Main Info
The must see sights
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Included |
Meet and greet at the airport |
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Excluded |
• Meals not mentioned |
| Rates and Dates | |
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Hotels |
4-star: Cairo Pyramids – Steigenberger 5-star: Fairmont Nile City Hotel, Cairo |
Itinerary
Upon arrival in Cairo, our representative in Egypt will meet you at the airport and you will be transferred to your hotel for overnight.
| Overnight in Cairo
After breakfast, your private Egyptologist tour guide and driver will pick you up and start your tour. Drive to Giza and visit the Pyramids. See the Great Pyramid, a royal burial chamber and the Sphinx. Continue to Memphis, capital of the pharaohs during the Old Kingdom. Visit the recumbent statue of Ramses II and the 80-ton alabaster sphinx. Lunch in route. Continue to Sakkara to see the prototype of the Pyramids, the Step Pyramid, built for the 3rd Dynasty Pharaoh, Djoser by the exalted architect Imhotep. Return to Cairo and visit a Papyrus Institute on your way back to the hotel.
| Overnight in Cairo
| Breakfast, Lunch
After breakfast, visit the Egyptian Museum, this houses a magnificent collection of Pharaonic antiquities, especially the golden treasures of Tut Ankh Amun. In the afternoon you will proceed to Old Cairo to visit the citadel of Salah El-Din, and the Mohammed Ali Mosque situated high above the city, Continue to visit the Church of Abu Serga, Moallaqa Church (Hanging Church) and Ben Ezra Synagogue, the oldest Jewish synagogue in Egypt. Then have lunch in route. For those who wish to browse and shop, your tour will stop at the Khan El Khalili Bazaar displaying and selling all types of oriental goods, drive back to your hotel.
| Overnight in Cairo
| Breakfast, Lunch
Enjoy the final breakfast of your trip. At the appropriate time, your guide will transfer you to the
airport for your departure flight.
| Breakfast
