It’s here! The UnchartedX Egypt tour for 2026 is available and ready for bookings. This is going to be a good one! 16 days, hitting the best of upper and lower Egypt, many special permission private accesses to sites normally closed to the public (more than anyone else) – an epic journey diving in the mysteries of Ancient Egypt.
Check out all the details, the full itinerary and booking form on the tour page here, or just click the link in the top menu.
We have also organized a cracker of an option extension after the tour – into the Fayoum and Western Desert. The ‘More Pyramids’ extension includes the mighty stone pyramids of Dashur (the Red and Bent), Meidum, we’ll visit the incredible underground artifacts of Lahun, then go into the Western Desert to visit rarely seen megalithic sites, quarries, and even the amazing and unique ‘Valley of the Whales.’
If you can’t make March, or if you’re looking for a more affordable option, I will be joining Yousef on his annual Primordial Egypt Tour in December of 2025. What’s the difference? The UnchartedX tour is longer than the Primordial, has more special permissions, and is consequently more $. I’ve been attending the Primordial tour since 2021 and it’s always a great time, with a great group of people.
Check out the testimonials from past tours and more info on my testimonials page if you want to know what touring with us is like!
In 2024, and after discussions spanning several years, I arranged for my father Ron and his wife Sherry to join me on my annual UnchartedX Egypt tour.
This was a pretty special occasion for both of us as we don’t get to see each other very often. My father and his wife live in far North Queensland Australia, and in my early 20s, in 2004, I left the country for what has turned out to be ‘for good,’ at least so far. 2 years in Singapore, and then the next nearly 20 years I’ve been living in California, almost exactly on the other side of the world from the Eastern coast of Australia.
I’m happy to report that Dad and Sherry both immensely enjoyed the trip, as seems to be the case for most who join us in Egypt. My father, who’s published a couple of books at this point, has written a review of the trip that you can find below, and I’m grateful to him for the effort.
I and my ‘venture partners’ (as Dad calls them) do work very hard to put on the best experience we can for our guests. I’m very proud to say that many of those who choose to join us on these tours, whether they’re in Egypt, Turkey, the US, or later this year in Peru and Bolivia, are return guests.
I started running these annual trips in 2020 (yep, the height of covid), primarily as a research tool, building them around the ‘special permission’ accesses to sites that are closed to tourism, that I can’t afford to pay for myself, as a way to do on-site independent research and investigation. Also because a lot of people were asking me to do it, as my YouTube channel began to grow in popularity.
These days, I still do them for the research and filming opportunities, we still visit sites each year that are new to me, but also because I very much enjoy them – every time we’ve run an Egypt tour, it’s always been a great group of people. Let’s face it, you have to be a little bit down the rabbit hole to come on my tours. Searching google for ‘Egypt tour,’ will not get you to this website, there’s endless options out there for the ‘regular tourist experience.’ I think of it as a ‘self-selecting group of interested and open minded people.’ One of the things I enjoy seeing the most is our guests making connections and friends – and time has shown that many of these friendships last for years. Our 2020 telegram group is still going, and I know that people on these tours have subsequently flown around the world to visit each other!
I’m confident we put on what is probably the best tour for the money – we certainly do many more ‘special permissions’ than anyone else, and between Yousef, myself, Kyle and Russ, as well as special guests who join us like Mohamed Jabra (probably the top guy in Egypt for reading hieroglyphs) and our Egyptologist tour guides, we show a side of Ancient Egypt and the depth of its mysteries that you just won’t get anywhere else.
