Cairo and Memphis tour two days from Alexandria
Pick up place: Any Alexandria hotel
Pick up place: Any Alexandria hotelSightseeings: Giza Pyramids, Valley Temple, Sphinx, Egyptian museum, Sakkara, Memphis, Salah El Din Citadel, Alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali, Old Cairo, Hangung Church
Duration: 2 Days - 1 Night
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: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 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 in Cairo. 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 your hotel in Cairo 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 tour.
Day 2: Egyptian Museum, Citadel, Alabaster Mosque, Old Cairo, return back to Alexandria
Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo and continue the second day of your tour in Cairo 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 in Cairo. Next sightseeing of your tour in Cairo will be Citadel. Originally, Cairo Citadel is a fortification and was built on a promontory beneath of Muqattam hills, that make amazing 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 Cairo 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 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. Free time in Cairo, and then you return back to Alexandria.
Tour Includes:
-Pick up services from your hotel in Alexandria
-All transfer by air-conditioned vehicle
-Entrance fees to the sightseeing in Cairo as per itinerary
-Lunch during Cairo tour at a high quality restaurant in Cairo
-Egyptologist English speaking tour Guide in Cairo
-Hotel accommodation for 1 night in Cairo at five stars hotel
-Drop off services from your hotel in Alexandria
Tour Excludes:
- Personal expenses
- Optional tours
Cairo and Memphis tour two days from Alexandria
Payment plan:
- 25% down payment required to secure the booking and can be done online by Credit card, Visaand Masteror bank transfer
- 75% balance will required in pick up from your hotel in the tour day and can be paid by credit cards or cash
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Cairo and Memphis tour two days from Alexandria
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