After an enjoyable breakfast in the Cairo hotel, you will meet your personal guide who will accompany you to the pyramids of Giza 4500 years old. Start your sightseeing at the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which has taken more than 20 years to be built, then proceed to the pyramids of the kings Chephren and Mykerinus who belong to the same dynasty. You will then go to see The famous Sphinx, the man-headed lion guardian of the Necropolis. And finally, in Giza you will be taken to the Valley Temple of king Chephren dedicated to the mummification of the Pharaoh which is made out of Aswan granite and is paved with alabaster.
proceed to enjoy the Egyptian Museum, exhibiting the largest and the most precious collection of Egyptian antiquities all over the world and the only royal treasure that was found intact the treasures of the golden pharaoh Tutankhamen whose tomb in the valley of the kings was uncovered in 1922 by the famous English archeologist Howard Carter.
Continue to Coptic Cairo to visit the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon and the Hanging Church suspended above its ancient towers and the church of St Sergius and Bachus which is also known as the Cavern church or the holy family church and it is built above the crypt where the holy family stayed nearly three months and the well from which the holy family got their water supplies, the tour extends to we visit Ben Ezra Synagogue said to be the site where the basket of Moses was picked up from the Nile by the Pharaohs daughter.
Continue driving to Islamic Cairo, exploring the walls and gates of the medieval city founded by the Fatimids and its old streets date back to the 10th century the walk end by having tea at Fishawy the oldest cafe in Khan El Khalili, Cairo’s old bazaar.
--Optional tour to the sound and light show in Giza--
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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