of adding into the program the climb to Mt. Sinai and visiting the Monastery of St. Catherine on the way from Eilat to Cairo.
Day 1 – crossing assistance, join the group and we head straight for Petra. At the entrance to the site we leave our vehicles and commence the walk (horses optional) to the imposing Siq Canyon. A 1/2 hr walk through its towering canyon walls leads us into Petra. We tour the lost city on foot, exploring the main archeological sites. We stop for a refreshing buffet lunch at a restaurant within the site. Free time will be giving to you in Petra at the afternoon. You may choose the optional climbing to the monastery on top of Jabel (Mt.) A Deir.
We check into our hotel in the village near Petra or make our way to our 3* hotel in Petra or to a Bedouin camp where we enjoy our evening meal and settle for the night in a Bedouin guest tent. Here we have the opportunity to observe the awe-inspiring desert night-skies and the mysterious and enchanting views of the desert.
Day 2 – Following breakfast we board 4X4 jeeps, driven by professional Bedouin drivers and journey to the famous sandstone area of Wadi Rum. We go off-road into its unique landscape and get well off the beaten track to explore rarely traveled ancient merchant routes. We enjoy a picnic lunch in the great outdoors whilst taking in some of the Rum’s most outstanding sights and scenery. The tour includes the Seven Pillars, Khaz Ali canyon and Jabel Um Asharin. We continue off-road through the Rum and by afternoon we will cross the borders through Israel to start our long journey to Cairo.
The drive to Cairo takes now about 8 hours. Since you depart in the late afternoon, right after your Jordan tour, we strongly recommend that we will book for you a night in hotel in Cairo. This way you can get a few hours sleep upon arrival. Without having the hotel room you might have to wait few till the sites are open. Travelers on a budget can spend a few hours in Eilat after the Jordan tour and then cross into Egypt later around 23:00, that will bring right in time for breakfast in Cairo.
Day 3 – Travelers who drive: in the Morning we reach Cairo where first we take a short break to enjoy a refreshing breakfast. Travelers who spent few hours resting in the hotel will have breakfast there. Rested and ready to go we commence a tour that explores the greatest highlights of Cairo and delves into its incredible history and rich Egyptian heritage. We begin this tour at the very symbols of Egypt and its past The Great Pyramids of Giza (one of the wonders of the ancient world) and the Sphinx. We explore this impressive site taking in the many interesting facts and sights along the way. You may add the pyramids of Memphis and Sakkara for a supplement (recommended). After lunch, we tour the highlights of Old Cairo. In the afternoon/ evening we take a faluka sailing boat on the Nile.
Having finished our tour of this area we head to our hotel (4*) where we settle in.
Optional Evening Activities:
– Dinner at a quality local restaurant – $30pp. incl the car
– Nile Dinner Cruise –65 $pp. incl the car
– Sound and Light Show at Giza (pyramids) – $42pp. incl the car
Our recommendations for additional sites:
-the new Egyptian Museum $29 per person
– Entering INSIDE the pyramid – 25$pp (tour does include entering the Pyramid site)
– Museum’s Mummy chamber 25$
– Tour Memphis and Saqqara 20$pp (Additional to the visit of the Pyramids of Giza)
Day 4 – Following breakfast we spend the morning exploring the world renowned Cairo Museum. Here much of Egypt’s priceless treasures are found including the riches of Tutankhamun. After lunch, we take, the sights and sounds of the colorful Khan El Khalili bazaar. If time allows, we will visit the famous Mohamed Ali mosque.
In the early afternoon we will start our way back to the border crossing, it will take about 8 hours and we will get in the middle of the night.
We recommend spending the night in a resort on the Red Sea near Taba instead of spending the night in Eilat. Prices are usually lower than in Eilat and you will not have to cross the border in the middle of the night after a very long ride from Cairo.
If you continue to Eilat the night you return from Cairo, then we will assist you on the Egyptian side of the border but you will cross independently on the Israeli side. We will give you cash to pay for a taxi to your hotel in Eilat. Taxies are usually available at the exit of the crossing. If not, please ask one of the security guards at the border to call a taxi for you. They will assist you with this.
You will need a night in a hotel either in Eilat or in Taba- Sinai near the border at the end of your tour.
Tour price with the overnight drive to Cairo:
2 people – 1240$ per person, 3 people – 1170$, 4 people – 1080$. children under 12, 150$ discount.
supplement for first night in 4* hotel in Cairo: 55$ per person – highly recommended
including: everything as listed, including accommodation, all meals, mineral water, entrance fees, transportation, guides, border assistance etc.
not included: Jordan Israel border taxes – 75$ p.p. & tips ( 10 $ p.p. per day min), Jordanian visa (60$) not inc. drinks with meals in restaurants (as standard practice), a full Egyptian visa (applying at the border if you don’t have 1) + Israel/Egypt border taxes 130$ p.p. in total.
please note: prices quoted above are for 3* hotel in Jordan and 4* in Egypt.
single room supplement: 115$ in case of 2 nights in hotel 175$ if 3 nights.
private tours: 2-3 people- 230$ more per person. 4-6 people- 190$ more p.p.
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Petra Pyramids 4 days tour
These four days Jordan and Egypt tour begins in Eilat where we enter Jordan. We recommend spending the night before the tour in Aqaba to get the Jordan visa fee waived (60$ per person). See more information below.
In Egypt you will find below the option of adding into the program the climb to Mt. Sinai and visiting the Monastery of St. Catherine on the way from Eilat to Cairo.
Day 1 – crossing assistance, join the group and we head straight for Petra. At the entrance to the site we leave our vehicles and commence the walk (horses optional) to the imposing Siq Canyon. A 1/2 hr walk through its towering canyon walls leads us into Petra. We tour the lost city on foot, exploring the main archeological sites. We stop for a refreshing buffet lunch at a restaurant within the site. Free time will be giving to you in Petra at the afternoon. You may choose the optional climbing to the monastery on top of Jabel (Mt.) A Deir.
We check into our hotel in the village near Petra or make our way to our 3* hotel in Petra or to a Bedouin camp where we enjoy our evening meal and settle for the night in a Bedouin guest tent. Here we have the opportunity to observe the awe-inspiring desert night-skies and the mysterious and enchanting views of the desert.
Day 2 – Following breakfast we board 4X4 jeeps, driven by professional Bedouin drivers and journey to the famous sandstone area of Wadi Rum. We go off-road into its unique landscape and get well off the beaten track to explore rarely traveled ancient merchant routes. We enjoy a picnic lunch in the great outdoors whilst taking in some of the Rum’s most outstanding sights and scenery. The tour includes the Seven Pillars, Khaz Ali canyon and Jabel Um Asharin. crossing to Eilat and to the Sinai in Egypt, have dinner near the border crossing and drive for the night in a nice Bedouin hostel or 3* hotel near Mt. Sinai.
Day 3 –Very early morning climb to Mt. Sinai for the sunrise, following breakfast we will visit the Monastery of St. Catherine. Later we will drive to Cairo and arrive there in the afternoon (drive time is around 8 hours). This option will shorten your time in but will still allow us to visit on that day the Market of Khan El Khalili and taking the Felucca sailboat on the Nile. Night in 4* hotel
Day 4 – Following breakfast we will visit the pyramids, the museum and the sphinx. If time allows we will visit the famous Egypt Museum. In the earlier afternoon we will start our way to the border crossing where we will get in the middle of the night.
We recommend spending the night in a resort on the Red Sea near Taba instead of spending the night in Eilat. Prices are usually lower than in Eilat and you will not have to cross the border in the middle of the night after a very long ride from Cairo.
If you continue to Eilat the night you return from Cairo, then we assist you on the Egyptian side of the border but you will cross independently on the Israeli side. We will give you cash to pay for a taxi to your hotel.
Taxies are usually available at the exit of the crossing. If not, please ask one of the security guards at the border to call a taxi for you. They will assist you with this. You will need a night in a hotel either Eilat or on the Red Sea at the end of your tour.
Tour price incl mt. Sinai and Bedouin hostel on day 2:
2 people – 1220$ per person, 3 people – 1160$, 4 people – 1130$. Children under 12, 130$ less.
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Tour in Luxor
For those who have the time and can add another day to the 4 days programs above, we highly recommend the option of adding a day in Luxor Egypt (following the 1st day of Cairo).
That will force us to take an expensive flight from Cairo to Luxor and back or to use the night train instead. we will visit Luxor (Thebes) capital of ancient Egypt , here we find the most spectacular temple complexes of ancient Egypt. We will be able to cover the Valley of the Kings, Karnack temple, experience the Faluca on the beautiful Nile there and visit the local market.
Adding a day to 1 of the programs above will cost: 2-3 people- 370$ p.p. 4 people- 350$ p.p. (Incl the night train from Cairo and back) 5 people or more: 340$ p.p.
Sgl sup. in the train- 35$ p.p. per way
Taking flights instead of the night train will cost around 350$ more p.p. than the train
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Accommodation options- Petra
The tour price includes 3* hotel
3* hotels like La Maison, Tetra hotel or similar:Low season – no supplement, High season supplement – 10$pp, single supplement– 50$pp
*5 Hayat Zaman Resort(Built on the ruins of old Arab village): Low Season Supplement – 65$pp / High Season – 105$pp. Single Supplement: low season – 65$pp / high season – 100$pp
5* Deluxe Movenpick Petra hotelLow Season Supplement – 125$pp / High Season – 210$pp. Single Supplement: low season – 125$pp / high season – 175$
Bedouin’s camps near Petra:
7wonders Bedouin Camp/Little Petra Camp (Recommended): Low Season Supplement – 15$pp / High Season – 25$pp. Single Supplement– 55$pp
Little Petra Luxury Camp – Tent(with private bathroom): Low Season Supplement – 50$pp / High Season – 62$pp. Single Supplement – 55$pp
Luxury Camp – Dome 7wonders(with private bathroom): Low Season Supplement – 84$pp / High Season – 95$pp. Single Supplement – 80$
5*Petra Bubble Luxotel camp Low Season Supplement – 160$pp / High Season – 190$pp. Single Supplement – 180$pp
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Optional extra night in Wadi Rum– Guests wishing to spend an additional night in Wadi Rum at the end of the tour choose among a regular Wadi Rum camp, 4* camp or a luxury one. We collect the following morning for the return drive to Eilat.
Planet camp basic rooms (shared toilet and bathroom): supplement – 125$pp. Single Supplement – 30$pp
Planet camp luxury (rooms includes private toilet and bathroom) supplement – 165$pp. Single Supplement – 35$pp. recommended (not suitable for the summer months)
Golden Valley camp 4* (rooms includes A/C, private toilet and bathroom, Wi-Fi) – supplement – 115$pp. Single Supplement – 40$pp – recommended
Wadi Rum Camp 4* (rooms includes A/C, private toilet and bathroom, NO Wi-Fi) supplement – 175$pp. Single Supplement – 55$pp – recommended
Al Sultana Camp 4* (standard tent includes A/C, Wi-Fi, private toilet and bathroom): supplement – 200$pp. Single Supplement – 50$pp
UFO bubble 5* Camp: (includes A/C, private toilet and bathroom): supplement – $235 pp, single supplement – $115
Luxotel Bubble camp, (includes A/C, private toilet and bathroom): supplement – $285 pp, single supplement – $180
Aicha Memories (includes A/C, private toilet and bathroom):
- Junior Suite (luxury tent): $238 per person in double, single supplement $115.
- Executive luxury tent: $285 per person in double, single supplement $150.
- Panoramic suite – bubble: $315 per person in double, single supplement $250.
Incl: Bedouin camp, 2 meals, transfer back on the next morning to Eilat
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Aqaba overnight options for the night before the Petra tour:
We encourage visitors to Petra to spend an additional night in Aqaba before their tour. Apart from the $60 savings at Petra, people staying two nights also get the $60 visa for free. On top of that hotels in Aqaba are cheaper than those in Eilat and the later morning pickup times mean guests get to enjoy breakfast in their hotel before the tour begins.
People who choose to spend a night in Aqaba before their tour will receive transportation right to their hotel, including help crossing the border.
We offer a wide selection of hotels just minutes away from Eilat in the town of Aqaba on the Red Sea. Visitors who choose to stay in Aqaba benefit from lower room rates than those staying in Eilat in addition to the advantages mentioned. In Aqaba in order to have a good level of hotel and sea front location you will have to reserve 5* hotel.
Selection of hotels to stay for min of 2 people:
4* City Tower or Jordan Seasons (recently opened): Low Season Supplement – 105$pp / High Season – 115$pp. Single Supplement – 65$
4* La Costa: Low Season Supplement – 113$pp / High Season – 125$pp. Single Supplement – 72$
5* Hilton Doubletree (recommended) located in city center – Low Season Supplement – 159$pp / High Season – 170$pp. Single Supplement – 53$
5* DLX Movenpick Aqaba, Kempinski, Intercontinental, Al Manara: Contact us about prices
Include: 1 night based on 2 people sharing a room, 2 meals (HB), transfer from Eilat to the border and to hotel in Aqaba.
The price has to be added to the price of your tour to Petra.
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