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Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock temples in Abu Simbel in Nubia southern Egypt.The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Nubi

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Egypt Tours from India

Since 1955, Egypt Tours Plus has designed private, tailor-made Egypt tours from India for travellers who want the country done well: four and five-star hotels, a private Egyptologist guide, and a personal driver throughout. Every itinerary is 100% customisable and shaped entirely around you. Tell our specialists what you want from Egypt, and that is exactly what they will plan.

Your Guide to Egypt Tours from India

Everything an Indian traveller needs to plan a private Egypt tour is below: direct and connecting flights from the major metros, the visa process for Indian passport holders, the best months to travel, how many days to set aside, what a premium private tour costs and includes, and the practical details that matter on the ground, from currency to vegetarian dining.

Most Egypt tours sold from India compete on a single thing: price, which usually means a large group, a three-star hotel, and a shared coach. Egypt Tours Plus has always worked the other way: private, tailor-made journeys with four and five-star hotels, your own Egyptologist guide, and a personal driver throughout. It is the considered alternative to the budget package, and unapologetic about being one.

Private, Tailor-Made Touring

Your Egypt tour package is designed for your party alone and built from a blank page rather than pulled off a shelf. On land your touring is private, with your own Egyptologist guide and personal driver, so the pace is yours: a multi-generation family can take the Pyramids slowly, and the plan can shift mid-trip whenever something catches your eye. The one shared element is the small-group shore excursions on a Luxury Nile Cruise, taken with fellow guests from your vessel.

Egyptologist Guides Who Know Their Subject

Every touring day is led by a qualified Egyptologist, a specialist who has studied the temples and tombs you are standing in, not a general courier working from a script. Their English is fluent and their knowledge runs deep, and guides in other languages can be arranged on request. It is the difference between being shown Egypt and genuinely understanding it.

Visitors standing in silhouette before a wall of carved ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs at a temple in Egypt. Egypt tours from India.
Hieroglyphs fall silent without someone to read them. A private Egyptologist turns a wall of symbols into the story it was carved to tell.

A Dedicated Travel Concierge and 24/7 Support

From your first enquiry, one named Travel Concierge owns your trip: they draft the itinerary, refine it with you, and stay reachable while you travel. With Egypt only a few hours behind India, your daytime overlaps Egypt’s working hours, so questions are answered the same day rather than the next. Once you land, our in-country team is on call around the clock for the whole of your stay.

Awarded TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Every Year Since 2020

Egypt Tours Plus has won the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice award every year from 2020 through 2025, a ranking decided purely by traveller reviews rather than advertising spend. For discerning Indian travellers comparing operators for a trip of this scale, that is the signal worth weighting: six straight years of guests rating these journeys among the best anywhere.

Egypt Tours from India

Flights from India to Egypt: Routes and Logistics

Egypt is closer to India than most travellers assume. Mumbai to Cairo is under six hours non-stop, Delhi a little over six, and the cities without a direct service connect through the Gulf in comfortable time. For a destination that feels a world away culturally, it is reassuringly quick to reach. Here is how the routes work.

Direct Flights from Delhi and Mumbai

EgyptAir flies non-stop to Cairo from both Delhi and Mumbai, and Air India operates the Delhi route as well, between them giving several departures a week year-round. Mumbai is the quickest at around five and three-quarter hours, while Delhi is roughly six and a half.

Flights generally leave around the middle of the day and reach Cairo in the afternoon, which leaves the evening to settle in before touring begins. For travellers in or near the two metros, a direct flight is the simplest way to arrive, and the easiest on which to start the trip rested.

Connecting Flights from Other Indian Cities

From Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and elsewhere, the usual route is a single stop through a Gulf hub. Emirates via Dubai, Etihad via Abu Dhabi, and Qatar Airways via Doha all link their Indian gateways to Cairo, typically putting the city within nine to thirteen hours door to door, connection included. These hubs run frequent, well-timed services on modern wide-body aircraft, and the final leg into Cairo is short.

Your Travel Concierge can suggest the routing that best suits your home city and dates, while the international ticket itself is one you book directly with the airline.

Time Zone and Jet Lag

India runs two and a half to three and a half hours ahead of Egypt, the exact gap shifting with Egypt’s daylight saving: three and a half hours in the Egyptian winter, two and a half in summer. Because India keeps the same time all year, that is the whole of it. A difference this small barely registers as jet lag, so you arrive on close to your own body clock and begin the next morning fresh. Keeping in touch is just as easy, with Egypt’s afternoon falling in India’s early evening.

Schedules and fares between India and Cairo move through the year, and seats tighten quickly around Diwali, the year-end holidays, and the summer school break. Booking flights early protects both your timing and your price.

The arrivals hall of Terminal 2 at Cairo International Airport, with signage in Arabic and English, where international flights from India arrive.
With only a few hours’ time difference, most travellers from India clear the Cairo arrivals hall feeling fresh rather than frayed, with the trip starting on the right foot.

Most Indian travellers begin with one of four itinerary shapes and tailor from there. None is a fixed package; each stretches, shortens, or combines until it fits your dates, your party, and the Egypt you came for.

Classic 8 to 10-Day Egypt Tour

The route most first visits take: Cairo for the Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum, then south for the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, with your private Egyptologist guide and driver on every touring day. The sailing is aboard a five-star Luxury Nile Cruise vessel, panoramic cabins, pool decks, proper dining, rather than the budget boats, and the hotels at each end are four and five-star throughout. Eight days covers the essentials comfortably; ten adds Abu Simbel or an unhurried extra day in Cairo.

The Great Pyramids of Giza with visitors riding camels across the desert sand in the foreground, on the Giza plateau outside Cairo.
The Pyramids stand right at the edge of Cairo, not deep in empty desert, so the first morning of the tour reaches them in minutes from the city.

Egypt Tour with a Dahabiya Cruise

For travellers who want the Nile at its most exclusive, a luxury dahabiya cruise is the quiet alternative to the larger vessels: a traditional twin-masted sailing boat carrying just 8 to 16 guests, mooring at islands and villages the big ships pass by. No engines, no crowds, just sails, fresh cooking, and the river at its own pace. It is the choice for honeymooners and for anyone who values space and seclusion over the bustle of a full-size cruise.

Traditional twin-masted dahabiya sailing boats on the Nile between Esna and Aswan, the small-capacity vessels used on a luxury dahabiya cruise.
With no more than 16 guests under sail, a dahabiya is the closest the Nile comes to a private yacht: your own stretch of river, away from the larger vessels.

Egypt and Red Sea Combination

After the temples and the river, a few days on the Red Sea round the trip off, and the coast’s five-star resorts make a natural fit with a culture-first itinerary. The water is warm and exceptionally clear, with reefs among the world’s finest. Hurghada offers the widest resort choice, Marsa Alam further south is quieter with superb reefs offshore, and Sharm El Sheikh pairs world-class diving with the desert mountains of Sinai. A coastal finish usually brings the whole itinerary to 10 to 15 days.

A palm-lined Red Sea beach with sun umbrellas at a resort in Egypt, the coastal finish on a culture-first Egypt tour.
The temples earn the rest that follows: a few days at a five-star Red Sea resort, where the only thing scheduled is the shade you pick.

Egypt with a Multi-Country Extension

Egypt pairs naturally with its neighbours, and for Indian travellers one combination stands out: Dubai. Many routings already connect through it, so turning the stop into a stay adds a glittering modern contrast for very little extra flying.

Jordan is the other favourite, with Petra and Wadi Rum a short flight from Cairo and only three or four days needed. Turkey and Greece extend the ancient world further, and Morocco suits the longest journeys.

Multi-country trips generally run 14 to 23 days, and your Travel Concierge weights the days so each country is travelled properly, not merely sampled.

A woman in a white hat on a balcony overlooking the Dubai skyline and its high-rise towers, in the United Arab Emirates, a popular add-on on multi-country Egypt tours.
From 4,500-year-old stone to the world’s tallest tower in one trip: Dubai is the easy modern counterpoint to ancient Egypt, a short hop from Cairo.

Best Times to Travel to Egypt from India

Egypt’s finest season, October to April, lines up almost perfectly with the months Indians most like to travel. The weather is dry and warm, daytime temperatures sitting around 20 to 25°C with cool evenings, and the window takes in Diwali, the year-end holidays, and the long winter break. It also lands just as the monsoon clears at home, which is part of the appeal: a clean change of air and light after the rains.

Month by month, here is how to choose.

Peak Season: December and January

These are Egypt’s best months, clear, dry, and comfortably warm by day with crisp evenings, and they coincide with the year-end school holidays that make family travel easiest. Demand is at its highest, though: the Christmas-to-New-Year fortnight is the busiest stretch on the Egyptian calendar, and the best Luxury Nile Cruise vessels and hotels sell out months ahead at the year’s top rates.

If your trip falls in this window, booking early is the single most valuable thing you can do.

Sweet-Spot Months: October, November, February and March

For travellers with flexible dates, these are the months that reward it: the same excellent weather, thinner crowds, and gentler prices. October and November are dry and golden, and Diwali often falls here, opening a natural festival-season window that lands in beautiful Egyptian weather. February and March stay warm and calm, ideal for unhurried sightseeing once the peak has passed. For a first visit without school dates attached, this is where the value and the comfort meet.

Shoulder and Summer: April to September

April holds fine weather, warm without the summer edge, though Easter week brings a brief spike worth booking around. From May the heat builds, and June to August, which overlaps India’s main summer school holidays, is genuinely hot, regularly past 35°C and more in Luxor and Aswan.

Plenty of Indian families travel then regardless, and the trip works well with the right design: early starts at the monuments, the air-conditioned galleries of the Grand Egyptian Museum through midday, and a Red Sea finish where the sea breeze does the cooling.

The reward is the year’s lowest prices and the quietest sites. May and September are the gentler versions of the same.

Egypt’s two highest-demand windows are Christmas through New Year and Easter week, when the finest hotels and vessels sell out four to six months ahead. Travelling in the sweet-spot months covered above secures the same Egypt at a noticeably easier rate.

The Great Sphinx of Giza with a pyramid behind it under a clear blue sky on the Giza plateau outside Cairo.
In summer the Sphinx is a first-light visit: an hour after sunrise the air is still cool, the sky this clear, and the enclosure quiet before the heat arrives.

How Many Days for an Egypt Tour from India?

With Cairo under six hours non-stop from Mumbai and a comfortable connection from the rest of India, the flight does not dictate the trip, so the real question is how much of Egypt you want to do well. One clarification first: the day counts below are days in Egypt itself. Your flights sit on top, though at this distance a travel day at each end takes only a small bite. A tour worth taking this far is worth giving a little room.

8-Day Egypt Tour from India

Eight days covers the essential Egypt without cutting corners: Cairo and the Grand Egyptian Museum, then the flight south for the Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan, all of it private and on four and five-star footing. With the short flight times, it fits a single week of leave or a school break comfortably. It is a complete trip rather than a rushed one, and the natural starting point for a first visit.

Our 8-day Egypt tour packages show the shape.

A cabin on a Luxury Nile Cruise vessel with twin beds and a window overlooking the Nile, the five-star accommodation on the Luxor to Aswan sailing.
Cabins come twin or double, so a family or two friends share comfortably, and on a five-star vessel the river is the view from your window all the way to Aswan.

10 to 12-Day Egypt Tour from India

The range most travellers settle on once they look closely, and the one that suits the premium approach best. Ten days takes the hurry out entirely, with room for Abu Simbel or a slower run through Cairo; twelve opens a genuine second chapter, with Red Sea days after the temples, a Lake Nasser cruise, or the seven-night sailing in place of the standard three. Give Egypt this long and it stops being a checklist.

Browse our Egypt in 10 days and 12-day Egypt itineraries.

The facade of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel with its four seated colossi of Ramses II carved into the sandstone, in Egypt's far south.
The four seated colossi of Ramses II stand around 20 metres tall, carved to make anyone arriving by river feel the full weight of his reign. Abu Simbel.

14-Day Egypt Tour from India

A fortnight opens two directions. Deeper into Egypt: the Western Desert oases, the full-length river including Abu Simbel and Lake Nasser, and the quieter temples day trips never reach. Or across a border: Egypt anchoring a two-country journey, most naturally with Jordan, where Petra sits a short flight from Cairo. Two very different fortnights, neither of them stretched.

Our 14-day tours of Egypt cover both.

Camels resting in front of the rock-cut Treasury, Al-Khazneh, at Petra in Jordan, the Nabataean monument paired with Egypt on a 14-day tour.
This is the outward fortnight’s reward: the Treasury at Petra, where the Nabataeans carved a city from rose-red rock, with Bedouin camels still resting at its foot.

15+ Days: The Longer Routes

Past two weeks, Egypt becomes the anchor of a proper grand tour. Dubai adds a modern coda and slots in for little extra flying, Jordan brings Petra, Turkey and Greece extend the ancient world, and Morocco suits the longest itineraries. Most two-country trips run 14 to 23 days, three countries longer again, with your Travel Concierge weighting the legs so each country is travelled rather than ticked off.

Our 15-day Egypt vacations and multi-country Egypt tours show how they fit together.

Aerial view of the Parthenon and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, in golden sunset light.
Athens crowns a grand tour: the Parthenon above, and below it the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a Roman theatre from 161 AD that still stages concerts today.

Egypt Tour Package Inclusions and Pricing

An Egypt Tours Plus quote is a single, all-in figure for your time in Egypt, with nothing essential left to add later. It covers your four and five-star hotels, every domestic flight within Egypt, the Nile cruise or dahabiya leg with all meals aboard, and the core of the service: a private Egyptologist guide on each touring day, your own driver and air-conditioned vehicle, every transfer from arrival to departure, and entrance tickets to the headline sites. Breakfast comes with every hotel night, and our in-country support line is staffed around the clock for as long as you are in Egypt.

What sits outside the quote is short and clear: your international flights between India and Cairo, travel insurance, the Egyptian e-visa (US$25), lunches and dinners away from the cruise, drinks, and the customary tipping for guide, driver, and crew.

Optional experiences, such as a dawn balloon flight over Luxor or special-entry tombs, are quoted openly when you ask for them, never added quietly.

A hot air balloon floating over an ancient Egyptian temple complex on Luxor's west bank at sunrise during golden hour.
From the balloon basket, Luxor’s west bank lays itself out below: mortuary temples, the green Nile valley, and the desert beyond, all in the first gold light.

What an Egypt Tour Costs

Egypt Tours Plus is not the cheapest way to see Egypt, and has never set out to be. The price reflects what the trip actually is: private throughout, on four and five-star footing, with your own Egyptologist guide rather than a place on a group departure. Every itinerary is built to order, so pricing comes as ranges rather than a fixed tariff. Per person per day, based on two sharing:

  • Mid-range: US$200 to US$350 per person per day. Well-chosen four-star hotels, a standard Luxury Nile Cruise vessel, and the full private guide-and-driver service.
  • Premium: US$400 to US$600 per person per day. Five-star properties, superior vessels or a dahabiya, and finer dining and touring throughout.
  • Luxury: US$600 to US$1,000 and up per person per day. Egypt’s best suites and vessels, private charters, and the most exclusive access available.

In rupees, those bands work out to roughly ₹19,000 to ₹33,000, ₹38,000 to ₹57,000, and ₹57,000 to ₹95,000 and up per person per day at recent exchange rates. Treat the rupee figures as orientation, since the rate moves; your Travel Concierge prices your actual itinerary precisely.

One note on timing: over Christmas through New Year and Easter week, the finest hotels and vessels run well above mid-season and sell out four to six months ahead. The sweet-spot months covered earlier on this page deliver the same Egypt at a noticeably easier rate.

A visitor posing with the Great Sphinx of Giza using forced-perspective photography on the Giza plateau.
The obligatory Sphinx photo: a little forced perspective, a lot of laughing, and a picture that comes home from every trip to Giza.

India-Specific Practical Information

Egypt Visa Requirements for Indian Citizens

Indian passport holders need a visa for Egypt, arranged before you travel, since visa-on-arrival is not generally available to Indian nationals. The simplest route is the official e-visa: apply online, pay US$25 for a single entry valid for 30 days, and carry the printed approval. Processing usually takes five to ten working days, so apply at least two to three weeks ahead to be comfortable.

A consular visa through the Egyptian Embassy in New Delhi or the Consulate in Mumbai is the alternative.

Your passport needs at least six months’ validity beyond your travel dates and a blank page for the stamp, and if Jordan or another country is part of your route, your Travel Concierge will flag what that leg requires.

Vegetarian and Indian Food in Egypt

Indian travellers, and vegetarians in particular, eat well in Egypt with very little effort. Much of the local cuisine is naturally vegetarian: koshary, the national comfort dish of rice, lentils, and pasta; ful and ta’ameya, the Egyptian falafel; and a generous spread of mezze, fresh bread, and grilled vegetables.

Hotels and Nile cruise vessels cater to vegetarian diets as standard, and your guide knows where to find good vegetarian meals near the sites. Cairo and the main tourist centres also have Indian restaurants when you want something familiar, and the spice-forward Egyptian palate tends to suit Indian tastes anyway.

If anyone in your party keeps a strict Jain or other specific diet, tell your Travel Concierge in advance and it will be planned around.

A plate of Egyptian koshary with rice, pasta, lentils, chickpeas, fried onions, and tomato-garlic sauce.
Koshary is Egypt’s favourite street food and entirely vegetarian, sold from dedicated shops on every Cairo corner and topped with crisp fried onions and a spiced tomato sauce.

Indian Embassy in Cairo

The Embassy of India is in Cairo at 5 Aziz Abaza Street, Zamalek, on +20 2 2736 0052, open Sunday to Thursday. For a genuine emergency outside office hours, Indian nationals can reach the embassy’s dedicated emergency line on +20 1211 299905. It is worth saving both before you travel and registering your trip on the embassy’s portal at eoicairo.gov.in, though for anything routine your Egypt Tours Plus team on the ground is the faster first call.

Time Zone

India runs two and a half to three and a half hours ahead of Egypt, the gap depending on Egyptian daylight saving: three and a half hours ahead in the Egyptian winter, two and a half in summer. Since India keeps the same time all year, there is nothing more to track. The difference is small enough that jet lag is barely a factor, and Egypt’s afternoon falls in India’s early evening, so calls home sit naturally in the day.

Travel Insurance for Indian Travellers

Travel insurance is strongly recommended, and worth noting that Egypt expects visitors to carry cover for the duration of their stay. Choose a policy with overseas medical treatment and emergency evacuation alongside the usual cancellation and baggage protection. Indian travellers are well served by familiar names, including Tata AIG, ICICI Lombard, HDFC ERGO, and Bajaj Allianz, all easy to compare online. If your trip includes Red Sea snorkelling or diving, or a desert excursion, check those activities are covered as standard rather than as paid extras.

Credit Cards and Currency

Egypt’s currency is the Egyptian pound (EGP), and cash plays a larger part in daily life than UPI and cards do at home. Visa and Mastercard are accepted at hotels, established restaurants, and by Egypt Tours Plus itself, but tips, bazaars, and small purchases want cash, and US dollars are welcome for larger buys.

ATMs are widespread in Cairo and the tourist centres, and there is no advantage to buying Egyptian pounds in India, since the rate is better on arrival. Around ₹15,000 to ₹30,000 per person, exchanged as you go or spent as dollars, comfortably covers tips and incidentals.

Let your bank know your travel dates so your cards are not blocked, and note that the Indian rupee cannot be exchanged for Egyptian pounds easily, so carry US dollars rather than rupees to convert.

The interior of the Khan El Khalili bazaar in Islamic Cairo, with traditional architecture and colourful market stalls.
In the lanes of Khan El Khalili, cash is king and haggling is expected, so keep small notes handy and treat the first price as an opening offer.

Health and Vaccinations

No vaccinations are required to enter Egypt from India, though it is sensible to be current on routine immunisations, and a travel clinic can advise on hepatitis A or typhoid depending on your plans. Drink bottled or filtered water only, which your hotels and cruise supply as standard, and ease into local food and salads over the first day or two. Pack any regular medication in its original packaging with enough for the whole trip.

Phone and Internet

Jio, Airtel, and Vi all offer international roaming packs that cover Egypt, convenient for a short trip though the cost adds up over a fortnight. Better value comes from an eSIM bought before departure or a local SIM from Vodafone Egypt, Orange, or Etisalat, picked up at the airport in minutes with your passport. Hotels and Nile cruise vessels nearly always include Wi-Fi.

One packing note: Egypt uses the round two-pin Type C and F sockets, so the Indian Type D and M plugs will not fit, and a universal travel adapter solves it. The voltage is similar to India’s, so your chargers need no converter.

An electrical travel adapter showing the round two-pin Type C and Type F plug configurations used in Egypt.
India’s three thick pins will not fit Egypt’s two thin round ones, so a single universal adapter is the one small thing worth packing before you leave.

Your Egypt Tour from India, Designed Around You

Every journey we plan from India starts with what you want, not with a fixed package. A Diwali or winter-break family trip across Cairo and the Nile, a honeymoon on a dahabiya, a fortnight that adds Dubai or Petra on the way, or something nobody has asked us for yet: your dedicated Travel Concierge designs it for your party, on four and five-star footing, at the pace you choose.

Tell us roughly when you can travel and what draws you to Egypt, and your first-draft itinerary arrives within 1 to 12 hours. From there it is a conversation, usually two to four rounds of refinements, sometimes more, with nothing committed and nothing to pay while the plan takes shape. We finalise it only when you are 100% happy.

Egypt Tours Plus has earned the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice award every year from 2020 through 2025, and has been designing private journeys since 1955, for travellers from India and around the world.

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