If you're moving fast, you can continue on to Aswan after Luxor, or try to get a bus to Hurghada and a Ferry to Sharm ash Shaykh and Dhahab. Either one of those options would probably stretch you so thin that you'd never get to see anything.

If it were me, and I only had 9 days, I'd spend a few days in Cairo checking out the Pyramids and Egypt Museum, then go big on the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. That's all the Egypt you'll need your first time there. Come back later when you have a month to spare!

written by  Jason Kester on July 10, 2007