subject: Cairo Sightseeing Tour Two Days From Hurghada [print this page] Pick up place: Any Hurghada hotel
Sightseeings: 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: Hurghada Fly to Cairo, Great Pyramids of Giza, Memphis city, Sakkara
Our Cairo tour will start with pick up service from your hotel in Hurghada, where our REP will meet you with aboard reflecting your name, then you will be transferred by air-conditioned vehicle to Hurghada airport for 1 hour flight to Cairo. In Cairo you will be accompanied by private Egyptologist tour 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 tour at a good quality local restaurant in Cairo. Next sightseeing of your Cairo tour is Necropolis in Memphis city, 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, which was an active burial ground for more than 3500 years, final resting place for deceased pharaohs and their families, and is Egypt 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 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 in Cairo light and sound show at great 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, fly to Hurghada
Have breakfast at your hotel in Cairo 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 artefacts of the child king Tutankhamen's tomb, which was found mostly intact. Lunch meal will be served during sightseeing tour in Cairo at a good quality local restaurant in Cairo. Next sightseeing of your tour in Cairo will be Citadel. Originally, it is a fortification and was built on a promontory beneath of Muqattam hills, that make a amaizing view of Cairo. This is one of the oldest castles in the world for centuries reflected the invasion of the conquerors in Cairo. 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. In the end of your Cairo tour you visit Old Cairo and see Coptic Monastery with Hanging Church. The 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. Then you will be driven to Cairo airport to fly back to Hurghada with following transfer to your hotel in Hurghada.
Tour Includes:
-Pick up services from your hotel in Hurghada
-Lunch meal during tour at restaurant in Cairo
-Airfare Hurghada - Cairo with Egypt Air
-Entrance fees to the sightseeing in Cairo as per itinerary
-Egyptologist English speaking tour Guide in Cairo
-All transfers by air-conditioned vehicle in Hurghada, Cairo
