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Egypt, planned properly.

Expert-crafted trip plans for independent travellers — written by someone who grew up in Egypt and spent years inside airline reservations and quality assurance, so the flights, the transfers and the timing actually work.

Tell me where you want to go Read a 3-day Cairo sample

How it works

You tell me your dates and what you care about
Arrival and departure flights, how many nights, who's travelling, and what you actually want out of the trip — the archaeology, the food, the coast, or a slow week with two good days of sightseeing in it.
You get a day-by-day plan, in writing
Each day lists where you go and roughly when, how you get between places, what to book before you fly, and where to eat near each site. Transfers, timings and booking notes are spelled out — nothing is left as "figure it out locally".
You travel independently, without losing days
No coach, no group, no fixed schedule you didn't choose. You keep the freedom of doing your own trip and skip the hours that usually go missing: the ticket-window queue, the drive that takes twice as long as it looked on the map.

Sample itinerary

Three days in Cairo

An excerpt from the Cairo section of a full Egypt plan. This is the shape of a working day — where you go, roughly when, and the one logistics point that decides whether it goes well. Timings are adjusted to your dates, the season and where you're staying.

Day 1 — Giza plateau and the Grand Egyptian Museum

07:45 · At the Giza plateau gate before it opens. Walk the plateau while it's still quiet — the coach groups arrive between about 09:30 and 11:00.
08:00–10:30 · Great Pyramid, Khafre's pyramid, and the panorama viewpoint for the three-pyramid photograph.
10:30–11:30 · The Sphinx and the Valley Temple, then leave the plateau on the desert side rather than back through the coach park.
12:00 · Lunch in Giza's residential streets, off the plateau: koshary or grilled meat at prices that aren't paying for a view of a pyramid.
14:00–18:00 · Grand Egyptian Museum, on the road back toward the city. Three to four hours; the Tutankhamun galleries alone are worth two.

Logistics tip. The museum ticket is the bottleneck, not the museum. Book it online the day before and keep the booking on your phone — an hour at the ticket window is the single most common way Cairo visitors lose the first afternoon.

Day 2 — Islamic Cairo, Al-Moezz Street and Khan el-Khalili

08:00 · The Citadel of Saladin and the Muhammad Ali Mosque. This is the most open, least shaded stop in the city — take it first, while it's cool.
10:30 · Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifai mosques, a short drive down the hill at the foot of the Citadel. Two of the largest mosque interiors in Cairo, five minutes apart.
12:30 · Lunch around Al-Hussein, then walk Al-Moezz Street: Bab Zuweila at one end, Al-Hussein at the other, with the Qalawun complex and Beit El-Suhaymi on the way.
15:30 · Khan el-Khalili. Walk the gold and spice alleys while the light is good, then sit down at El Fishawy with a mint tea and let the afternoon go.

Logistics tip. Group this day so you're indoors in the middle of it. The Citadel and the mosques are stone, shade and cool floors; Al-Moezz Street is open sky. Do the buildings in the morning and the street after 15:00, and don't try to drive into Al-Moezz — most of it is pedestrian, so you're dropped at one end and walk.

Day 3 — Saqqara, Dahshur and Memphis, felucca at sunset

07:00 · Leave the hotel. Saqqara is roughly 30 km south of Giza; an 08:00 departure puts you in the ring-road commute and costs you an hour.
08:15 · Saqqara: the Step Pyramid of Djoser and its enclosure, the Imhotep Museum, and one painted mastaba — ask for Ti or Mereruka and take whichever is open, both are worth the small extra ticket.
11:00 · Dahshur, twenty minutes further south: the Bent Pyramid from the outside, and the Red Pyramid, which you can go inside.
13:00 · Memphis open-air museum on the way back — a 30–45 minute stop, mostly for the colossal statue of Ramses II.
16:30 · Back in Cairo for a felucca on the Nile at sunset: one hour, arranged through your hotel or agreed at the dock before you step on board.

Logistics tip. Saqqara, Dahshur and Memphis don't connect by public transport. This day needs a car and driver booked for the full day — not a half day — with the route and the total price agreed before you leave Cairo, and remember the three sites sell separate tickets.

A full plan also covers where to stay for your dates, the airport transfer, and the two or three things worth reserving before you fly.

What a package tour never shows you — and most guides get wrong

Coach tours move at coach speed. Cairo doesn't.

The plateau, the museum and the bazaar each want half a day. A coach day fits all three in by cutting the parts you came for and adding a gift-shop stop. The drives between them — the part nobody writes down — are what decide whether a day works.

Most itineraries online are lists of places, not hours.

"Day 2: Islamic Cairo" is not a plan. A plan says the Citadel is a morning stop and Al-Moezz Street is an afternoon one, because one is shade and stone and the other is open sky.

Nobody writes down the boring details that decide the day.

How far the gate is from where the car can actually stop. Which ticket you buy online and which you buy at the window. Which restaurant near the site is worth the stop. That's where a good trip and an exhausting one separate.

Who writes these

I'm Egyptian. I grew up in Egypt and I live in Milan now, where I'm studying. Before that I spent years working inside airline reservations and quality assurance — an odd training for writing itineraries, and an excellent one for this: I know how a trip fails. A connection that looked fine on paper. A transfer that quietly assumes an hour of empty road. A ticket window that isn't where the internet says it is.

That's the whole idea behind Roam Alone: not a list of famous places, but a plan built by someone who knows the ground and has spent years watching the details go wrong for other people.

Is this a tour?

No. You travel independently — you book your own flights and hotels, and you keep your own schedule. What you get from me is the plan: the order, the timings, the transfers and the booking notes.

Which destinations do you cover today?

Egypt, in depth — I grew up there, and Egypt is all I write. Cairo and Giza come first; then Alexandria, the North Coast, the Red Sea and Siwa, and the rest of the country's sites. The form below is how I find out which one people want next.

How much does it cost?

Nothing is for sale yet, and this form doesn't commit you to anything. Registering interest is free; pricing comes after I've seen who actually wants which trip.

Tell me where you want to go

Egypt is what I'm building, and only Egypt. Cairo and Giza come first; then Alexandria, the North Coast, the Red Sea and Siwa. Leave your details and where you'd want to go, and I'll use the answers to decide what to write next.