Your guide and driver collect you from your Cairo hotel at 08:00. The drive to Saqqara (approximately 30 km south of Cairo) takes around 45 minutes through the agricultural Nile Delta landscape.

Explore the vast Saqqara plateau, including the Step Pyramid of Djoser (c. 2650 BC), the Pyramid of Unas with its interior Pyramid Texts, the beautifully decorated tombs of the nobles such as Mereruka and Kagemni, and the Serapeum.

Visit the ancient capital of Egypt, now an atmospheric open-air museum, to see the colossal alabaster Sphinx and the enormous fallen limestone statue of Ramses II.

Drive to the rarely crowded Dahshur pyramid field. Climb inside the Red Pyramid — one of Egypt's most accessible pyramid interiors — and admire the curious angular shape of the Bent Pyramid, which illustrates the evolution of Egyptian pyramid building in real time.

Return journey to your Cairo hotel in the late afternoon.