You are welcome in Egypt.
Once your flight arrives, the Cairo Top Tours tour leader will be waiting for you inside your terminal at Cairo International Airport with a signboard showing your name. He will escort you by a private air-conditioned elegant vehicle to your hotel in Giza. When you reach the hotel you will settle in your room after our representative assists you with a smooth check-in make sure to revise the itinerary of our Egypt Classic Tours from Cairo to Alexandria holiday for all pick-up times.
Overnight in Cairo.
Welcome Drinks will be served.
Enjoy a delicious breakfast in the early morning at your hotel in Cairo. Afterwards, our certified tour guide will meet you to start your Giza Pyramids tour, and we will take you to visit the following historical sites:
The Great Pyramid of Khufu in the Giza Necropolis:
The Great Pyramid was built during the Old Kingdom 4,500 years ago. During our classic tours in Egypt, you will have some free time to enter if you wish or to take some photos of the massive structure while your tour guide tells you the story of the pyramids.
The Second Pyramid of King Khafre:
Khafre was the second son of Khufu, and he built his pyramid in Giza slightly smaller than his father’s out of respect. In addition to the famous Sphinx, which is the largest of the sphinxes in Egypt.
The Third Pyramid of King Mycerinus:
Finally, you will have the opportunity to see the smallest royal pyramid in Giza built for King Mycerinus of the Fourth Dynasty from the top of the high plateau, where you will have the opportunity to enjoy a camel ride in the Giza Pyramids (optional activity) to take amazing photos.
The Great Sphinx of Giza:
Which served as a guardian for the entire necropolis, it was carved from a single stone measuring 73 meters in length in the shape of a lion with the head of a man, intelligent like a man, and strong like a lion.
The Valley Temple:
One of the oldest temples in Egypt and located directly in front of the Sphinx, the temple was originally built to perform the ritual known as the opening of the mouth of King Khafre, so that his mummy could eat, drink and speak properly in the afterlife.
The City of Memphis:
You will drive for about 35 minutes to visit the open-air museum in the ancient city of Memphis to explore the treasures and artifacts that remained from the oldest capital of the Egyptian Empire since the reign of King Menes 5000 years ago after the unification of the two countries.
Saqqara:
Moving to the Saqqara Necropolis, one of the richest and oldest archaeological sites in the world, home to 11 royal pyramids and many mastaba tombs for senior officials, aristocrats and nobles as well as relatives of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. You will see the Step Pyramid, the oldest pyramid built by the famous architect Imhotep for King Djoser and considered the first stone building in the world.
The tour includes entering the Pyramid of Teti, which is inscribed on the inside with hieroglyphs and cartouches of kings. Cartouches are oval or rectangular containing a set of Egyptian hieroglyphs (symbols), which usually represent the name and title of a king. We will also take you to visit one of the tombs of the nobles built in the form of a mastaba tomb and decorated with colorful scenes from daily life in ancient Egypt.
Now you can rest and enjoy your lunch in one of the local restaurants in Saqqara village, then we move to Memphis, the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom and a very important city during the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom until the Greco-Roman era in the history of ancient Egypt.
After finishing your exciting tours in Giza, we will take you back to spend the night at your hotel in Giza.
Included Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Have breakfast at the hotel and get ready to continue your classic tours in Egypt. Today your licensed tour guide will take you to visit the Egyptian Museum, which is considered one of the most famous museums in the world due to the large amount of Egyptian artifacts displayed on two floors, the most interesting of which is displayed separately, the royal treasure of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Proceed to the Citadel of Saladin, which was the center of Egyptian government for centuries. Upon arrival, you will visit the Mosque of Muhammad Ali al-Marmari, which is considered a unique reflection of Ottoman architecture in Egypt and you will enjoy the tours of Islamic Cairo with its mosques and many towers that pierce the sky and its wonderful colored domes, which are hundreds of years old and some are older than a thousand years.
Our Coptic tour in Cairo will take you to see the Roman fortress of Babylon and the Hanging Church of the Virgin Mary, known as the Hanging Church or the Hanging Church because it was built on top of the towers of the Citadel.
During our daily tours in Cairo, you will also visit the Church of the Holy Family or the Church of St. Sergius, built over the tomb where the Holy Family stayed for three months and the spring from which they obtained their water supply, then we will go to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, built according to tradition on the spot where the basket of the baby Moses was found.
We will stop for a delicious lunch and then continue our tours in Islamic Cairo to the Khan el-Khalili market in the heart of medieval Islamic Cairo, exploring the walls and gates of medieval Cairo and the old streets dating back to the 10th century.
Our representative will take you to your hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch
After breakfast, get ready to meet your expert English-speaking Egyptologist guide to start your day tour to Alexandria from Cairo on our Classic Tours of Egypt. We will transfer you from Cairo to Alexandria in air-conditioned vehicles. The journey takes approximately 2.5 hours and you will stop along the way for rest.
Finally, you will arrive in Alexandria, the shining pearl of the Mediterranean and the second capital of Egypt, the city is named after its founder, the Macedonian general Alexander the Great, who ruled Egypt in 332 BC.
Start your tour at the famous site known as Pompey’s Pillar, which was built in 297 BC to celebrate the victory of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (who ruled Rome between 284 and 305 BC and also took over Egypt) after a revolution in Alexandria. You will then be taken to the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, which were discovered just at the beginning of the 20th century and are considered one of the largest Roman burial sites. Afterwards, you will drive along the seafront to reach the Qaitbay Citadel, which was built on the ruins of the ancient Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria. Enjoy a prime location, at the end of a narrow strip of land extending to the eastern harbor.
Visit the oldest scientific research center in history, the Library of Alexandria. Once the largest in the world. Located in the city that gave it its name, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, it was founded in the early 3rd century B.C. by Ptolemy I.
You can’t go to Alexandria without seafood! Enjoy a lunch prepared with the finest ingredients.
Finally, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo.
Included meals: Breakfast and lunch
Enjoy your tasty last breakfast during your Egypt Travel Packages. after that, you will check out and Cairo’s top tours tour guide will pick up you and you will be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.
Meals: Breakfast
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