Cairo Trip .

 

 

Cairo by day:

  • See one of the most famous and biggest Capitals of the world. You will see Egyptians biggest monument and the last remaining wonder of ancient world, the pyramids of Giza. Moreover you visit the Sphinx, the Egyptian Museum, an institute of papyrus and perfume.
  • English guide, lunch, tickets and transfers included.

Alexandria1 Day Tour From Cairo :

  • Alexandria Day trip from Cairo collects
  • the most important attractions of Alexandria.
  • In one day you will visit, the Roman and Greek Culture of Egypt, in the second biggest city.
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Alexandria1 Day Tour From Cairo itinerary

  • After breakfast you will start on a full day tour of Alexandria starting with Greco Roman Museum which contains artifacts that give you a picture of the grandeu of Alexandria in its Greek and Roman days.
  • You will stop at the newly built Library of Alexandria, one of the modern architectures greatest marvel. View from the outside the Fort and Citadel of Qait Bey,
  • built in the 15th century by sultan Ashraf Qait Bey.
  • You will also visit the Catacombs of Kom El Shuqafa  where the tombs are distinctly Romanesque but the sculpture and relics of the Egyptian gods, and the recently excavated Roman Amphitheatre, we move on to Pompey's Pillar which was erected in honor of The memorial of Diocletian.
  • Return back to Cairo to your Hotel.

Tour includes:

  • Pick-up and transfer from and to your hotel in Cairo .
  • All transportation around the mentioned sites in an air-conditioned 2006 model bus.
  • Professional Egyptologist English speaking tour guide, and variant speaking languages tour Guides areavailable upon your request .
  • All service charges and taxes.

Alexandria & Alamein tour over 2 days & 1 night

  • Alexandria & Alamein Tour has the most Important sites to see in Alexandria, like The Roman Amphitheatre, pompey's pillars, Catacombs, Montazah gardens, & Montaza Palace, Alexandria Library with world war two Memorial El Alamein city,
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Alexandria & Alamein tour over 2 days itinerary

Day 1

  • Start your tour by driving into the Desert Road to Alexandria. This second largest    city in Egypt was built by Alexander the Great.Upon arrival in Alexandria, visit the Catacombs of Kom El Shoafa as an example of the city blend of Greco-Roman and Egyptian styles,
  • Lunch on route. Next, visit the newly open Alexandria Library, the library at Alexandria was the largest and most important library in the world. Then visit the Pompey pillar in Alexandria.
  • View from the outside theFort and Citadel of Qait Bey, Built in the 15th century by sultan Ashraf Qait Bey it now houses a navel museum.
  • Continue to Montazah gardens, where you will have the opportunity to see, from outside only, the Montazah palace originally built in 1892 it was the summer home of the Egyptian Royal family.
  • Later we drive to your selected hotel in Alexandria Overnight at the Hotel.

Day 2

  • After Breakfast we will Drive to World War 2 Memorial at El Alamein (The Battle of El Alamein was primarily fought between two of the outstanding commanders of world War Two, Montgomery, who succeeded the dismissed Auchinleck, and Rommel. The Allied victory at El Alamein) Visit the Commonwealth cemetery and memorial.
  • Drive back to Cairo.

Tour Includes:

  • Night accommodation at 4 stars hotel in Alexandria
  • Days of touring in an air-conditioned, private van with a licensed, English-speaking tour guide.
  • All entrance fees as per the itinerary per the attractions mentioned
  • Service fees and local taxes

Cairo 4 days tour

  • Enjoy Cairo and Giza over a 4 days tour including Pyramids, Sphinx, Sakkara, Memphis, the Magnificent Egyptian Museum, And the old citadel, the hanging Church, Ben Ezra synagogue, the Old shopping street Khan el Khalili And the mysterious city of the Dead.
  • Hotel 4, 5 * Bed & Breakfast

Cairo4 days tour itinerary

Day 1

Arrival at Cairo international airport, our representative will be there to welcome, meet and assist you through immigration and customs formalities then claiming your baggage followed by transfer to your hotel.
Over night at Your Hotel in Cairo.

Day 2

  • After breakfast; we are starting our Day trip in Cairo with a Visit to the famous Three pyramids , lion-headed Sphinx and the valley temple at Giza Plateau. listed Seven Wonders of the World chance for a camel or horse ride in this desert "on your own"
  • we will pass by the papyrus institute At the Papyrus Institute, a  demonstration and an explanation of hieroglyphics is given. And also a chance for some shopping there our tour guide will suggest to you some local restaurants closer to the pyramids area for lunch " Private "  Move to visit the Step Pyramids of Zoser in Sakkara and Open Air Museum in Memphis, the first capital of Egypt, and see the Statue of Ramses II later our tour leader and driver will transfer you to your hotel in Cairo
    Overnight at your hotel in Cairo.

Day 3

  • After breakfast, we are starting our Day trip in Cairo with a Visit to the Egyptian Museum, famous for its antiquities dating back some 50 centuries from Egypt's Pharaonic period, including the fabulous Treasurers of King Tut.
  • Afternoon, we take a tour to Old Cairo and we start it with a visit to the old Coptic suspended Church and the oldest Synagogue of Ben Ezra, later we drive to the Citadel of Saladin, and the Alabaster mosque Of Mohammed Ali, and Ahmed Ben Tulun Mosque also we will visit the City of the Dead, in Cairo city we will visit the oldest shopping bazaars in Cairo Khan-el Khalili one of the world's largest bazaars, pulsing with commerce and crammed with spices, coppersmiths, perfume and trinkets. Then we will take a break at one of the famous tea and local drinks café  and a chance to have a local drink as well as trying the traditional Shisha.
    later our tour leader and driver will transfer you to your hotel in Cairo
    Overnight at your hotel in Cairo.

Day4 

  • Breakfast and free time for leisure in Cairo and before your flight departure almost 3 hours before this time– our tour leader will be waiting for you.
  • you will check out from your hotel and we will transfer you with our Car to Cairo International Airport for your flight to your home With the wonderful memories about Egypt

Visit the Black and White sand from Cairo

Cairo-Alexandria-Siwa-Bahariya-Farafra-Cairo
  6 Days / 5 Nights

 Day 1
Drive from Cairo to Alexandria 230-km, Start your full day tour to Alexandria (Full day Greco-Roman Museum, the Roman Theater & the Catacombs of Kom El-Shoqafa with Lunch):
Greco-Roman Museum (Filled by collection, which covers the period from the 3rd Century BC to the 7th century AD. You will see Mummies, Hellenistic statues, bust of Roman Emperors, Tanagra figurines & early Christian antiquities), followed by a visit to The Roman Theater (A theater with marble seats up to 800 spectators, Galleries, Section of mosaic flooring & a pleasure garden surrounded by Roman Villas & baths), followed by lunch. Then a visit to The Catacomb of Kom El-Shoqafa (Tombs on three levels, also contains the Tri-cilium where relatives used to sit on stone benches to feast the dead, a center with relieves of bearded serpents, Inside are 2nd Century AD statues of Sobec & Anubis wearing Roman Armor). We will then visit The Montazah Garden and Alexandria Library. Check in our hotel, Dinner Overnight in Alexandria.
Day 2
After breakfast, we leave Alexandria behind, we arrive to Alamein 60-km. There we visit the WWII Museum and the war memorial. (Lunch en route) Moving on, we pass by Marsa Matruh. Upon reaching Siwa 300-km, we tour the old Siwan village of Shali, Dinner
Overnight Camping
Day 3
After breakfast we visit Cleopatra’s Spring, Mountain of the Dead, Alexander the Great Temple (Temple of the Oracle), (followed by lunch) and take a donkey- drawn cart for a tour around the city before heading off 17-km to the Great Sand Sea, where we rest at the hot spring of Bir Wahid, We bathe, have dinner and relax while looking at the stars, Overnight camping.
Day 4
After breakfast we head off on a 450-km journey to Bahariya Oasis. We pass by Bahrein, Nawemisa and Sitra Oases. Lunch en route, we pass through magnificent sand dunes of the Great Sand Sea. Upon reaching Bahariya oasis, we check in our hotel, after dinner we go off to bathe in the hot spring under the stars,
Overnight Camping
Day 5
After breakfast, we tour the city; visit the temple of Alexander the great, the tombs of the nobles, the golden mummies and the English mountain. Lunch en route, on reaching the White Desert 160-km, we start exploring the formations, the wind carved sculptors that resemble both human and animal faces. We explore the formations that resemble the surface of a different planet. Dinner
Overnight Camping in Farafra
 Day 6
After breakfast we go to the black desert and the dune area. We start our climb of a 50meter dune. On route to Bahariya we visit the crystal mountain and the area of the wonders with the desert roses and the arch. After lunch we head towards Cairo 370-km

Cairo - Bahareya, Farafra, Dakhla, Kharga - Luxor
5 Days / 4 Nights

Day 1
Departing from Cairo to El Bahariya Oasis (385km) traveling for about four hours, on arrival we will visit the little museum in Bawiti with some fascinating local finds. Then we will enter the marvelous and refreshingly original tomb of Benantui from the 26th dynasty. Next, to the Amasis chapels which are being preserved in an unusually sympathetic style after a visit to the Temple of Alexander drive to visit the English house, the hot springs and watch the sun go down over the salt lake.
Overnight Camping
Day 2 
Breakfast then Driving towards the white desert, on the way we will stop by the Crystal and black Mountains for a visit and lunch. Visit the White Desert & enjoy seeing the beautiful shapes of lime stone.
Overnight in camp in the White Desert
Day 3
Breakfast then we visit the oasis of Farafra, continue driving to reach Dakhla. On the way we will visit the Picturesque village of El Qasr, Deir El Hagar and visit the Roman burial Ground of Mozawaka then drive to the painted rock at the yellow desert to enjoy the camel rock .
Overnight Camping  
Day 4
In the morning we drive to reach Kharga oasis and visit the temple of Hibis, the Christian tombs of Bagawat and then the old town of Kharga have a lunch in a local restaurant at the oasis after lunch drive to visit the nadora fortress area.
Overnight camping
Day 5
Breakfast from Kharga we head to Baris oasis 90-km we visit the temple of Dush, picnic lunch and later on we head to Luxor 300-Km.

El Bahariya Oasis - Black & White Desert - El-Farafra Oasis
4 Days / 3 Nights

Day 1
Departing from Cairo to El Bahariya Oasis (385km) traveling for about four hours, we will visit the little museum in Bawiti with some fascinating local finds. Then we will enter the marvelous and refreshingly original tomb of Benantui from the 26th dynasty. Next, to the Amasis chapels which are being preserved in an unusually sympathetic style, after a visit to the Temple of Alexander drive to visit the Engish house, the hot springs and watch the sun go down over the salt lake.
Over night camping.
Day 2
After breakfast, in the morning Drive towards the incredible white desert, on the way we will stop by the Crystal and black Mountains for visit and lunch. Visit the White Desert & enjoy seeing the beautiful shapes of lime stone.
Over night camping in the  White Desert
Day 3
After Breakfast, in the morning drive to the small oasis of Farafra to visit the art museum the hot spring and the old oasis then have lunch.
Overnight in camp in the Farafra
Day 4
Breakfast, back to Bahariya Oasis traveling back to your hotel in Cairo

Fayoum Oasis
2 Days / 1 Night

Day 1
Pick up from your hotel in Cairo and follow the main highway in the direction of Fayoum Oasis, Later, take the desert track and head west towards Kasr El Sagha, a charming small temple to the side of the Gebel Qatrani range and dating back to the middle kingdom. After lunch we will be continuing south towards the remains of the Ptolemaic city of Dimeh, Es Siba (soknopaiou Nesos), and Karanis, dinner and overnight at your Hotel in Fayoumick.  

Day 2
Morning Breakfast at your Hotel, then off to the lakes and waterfall of Wadi Al-Masryan (The only waterfalls in the middle of the desert) then stopping for lunch and a rest before returning to Cairo, evening drive back to Cairo to your Hotel. End of your trip

Fayoum
Fayoum is renowned by its year-round warm climate, numerous water wheels and lush agricultural land. The local Souk (market) in Fayoum city sells copper ware, spices and gold jewelry and there is special pottery market once a week. Fayoum has been a traditional hunting ground since pharaonic times when crocodilopolis, centre of the cult of Sobek, was the capital of the region.
There are many pharaonic sites. Birdlife still abounds around Lake Qaroun, bordered by semi-nomadic Bedoin settlements and fishing Villages. Here on the edge of the desert you can sail, windsurf, swim and fish and enjoy the waterfalls of Wadi Al Masryan. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
   
     
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