Cairo Hostel
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
11 days, planned by Farthest Field Co.
Two countries in eleven days, joined by a short flight from Aswan or Cairo to Amman.
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| Nile corniche |
| Zamalek |
Djoser's step pyramid at Saqqara predates Giza by about a century and is where the idea started.
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| Great Pyramid |
| Sphinx |
| Step Pyramid |
The sleeper saves a hotel night and a domestic flight and the berths are decent.
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| Grand Egyptian Museum |
| Nile valley |
Karnak's hypostyle hall has a hundred and thirty-four columns and took two thousand years to finish.
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| Valley of the Kings |
| Hatshepsut |
| Karnak |
| Luxor Temple |
Edfu is the best-preserved temple in Egypt because it spent centuries buried in sand.
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| Edfu |
| Kom Ombo |
| Esna lock |
| Nile |
Abu Simbel was cut apart and moved sixty-five metres uphill in the 1960s to save it from Lake Nasser.
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| Abu Simbel |
| Ramesses II |
| Amman |
Jerash is among the best-preserved Roman provincial cities anywhere, and the Dead Sea is dropping about a metre a year.
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| Jerash |
| Oval Plaza |
| Dead Sea |
The Siq is a 1.2 km crack in the rock and the Treasury appears at the end of it without warning. That is the entire design.
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| The Siq |
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| Royal Tombs |
| Street of Facades |
The Monastery is larger than the Treasury and most day visitors never climb the eight hundred steps to it.
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| Ad-Deir |
| Wadi Rum |
| Bedouin camp |
Five hours north, or an hour to Aqaba if you would rather fly out from there.
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| Wadi Rum |
| Desert Highway |
The citadel has Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad layers on one hill in the middle of the city.
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| Amman Citadel |
| Roman Theatre |
Day 1 · Fri, 18 Sept, 2026
Most of these can be added to your booking later — the operator confirms within a day.
Published by the operator. Nights on the ground can move with weather and permissions.
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
Hostel, homestay or tent, shared
10 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 5 dinners across 11 days, at camp. It opens with dinner on day 1 and closes with breakfast on day 11.
16 meal services named in the itinerary. Vegetarian and vegan covered; Jain, gluten-free and allergies on notice at booking
“Long-haul group trips for people with two weeks and no plan”
Well paced over 11 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Dorms were tidy and the common areas were where the group actually gelled. Plenty to eat and they were happy to work around a gluten allergy. Would book with them again.
Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Would send friends their way.
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Nile and Petra done well. The itinerary had room to breathe. The cooking was a genuine surprise — better than most places we'd have picked ourselves. Would send friends their way.
Well paced over 11 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Never went hungry, and the tea appeared exactly when it was needed. Solid operator.
Thank you for travelling with us — glad the route worked out.
Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Recommended.
Thank you. We've taken the point about the transfer and are reviewing it.
Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Dorms were tidy and the common areas were where the group actually gelled. Whoever planned the days knew what they were doing.
Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Nothing fancy about the beds, and nothing wrong with them either. The lead was calm and knew when to slow the group down. Would book with them again.
Nile and Petra done well. The itinerary had room to breathe.
The Taba land crossing into Israel and on to Jordan is possible but slow and adds a third country's formalities. A flight via Cairo takes four hours door to door and is what almost every operator uses.
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