The Egypt Study Tour 2027 offers educators a rare opportunity to explore how learning, resilience, and inclusion thrive within diverse educational settings across Egypt. Through a series of carefully curated visits and hands-on experiences, participants will connect with teachers, students, and community leaders who are shaping the future of education in this historically rich nation.

Your professional learning journey includes:

• Centre of Love – Cairo: Young Children to Adults

• Sudanese Displaced Children’s Learning Centre – Cairo: K-10

• School Visit – Aswan: K-12

These visits are designed to inspire reflection, dialogue, and professional growth – deepening your understanding of inclusive education, cultural awareness, and global citizenship while providing practical insights to bring back to your own school community.

For secondary teachers, particularly those teaching Ancient Egypt, History, Geography, Humanities, or Global Studies, this tour offers an invaluable opportunity to enrich curriculum knowledge through firsthand experiences. By connecting classroom learning with authentic cultural and educational contexts, participants will return with fresh perspectives, practical insights, and engaging stories to enhance student learning and engagement.

The Egypt Study Tour offers rich cultural immersion that brings the ancient world vividly to life while revealing the rhythms of modern Egyptian society. Throughout the journey, participants experience Egypt’s history, traditions, and landscapes through guided exploration, local interaction, and unforgettable settings.

Highlights include visits to iconic landmarks such as the Pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian Museum, the Valley of the Kings, and the magnificent temples of Karnak, Luxor, Edfu, and Kom Ombo, where ancient beliefs, leadership, and daily life are explored in context. Participants will also enjoy a day trip to Alexandria, exploring the fascinating Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, the Roman Amphitheatre, and the renowned Bibliotheca Alexandrina, one of the world's most significant centres of learning and culture. A three-night, 5-star Nile cruise from Aswan to Luxor offers a unique perspective on the river that shaped Egypt's civilisation.

Cultural experiences extend beyond monuments, with a Nile dinner cruise featuring traditional music, Belly Dancing, and a Tanoura show, and time spent in local communities. Together, these experiences deepen understanding of Egypt’s enduring connection between history, culture, spirituality, and place, creating powerful learning moments that resonate long after the tour concludes.

The tour begins and ends in Cairo, Egypt.

Please be in Cairo by 4pm on the 12th of January.

Please note this is a brief itinerary and guide only; a more detailed itinerary will be emailed to you closer to departure.

Lots of spontaneous group activities transpire along the way.

Everything is encouraged but nothing is compulsory!

• Arrive in Cairo and transfer to hotel

• Welcome briefing with your group

• Optional dinner and relax after travel

• Visit the Alabaster Mosque at the Citadel

• Engage with Centre of Love community initiative

• Afternoon at the Egyptian Museum in El‑Tahrir Square

• Welcome dinner with fellow educators

• Classroom observation at Sudanese Displaced Children’s Learning Centre

• Explore a vibrant local market

• Evening - Nile dinner cruise with traditional entertainment

• Fly to Aswan

• Visit the High Dam & Temple of Philae

• Sail on a traditional felucca

• First night aboard the MS Nile Premium Cruise

• Morning at leisure or optional tour to Abu Simbel

• Sail to Kom Ombo • explore the twin temple of Sobek & Haeroris

• Evening galabia party onboard

• Visit the impressive Edfu Temple

• Sail toward Luxor

• Explore Karnak & Luxor Temples with expert guide

• Optional hot air balloon over Valley of the Kings

• Visit Valley of the Kings, Temple of Queen Hatshepsut & Colossi of Memnon

• Transfer to Sharm El Sheikh, leisure time at the Maritim Jolie Ville Kings Island Resort

• Morning relaxation by the Red Sea

• Transfer back to Cairo

• Free evening to explore or unwind.

• Full‑day tour to the Pyramids of Giza & Great Sphinx

• Optional camel ride around the plateau

• Visit the Grand Egyptian Museum with world‑class exhibits

• Day trip to Alexandria

• Explore Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa & Roman Amphitheatre

• Visit Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria Library)

• Return to Cairo

• Final breakfast at the hotel

• Transfer to Cairo International Airport for departure

• Farewell to new friends and memories made