Hurghada → Eastern Desert

Desert safari & Bedouin dinner

Quad bikes, a camel, and sunset over the Eastern Desert

✓ Private tour — your guide, your car, your pace
✓ Licensed guide, fluent English
✓ Booking is free — you pay cash on the day
✓ Cancel free up to 48 hours before

from €69 / adult

Children from €35 · Final price depends on group size and date

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⏱ 5 hours · 📍 Hurghada → Eastern Desert

Best for: An afternoon when the beach has run out of ideas and you want to see what is behind the hotels.

Hurghada has desert on three sides and most visitors never set foot in it. The Eastern Desert is not dunes-to-the-horizon Sahara — it is dark volcanic hills, gravel plains and wadis, and it turns extraordinary colours in the last hour of light. You ride out with a lead guide rather than alone, stop at a Bedouin camp for tea, and watch the sunset from a ridge with nothing built on it.

The detail

What is and is not included

Included

✓ Hotel pickup and drop-off
✓ Ninety minutes on a quad bike or buggy, with a lead guide
✓ Helmet and safety briefing
✓ Fifteen-minute camel ride
✓ Bedouin camp visit
✓ Tea and local pastries
✓ Sunset stop
✓ Bottled water

Not included

✗ Tipping — around €5 per person
✗ Dinner at the camp (optional, around €15)
✗ Photo package (optional, around €10)

The schedule

How the day runs

Times are indicative. Your guide confirms the exact pickup the evening before, and the order can shift to dodge crowds or heat.

14:30

Hotel pickup

Timed backwards from sunset, so it shifts by an hour or so across the year.

15:30

Arrive at the camp

Briefing, helmets, and a few minutes to get used to the controls.

16:00 – 17:30

Quad or buggy ride

In convoy behind a lead guide. Buggies seat two, so nobody has to ride alone.

17:45

Camel ride

Fifteen minutes, and more photogenic than comfortable.

18:00

Bedouin camp

Sweet tea, basbousa, and usually someone with a simsimiyya who plays it properly.

18:30

Sunset

19:30

Back at your hotel

Before you go

What to bring

▸ Long trousers and closed shoes — non-negotiable on a quad
▸ Sunglasses, as much for the sand as the sun
▸ A scarf or buff for your nose and mouth
▸ A jumper for the evening — the desert loses its heat fast
▸ Sun cream
▸ Small cash for tips or dinner at the camp

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

Do I need a driving licence?

No. Quads go to adults of 18 and over without one. Buggies seat two, so a licensed driver is not required for the passenger seat either.

Can children come?

From 16 they can ride a quad alone, and from 6 as a passenger. Below 6 we would rather you did not — the ride is bumpy and the dust is real.

How dangerous is it?

The convoy moves at a controlled speed behind a lead guide, helmets are compulsory, and the terrain is flat gravel rather than dunes. Nearly every incident here involves someone deciding to break away from the group, which is exactly what the guide is there to prevent.

How cold does it get after sunset?

Between November and March, 10–15°C within half an hour of the sun going. In summer it stays around 25°C and the evening is the best part of the day.

Is there food, or just tea?

Tea, coffee and local pastries are included. A proper Bedouin dinner — grilled meat, rice, salads, bread from the fire — is an optional €15 and worth staying for if you are not in a hurry.

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