Our Services

Our core offering is a personalised guide pack: a structured PDF document compiled from our site research database and tailored to your specific interests, travel dates and group composition. Each guide pack covers every site on your planned itinerary with a standardised format that includes historical context, visitor logistics, photography notes, mobility assessments and suggested time allocations.

A standard seven-day Cairo and Luxor itinerary guide pack runs to approximately 60–80 pages of edited content drawn from our existing site database and supplemented with current logistics data confirmed within 30 days of your visit. We deliver the pack as an indexed PDF optimised for offline mobile use — useful when roaming data is unavailable inside monuments. Optional print formatting is available at no extra charge.

Premium guide packs for multi-week or specialist itineraries — for example a dedicated Ptolemaic temple circuit from Edfu to Dendera, or an off-the-beaten-track Western Desert oases route — involve additional original research and are priced accordingly. All packs include unlimited follow-up questions via email until the day of your outbound travel.

If you are new to Egypt or are attempting an unusually complex itinerary — combining Upper Egypt, the Sinai, the Red Sea coast and the Delta in a single trip, for example — our itinerary planning service provides structured day-by-day route advice from a researcher who knows the logistics of Egyptian travel in practice, not just on paper.

The planning process begins with a 60-minute video consultation (or written brief if preferred) in which we capture your priorities, physical requirements, budget range and preferred pace of travel. We then build a day-by-day schedule that sequences sites logically, avoids the most common scheduling mistakes (such as attempting both Karnak and the Valley of the Kings in a single day during summer), and incorporates realistic travel times between locations using current transport conditions.

We provide three alternative schedule options — a comfortable pace, a moderate pace and an intensive pace — with clear notes on what is gained or lost at each level of compression. Families travelling with children receive a dedicated variant optimised for shorter attention spans, shaded rest stops and facilities availability. The final schedule is delivered as an editable spreadsheet alongside the site guide pack.

Researchers, journalists, documentary teams and specialist tour operators sometimes need deeper coverage of a single monument than our public guides provide. Our specialist dossier service produces expanded site reports drawing on our photo archives, field notes, measurements, conservation reports from the Supreme Council of Antiquities and relevant academic literature.

A standard specialist dossier for a major monument such as the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak or the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings runs to 20–40 pages of structured content covering site history, architectural phases, iconographic programmes, current visitor access conditions, recent conservation interventions and a photographic appendix. Dossiers for less prominent sites — a specific Theban tomb number, a provincial temple or a Coptic monastery — vary in length depending on available literature and access conditions.

All specialist dossiers include a bibliography and can be formatted for academic citation. Turnaround depends on the complexity of the research required; we provide a firm delivery estimate at the time of enquiry after reviewing the brief. Rush delivery (within five business days) is possible for sites already well represented in our existing research archive.

Tour operators, booking platforms and travel agencies whose Egypt content is outdated or incomplete can license our verified site database under a white-label arrangement. Our data feed covers entry fees, opening hours, accessibility ratings, current tour restrictions, photography policies and suggested visit durations for more than 320 sites across Egypt, updated on a rolling six-month verification cycle with triggered updates for major changes.

The feed is available in CSV, JSON and XML formats and can be integrated into booking systems, mobile apps or website content management systems. Each record includes a quality score and a last-verified date so your team and your customers can understand the confidence level attached to each data point. Our editorial team handles all fact-checking; you integrate the output.

White-label content licences — where our written site descriptions are delivered without Nile Horizon branding and are publishable under your own editorial identity — are available on an annual subscription basis. All licensed content is subject to the same accuracy standards and update schedule as our public-facing guides. Pricing is based on the number of site records required and the output format; contact us for a custom quotation.

Travelling with children under 12, teenagers or elderly relatives introduces planning complexities that standard travel guides rarely address honestly. Heat management, walking distances, interior conditions (dark, uneven floors, low oxygen in sealed tombs), toilet facilities and queue management all require specific intelligence. Our family planning service addresses these factors directly.

We maintain a dedicated children's engagement index for major sites — a rating of how visually compelling and intellectually accessible each monument is for visitors aged 7–14 — and we provide age-appropriate explanatory prompts that parents and grandparents can use on-site without prior Egyptological knowledge. This service is particularly valued by multigenerational travellers who want elderly relatives to engage with the history rather than simply endure the walk.

The family planning package includes the full itinerary planning service with additional children's engagement ratings, heat and rest stop schedules, accessible-route notes for wheelchair or mobility aid users, and age-specific engagement scripts for the ten most popular sites. Paediatric health guidance for travel in Egypt (vaccinations, sun safety, water quality) is included with signposting to current NHS, CDC and WHO recommendations.

Designed for educational groups, university field trips and specialist tour departures, our pre-departure briefing service delivers a 90-minute video presentation — or live webinar — covering the historical context, practical logistics and cultural etiquette relevant to the group's specific itinerary. Briefings are led by a Nile Horizon Egyptologist and tailored to the knowledge level of the audience, from secondary school to postgraduate.

Educational group briefings include a slide deck for use by accompanying teachers, a reading list appropriate to the age group and a curated list of short documentary clips that can be screened in advance to build contextual knowledge. University and postgraduate briefings are structured as academic lectures and include a Q&A session with the presenting researcher.

All briefings are recorded and provided to the group as an MP4 file for reference during the trip. Travel coordinators receive a separate logistics briefing document covering transport, accommodation, site entry and health and safety matters. Briefings can be arranged from two weeks before departure; we recommend six weeks for educational groups requiring customised slide preparation.

Egypt's monuments present specific challenges for photographers: restricted zones, permit requirements, reflective surfaces in tombs, harsh midday light at open sites and equipment screening at entry points. Our photography briefing service is designed for serious amateur and professional photographers who want to use their time on site efficiently rather than discovering restrictions after arrival.

A photography briefing document covers permit requirements and application procedures for each site on your list (some require advance application to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; others charge a camera supplement at the gate; a small number prohibit photography entirely in certain chambers), the optimal time of day for natural light at each site's principal subjects, and known workarounds for common logistical obstacles such as tour group congestion at the Valley of the Kings or scaffold obstructions at actively conserved monuments.

We also provide a site-by-site guide to which subjects are most photogenic and contextually interesting for editorial, documentary or fine-art purposes, drawing on our own field archive of more than 40,000 images taken across 320 sites. Photographers covering the lesser-known archaeological sites of the Delta or the Western Desert will find this briefing particularly valuable given how little current practical information is available in published sources. Delivery is by PDF within three business days of enquiry; permit applications at sites requiring them should be initiated at least four weeks before visit.

Nile cruises between Luxor and Aswan typically include guided visits to six to eight major sites — Karnak, Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae and the High Dam — but the guided experience at these sites is often rushed, superficially explained and scheduled at the worst possible time of day for heat management. Many cruisers feel they have seen Egypt's monuments without understanding what they were looking at.

Our Nile cruise briefing service prepares passengers for each site before the ship docks. We produce a concise, accessible pre-reading document for each site on your cruise itinerary — three to five pages per site, written for an engaged non-specialist — covering the historical significance of what you are about to see, the specific elements most worth attention, and how to navigate the site independently if you choose to leave the guided group. We also note which areas are least crowded early in the site visit and where the tour groups tend to cluster, so you can make informed choices about where to spend your limited time.

Cruise briefings complement our standard Nile cruise selection guide, which covers operator comparison and cabin grading, and can be combined with a full itinerary planning service if you are still deciding which cruise to book. Couples, honeymooners and solo travellers who book independent cabin berths rather than package tours find this service particularly useful for making self-directed decisions at each stop. Contact us with your confirmed cruise dates and vessel name for a tailored quotation.