The pyramids, a desert oasis, the tombs at Luxor and the Red Sea. Every place we ate, stayed and loved, on one map.
Most Egypt guides are a list of temples. This is the whole route, laid out so you can actually use it while you are standing in the heat working out what is next.
Day by day across all five stops, where we stayed, every restaurant and cafe, what things cost and what we would do differently.
45 spots pinned and colour coded, each with our notes and a photo. Filter to one town, or just the food.
Pick your places and your days. It builds the plan around the drives and the domestic flight, and tells you honestly if it will not fit.
Drag it about, cross things out, add whatever is nearby. Every travel time updates as you go.
Egypt is not a city, it is a country, and the transfers are the part that catches everyone out. Tell it which places you want and how long you have, and it lays out the days with every drive and the Cairo to Luxor flight in the plan as its own block, eating real time, the way they actually do.
Tell it which of the five places you want and whether you have a week or twelve days, and your days appear, already grouped by town and by bank of the Nile, in the order we would do them ourselves. The flight and the long drives sit in the plan as their own blocks, eating real time, and every leg on the ground tells you how long it takes to get to the next place and whether you want a driver.
Nothing in there is fixed. Cross out the temple you do not fancy in forty degrees, drag a stop up or down by the little grip, or send it into a different day in the same town if you would rather have a lie in. The dashed plus sits right on the gap between two stops, so if you want something in the middle of your afternoon you just tap the middle of your afternoon.
Every travel time recalculates the moment you change something, and so does the total for the day, which means the plan on your screen is always the plan you are actually doing.
Tap that plus and it only offers you things in the town you are actually in, closest first, with the real travel time from the stop above it. It will never put a Dahab dinner in the middle of a Luxor afternoon. Filter it down to food, or drink, or somewhere for after dark, and every single option is still a place from our own fifteen days rather than whatever is paying to be top of a list.
One tap on share and the whole plan lands in Messages, WhatsApp or your Notes, your edits and the travel days and all, with a map link on every stop. No app to download, no account to make, nothing for your friends to sign up for.
Those grey dots are the rest of them. The full map has all 45, each with our notes, a photo and a link to book it.
I've been travelling full time for the last 18 months, and every guide I make is a trip I actually took. Nothing in here is researched from a desk: if I name a restaurant, I sat in it, and if I say a drive takes nine hours, we did those nine hours. This is everything I'd tell you over a coffee before you went.
51 countries and counting.
Ellen xStraight away. You land on your own page with the guide, the interactive map and the map file, and the same link is emailed to you so you always have it.
Not at all, and the builder is designed around that. Pick two, pick five, tell it how many days you have, and it works out what actually fits once the drives and the flight are in there.
Email us within 30 days and we refund you, no questions asked, and you keep the guide. Full details on our refund page.
No. The blog covers what Egypt cost us and how many days to give Luxor. The guide is the actual trip: the exact stays, the exact tables we sat at, the timed transfers, the map and the itinerary builder.
No account needed. It opens in your browser like any web page, on your phone or laptop.
We update it as things change and you get every update free, forever. Ticket prices and opening hours at the ancient sites do move, so we always tell you to confirm at the ticket office too.
We already did it, drives and all. Get the guide, the map and the itinerary builder for less than a taxi to the pyramids.
