2 Days / 1 Night
Daily Tour
6 people
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Overnight Cairo tour from Makadi Bay by flight to visit Great Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, Sakkara & Memphis city, Egyptian museum and Old Cairo. Lunch will be served during Cairo tour. Private guide and private vehicle in Cairo tour included.
Fly to Cairo, cairo tour, Great pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara
Our Cairo tour will start with pick up service from your hotel in Makadi Bay, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then you will be transferred by private air-conditioned vehicle to Hurghada airport for 1 hour flight to Cairo. There you will be accompanied by private Egyptologist guide and have first step of your Cairo tour to Great Pyramids of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the tombs of pharaohs constructed around 5000 years ago and Great Sphinx - guard of those tombs, with body of lion and human head. Lunch meal will be served during Cairo tour at a good quality local restaurant. Next sightseeing of your Cairo tour is Memphis Necropolis, the oldest capital of Egypt and the legendary city of King Menes, who united Upper and Lower Egypt. There you will visit huge cemetery of ancient Memphis city, which was an active burial ground for more than 3500 years, final resting place for deceased pharaohs and their families, and is Egypt’s largest archaeological site. Also you will visit Sakkara - one section of the great necropolis of Memphis, best known for the Step Pyramid, the oldest known of Egypt's pyramids, built for King Zoser. Free time for photos and camel ride before ending the first day in Cairo tour. Then you will be transferred to your hotel in Cairo to have rest and overnight stay. You can attend during your Cairo tour the light and sound show at great Pyramids area or enjoy dinner cruise with belly dance show in the Nile River, as optional tour.
Cairo tour, Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, Old Cairo, return back to Makadi
Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and continue the second day of your Cairo tour with your private guide to visit the Egyptian Museum with extensive collection of 120000 items of ancient Egyptian antiquities, famous by artifacts of the child king Tutankhamen's tomb, which was found mostly intact. Lunch meal will be served during Cairo tour at a good quality local restaurant in Cairo. Next sightseeing of your Cairo trip will be Citadel. Originally, Cairo Citadel is a fortification and was built on a promontory beneath of Muqattam hills, that make a amaizing view of Cairo. Cairo Citadel is one of the oldest castles in the world for centuries reflected the invasion of the conquerors. For seven centuries the Citadel was the seat of the rulers of Egypt. One of the most striking sightseeing of the Citadel, of course, the Alabaster mosque of Muhammad Ali. Architecture of the mosque - a mixture of many different styles and it's in sharp contrast with the strict structures of Mamluk era. Mosque - square in plan, the length of each side of 41 m. At the western facade of tower two cylindrical minarets in the Ottoman style, each 84 meters in height. In the inner space of the mosque is dominated Turkish Rococo style and interior wins by its dizzying volumes. Afterwards, the last step in Cairo tour will be by visiting the Old Cairo and see Coptic Monastery with Hanging Church. This area in Cairo called "Complex of Three Religions", because there also set the mosque of Amr Ibn Al Asa, erected in the year 642, and Ben Ezra Synagogue, dating from the tenth century. Then you will be driven to Cairo airport to fly back to Hurghada with following transfer to your hotel in Makadi Bay.
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