Egypt, 10–14 November 2026
Volvo Buses · Annual Stakeholder Meeting 2026
Where heritage meets innovation
Welcome to Egypt. Over five days you will meet as partners, walk among the oldest great works of engineering on Earth, and see where buses on Volvo chassis are built today. This guide holds your programme, the story behind each place and everything practical for the week.
Explore your journeyEgypt has been solving engineering problems for 4,500 years. This week, you will stand in front of the answers.
Between the two lies the same idea: build with precision, build to last, and move people safely. Each stop on this journey has a story about how that was done.
VOLVO BUSES / Digital artifacts
Discover two more extraordinary forms inspired by ancient Egypt. Models open and rotate automatically when they enter your screen. On phones, only one 3D scene is active at a time.
Tutankhamun mask – Hunyuan by Roberto Domínguez · CC BY 4.0. Hosted on Sketchfab.
Object study · Egyptian-inspired design
Explore the sculptural details of the “Scarb Egypt” 3D model from every side as it rotates automatically.
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3D model “Scarb Egypt” by marmoarts. Hosted on Sketchfab.
Museum collection · Ancient Egypt
Encounter the intricately painted coffin of Peftjaoeneith, an Egyptian object from the collection of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, shown in interactive 3D.
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3D model “Mummiekist van Peftjaoeneith” by The National Museum of Antiquities. Hosted on Sketchfab.
Five days based at Giza Palace Hotel in Sheikh Zayed. Open a day for the full schedule, the places you will see and what to bring.
A short introduction to each place on the programme, so that you arrive already knowing what you are looking at.
Your hotel sits west of the pyramids. The museum and the plateau are about half an hour away; historic Cairo and the Nile lie to the east. Select a stop to read about it.
The essentials for a comfortable week in Cairo in November.
From the moment you step off the aircraft until your departure, our team is on the ground with you. You will find the Kadmar registration desk at the hotel on arrival day, and you can reach us directly at any time. The duty line stays open until the last guest has left Egypt.
Every number takes both calls and WhatsApp messages.
Thank you for travelling with us. We hope you leave with new partnerships, a few good stories and the memory of standing before the pyramids. Egypt will be glad to see you again.
The Kadmar Travel team
You will be met airside at Cairo International Airport, guided through visa, immigration and baggage formalities, and driven by private executive car to Giza Palace Hotel in Sheikh Zayed. The evening is unhurried, with a welcome dinner outdoors at Beit El Ezz.
The day runs on two programmes. Importer partners meet at the hotel, where the business session with Volvo begins at 08:30. Customers leave at 09:00 for historic Cairo: the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, brunch in Al-Azhar Park with the Citadel in view, and the afternoon at the Citadel itself. In the evening everyone comes together for the gala dinner on the Nile.
The morning opens at the Grand Egyptian Museum: the Grand Staircase, the galleries and the Tutankhamun collection. From there we move to the Giza Plateau for the panorama point and the Great Pyramid, a group photograph, lunch at Khufu's facing the pyramids, then the Sphinx and the Valley Temple. You are back at the hotel by 15:30 to rest and change before the GB Auto launch at the Pyramids.
Buses take you to the manufacturing facility at Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea coast and bring you back to Cairo, leaving Ain Sokhna at 15:30. In the evening, both groups go to dinner at Sachi Park Street, ten minutes from the hotel.
Breakfast and check-out at the hotel, followed by your transfer to Cairo International Airport.
The last surviving wonder of the ancient world stands on a limestone plateau where Cairo meets the desert. Three pyramids, raised for the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure some 4,500 years ago, with the Great Sphinx keeping watch below them.
Precision at scale. The builders levelled the base of the Great Pyramid, an area of some five hectares, to within about two centimetres. Any engineer who has worked to a tolerance will recognise the discipline behind that number.
Opened in November 2025 within sight of the pyramids, the Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest museum in the world devoted to a single civilisation. Its galleries follow ancient Egypt across some thirty dynasties.
Moving people, 4,600 years ago. Khufu's boat was discovered dismantled into about 1,200 pieces and took specialists more than a decade to reassemble. It is one of the oldest and largest wooden vessels to survive from antiquity, and one of the earliest pieces of transport engineering you can stand beside.
Lunch is served on the Giza Plateau itself, with the pyramids filling the view from the table. Under executive chef Mostafa Seif, the kitchen gives the cooking of the Nile Valley a contemporary reading.
In Fustat, the site of Egypt's first Islamic capital, this museum tells the whole story of Egyptian civilisation in one building, from prehistory to the present day. Most visitors come for one hall above all.
A transport challenge unlike any other. For the Golden Parade, each mummy travelled in a nitrogen-filled capsule aboard a purpose-built vehicle with special shock absorption, so that a three-thousand-year-old passenger would not feel the road.
Brunch is at Granita, on a green hilltop in the middle of historic Cairo. A generation ago this was a mound of rubble.
Hidden infrastructure. Three large freshwater reservoirs serving the city are concealed beneath the park's hills: a piece of modern civil engineering disguised as a garden.
For nearly seven hundred years Egypt was governed from this fortress on a spur of the Muqattam hills. Its terrace gives one of the finest views over Cairo, and on a clear day the pyramids can be seen on the horizon.
Engineering for a siege. To keep the fortress supplied with water, Salah El-Din's engineers cut Yusuf's Well through solid rock to a depth of more than 85 metres, with a spiral ramp wide enough for the oxen that turned its waterwheels.
Both groups come together for the gala dinner at Zoé Restaurant, aboard the First Nile Boat. The evening has a White & Blue theme, with live music, the Cleopatra Gift & Oil Bar and a Volvo photobooth.
Data before the word existed. For centuries the Nilometer reading set the year's taxes: a high flood meant a good harvest. It is an early example of measuring a system in order to manage it.
Giza Palace Hotel & Spa stands on the 26th of July Corridor in Sheikh Zayed, west of the pyramids. It is your home for the week, the venue for the importer partners' business session and the setting for the welcome dinner at Beit El Ezz.
Ain Sokhna is Cairo's nearest stretch of Red Sea coast, on the western shore of the Gulf of Suez. You are here as guests of GB Auto, for a visit to the manufacturing facility where buses are built on Volvo chassis.
An industrial coast, then and now. The shoreline that once launched state expeditions for raw materials is today part of one of Egypt's main industrial and port corridors, and the place where buses on Volvo chassis are built.
The final evening is spent at Sachi Park Street in Sheikh Zayed, ten minutes from the hotel. A section of the restaurant is reserved for the group, with a sharing menu and music through the evening.