2 Days / 1 Night
Daily Tour
6 people
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Two days Cairo tour from Alexandria to visit ancient sightseeing as Memphis city, Step Pyramid in Sakkara, Citadel, old part of Cairo, the Egyptian museum, the Great Pyramids of Giza and Hanging Church. Cairo tour include private guide and private vehicle. Lunch meals will be served during Cairo tour.
Alexandria to Cairo, Great pyramids, Memphis, Sakkara
Our Cairo tour will start with pick up service from your hotel in Alexandria, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then from Alexandria you will be transferred to Cairo by private air-conditioned vehicle with your private Egyptologist guide. First step of your Cairo tour will be 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 city 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 city, best known for the Step Pyramid, the oldest known of Egypt's pyramids, built for King Zoser. Free time for photos and camel ride. Then you will be transferred to hotel to have rest and overnight stay. You can attend light and sound show at Great Giza Pyramids area or enjoy dinner cruise with belly dance show in the Nile River, as optional trip.
Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, Old Cairo, return back to Alexandria
Have breakfast at your hotel and continue the second day of your Cairo tour with your 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. Next sightseeing of your Cairo tour will be Citadel. Originally, Citadel is a fortification and was built on a promontory beneath of Muqattam hills, that make a amaizing view of city. 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 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 you visit Old Cairo and see Coptic Monastery with Hanging Church. This area 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. Free time, and then you return back to Alexandria.
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