Votre guide et votre responsable vous attendront à l'extérieur du point d'amarrage de la croisière. Ils tiendront une pancarte indiquant votre nom. Il vous sera assez facile de les identifier. Ensuite, vous vous dirigerez vers votre véhicule et commencerez votre visite. Votre guide vous parlera non seulement de l'histoire de l'Égypte ancienne, mais aussi de l'Égypte moderne, de la vie, de la religion, de la politique et de tous les aspects de la vie dans le pays. Le voyage de Port-Saïd au Caire durera environ 3 heures.

After the drive from Port Said, you reach the Giza Plateau and stand beneath the Great Pyramid of Khufu, 2.3 million stone blocks raised 4,500 years ago and the only ancient wonder still standing. Your Egyptologist walks you to the panoramic viewpoint where all three pyramids line up and down to the Great Sphinx. The visit is focused around the cruise schedule, but you get the real story.

You step aboard a Nile cruise boat for lunch as Cairo slides by from the water, a calm change of pace after the plateau. A buffet of Egyptian and international dishes is served while a live show unfolds, usually a folkloric dance and a tanoura performer spinning in a swirl of colored skirts. From the deck you see the city from its oldest highway, the river that made all of this possible. It is the easy, enjoyable heart of the day.

On the way back you usually stop at a papyrus institute, where a short demonstration shows how the Nile reed was soaked, pressed, and dried into the world's first paper thousands of years ago. You see the process start to finish and can pick up genuine hand-painted papyrus if you like, a flat, packable souvenir. There is no pressure to buy. Then it is the long drive back to Port Said in time to reboard your ship.