Places and experiences
- Cairo Tower, Tahrir Square and Al-Azhar Park
- The Whirling Dervish Show, a Sufi performance in Cairo
- The sound and light show at the pyramids and at Karnak
- El Gouna Marina and the Suez Canal at Port Said
Planning your visit
Evenings are a good time for the shows and for the city, when the heat has gone. Ask us to add one to your trip.
Good to know
These are easy additions to a Cairo or Red Sea stay, and most take an evening or a morning. Tell us what you enjoy and we will suggest the places that fit your trip and your dates.
Cairo
Easy Whirling Dervish Show
The Whirling Dervish show at the Wekalet el-Ghouri in Cairo presents an authentic Sufi sema ceremony in a 16th...
Port Said
Easy Suez Canal (Port Said)
The Suez Canal at Port Said carries 12–15% of all global maritime trade through a 193-km channel — watching su...
Cairo
Easy Cairo Tower
Cairo Tower is the highest accessible viewpoint in central Cairo — a 187-meter lotus-pattern concrete tower bu...
Aswan
Easy Aswan High Dam
The Aswan High Dam is one of the 20th century's most consequential engineering projects — the dam that created...
El Gouna
Easy El Gouna Marina & Downtown
El Gouna is the Red Sea's most architecturally distinguished resort town — a 30-year-old private development o...
Cairo
Easy Al-Azhar Park
Al-Azhar Park is Cairo's most significant modern urban space — a 30-hectare garden built on a 500-year-old deb...
Luxor
Easy Sound & Light Show at Karnak
The Sound and Light Show at Karnak is Egypt's most dramatic evening spectacle — a guided walking tour through ...
Giza
Easy Sound and Light Show at the Pyramids
The Sound and Light Show at the Giza Pyramids is an evening illuminated spectacle running since 1961, offering...
