Cairo at $935 RT

Cue the theme music, and prepare to dramatically squint into the desert sun—you’ve just landed in Cairo, and history isn’t displayed in glass cases, it’s buried right under your boots.

Forget elbowing tourists at the Giza Pyramids, the real treasure lies 45 mins away in Dahshur, where the Bent and Red Pyramids rise from the sand like ancient beings. It’s quiet enough to hear your own footsteps echo down the corridors... or, you know, the faint creak of a long-forgotten curse.

Bring hiking boots, a sense of wonder, and maybe a fake name for when a hawker inevitably tries to sell you yet another scarab :-)