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All Inclusive Half-Day Private Tour to Giza Pyramids and Sphinx including Lunch

Recommended by 100% of travelers

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Cairo, Egypt

4 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Overview

Discover more than 4,000 years of Egyptian history in a half-day private tour from your Cairo or Giza hotel. Visit the Giza Pyramids and learn about ancient Egypt from your Egyptologist guide. Take a camel ride through the desert and see the Sphinx and Valley Temple. Finish with a local lunch included.

Private half-day tour to Giza Pyramids and Sphinx with hotel pickup
Camel ride through the ancient desert for unique photos
Enjoy a sit-down local lunch after your tour
Private transfers with onboard Wi-Fi from your Cairo or Giza hotel

What's Included

Transport by private vehicle with free WiFi
30-minute camel ride
Qualified Egyptologist guide
Lunch
Entrance fees

Gratuities
Extra entrance fees (interior of Giza pyramids, Solar Boat museum
Coffee and/or Tea

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

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Pickup details

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Operating hours
.9:00 am

Itinerary

The Pyramids Of Giza

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Dress code is smart casual
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Stroller accessible

Infant meals not included
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Most travelers can participate
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

5.0

based on 25 reviews

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Fantastic tour with guide Mimo for group aged from 2years old to 72years old

Lindsay_J, May 2026

We really enjoyed our half day Giza pyramids tour, our guide Mimo was fantastic, he took very good care of us. We were a group of6 people, aged ranging from 2years old to 72years old and Mimo managed to make it safe, fun and interesting for everyone! We enjoyed learning about the pyramids and Sphynx, as well as the camel ride and the apothecary house and Papyrus making. Lunch at the restaurant was great too. Our driver Ashraf was very good, we couldn’t have asked for more!

Response from Host, May 2026

Reading this back, the line that stays with us is the age range — two to 72. That spread is one of the harder briefs a guide can be handed on a private Giza pyramids tour, and it sounds like Mimo read each of you carefully: when to lean into the story of the Sphinx, when to slow down in the shade, when to keep the two-year-old engaged while the 72-year-old took in a moment. That pacing is the part of guiding that doesn't show up in itineraries. We'll pass your words to him directly — guides feel reviews like these. We're glad the rest of the morning held up too — the camel ride, the apothecary house, the papyrus demonstration. On a half-day Giza tour it's easy to rush past those and treat them as filler, but they're what makes the experience sit with you after the photos are done. A multigenerational table of six leaving lunch happy is its own quiet result. And a separate thank you to Ashraf, our driver. Drivers aren't background — a calm, safe road between the hotel and Giza sets the tone for everything Mimo does once you're on the plateau. If Egypt pulls you back, we'd love to show you the depth beyond the half-day — the Upper Egypt sites, the threads that don't fit into a morning's window. For now, thank you for trusting six of us with six of you. Safe travels. — The Tree of Life Tours team

Perfect experience

st890337, Mar 2025

Here’s the English translation of your passage: --- Today, we joined a half-day tour to the Pyramids and the Sphinx, which we booked through Viator. It came with a private guide and driver. Before coming here, we had already heard about the notorious scams around the pyramids, but after experiencing it firsthand, I didn’t think it was that scary—maybe because we had our guide Yasser with us. Our guide was amazing—he was funny and had a great sense of humor. When we arrived at the pyramids, he helped us take all kinds of photos and videos until we were satisfied. While we were riding camels, he even carried our backpacks and walked alongside us the entire way. Seriously, where can you find such a great guide like him? Of course, since Egypt is known as a “tipping country,” tips are expected—but they won’t force you to give. Other than some upscale restaurants that charge a sales tax, you can tip however much you feel comfortable with. At noon, we had lunch with Yasser and our driver Solba at a local Egyptian restaurant. Yasser ordered us a grill mix (which I jokingly called a “carcinogenic platter” ), but it was actually a pretty tasty Egyptian meal. After that, they drove us back to our hotel. To sum up my final impression of Egypt—there are security checks and police inspecting bags and cars everywhere. But I really like Egyptian people. They’re warm, kind-hearted, and very genuine. No matter where you go, people say hi or ask to take photos with you. But if you stop for a photo, more and more people will keep coming. If I had more time, I’d stop for every one of them. Even if you don’t buy anything, just saying “thank you” is enough—they won’t get upset. It feels like interacting with a friend—natural and relaxed. Thank you, Egypt, for everything. As I write this, I’m getting teary-eyed. This journey has brought me so many wonderful encounters, and I’m truly reluctant to leave. Our trip is almost coming to an end. Wait for me, Egypt! One day, I’ll definitely be back. LOVE EGYPT --- Let me know if you'd like this in a more poetic, travel-blog style!

Response from Host, May 2026

Dear traveler, The line we want to elevate first is the one you wrote almost in passing — "where can you find such a great guide like him?" Yasser has been one of the recurring names on this listing for years, and the kind of guiding you described — funny, attentive, the willingness to carry backpacks while walking alongside camels for the entire ride — is what consistent reviews have been pointing to. It's not the kind of attention that fits on an itinerary. It's the kind that shows up when the guide treats the day as the traveler's, not as a task to complete. Several specific moments deserve a note back. The photo-and-video patience — "helped us take all kinds of photos and videos until we were satisfied" — is the version of guide-photography that respects the traveler's pace rather than the schedule's. Some guides take three photos and move on; the right ones wait until you say the shot is right. The backpack moment is the one that says the most about Yasser specifically: carrying luggage on foot while a guest rides a camel is an unrequested kindness, not part of the tour description, and it's the kind of detail that doesn't get instructed at training. It comes from how the guide sees the day. The lunch at the local restaurant — and your "carcinogenic platter" joke about the grill mix — is one of those moments that doesn't make it into a brochure. The Egyptian grill at a local table, eaten with the guide and driver rather than as a separated tourist meal, is a different category of food experience from the standard tour-bus lunch. We're glad Yasser and Solba took you somewhere that felt like Egypt, not a restaurant designed for tourists. The reflection at the end of your review — about Egyptian people, the warmth, the willingness of strangers to greet and take photos — is what most travelers come away with, but few write down. "It feels like interacting with a friend — natural and relaxed." That sentence captures something about Cairo that we couldn't put on the listing without it sounding like marketing. You said it the way only a traveler can. Thank you for that. If Egypt ever brings you back — and given how you closed the review, it sounds like it will — the natural next step from a Cairo half-day is the Upper Egypt arc: Luxor, Aswan, Abydos. The same warmth, the same kind of guiding, extended across multiple days with temples and the Nile and longer dinners that don't have to fit into a half-day window. Wait for Egypt — Egypt will wait for you. Until then, we'll pass your words to Yasser and Solba directly. Thank you for the review. — The Tree of Life Tours team

Fatima was awesome!

brianfcorbin, Feb 2023

We could not have been happier with our guide Fatima. She was flexible with us, made it interesting for our little kids, took wonderful family photographs, and had detailed knowledge of everything we asked about. I wish we’d booked all of our excursions in Cairo with her - great kid-friendly tour that was a lot of fun for the adults too.

Perfect from start to finish

Paul_M, Mar 2021

A great day from start to finish thanks to Fatima who is as knowledgeable as she is passionate about Egyptian history. I couldn't have asked for anything more. Looking forward to the next tour.

Just amazing and better with a guide. Excellent value

Mark_I, Aug 2019

Pyramids speal for themselves. The guide (Ashraf) was very knowledgeable and the driver perfect for getting through the chaos of Cairo with minimum stress

absolute must do if in cairo, cannot...

malcom n, Oct 2017

absolute must do if in cairo, cannot express how well everything whent couldn't see any other way to do all the sites of Egypt so quickly and efficiently while skipping all the tourist traps ect, would highly recommmend