Your tour guide will meet you today after you finish your open-buffet breakfast at the hotel and accompany you on your day trip from Cairo to the Giza Pyramids, Dahshur, and Memphis.
Your Cairo day tours should begin with a visit to the Giza Pyramids, where you will be astounded by their size. These enormous structures were built during the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt history by the most powerful kings and rulers as evidence of the success they attained 4500 years ago thanks to the Nile River.
See the Great Pyramid of King Cheops. King Cheops (Khufu in ancient Egyptian) built his pyramid using more than 2.3 million limestone blocks to serve as his eternal home from which he would ascend to heaven. The structure stood at a height of 146 meters with 230 meters long for each side. King Cheops was influenced by his father's attempts to build enormous burial tombs.
passing by the high plateau to admire the three magnificent pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus. Chephren, the son of Cheops, built his 136-meter-tall pyramid while leaving some of the outer casing in place as a small tribute to his paternal figure.
Visit the Great Sphinx of Giza, a statue of a lion with a human head that is believed to have been created by King Chephren himself because it is located within his pyramid complex, and go inside the Valley Temple, where the king was mummified as part of the burial ritual.
Travel to Memphis, an ancient city that is now known as Mit Rahina, to continue your sightseeing in Cairo. You can visit the open-air museum here, which is home to the second-largest alabaster sphinx and a sizable statue of King Ramses II, who served as the new kingdom's most powerful tyrant.
Transfer to the Dahshur Archaeological Site to see the Red and Bent Pyramids, two of the four pyramids built for King Snefru, the 4th dynasty's founder and King Cheops' father. One of the most unusual pyramids in Egypt is the Bent Pyramid, which still has a significant amount of the outer casing material. The reddish color of the limestone blocks used to build The Red Pyramid helped to identify it, and it is regarded as the first perfectly shaped pyramid in Egyptian history.
You will have a gourmet lunch in a good-quality restaurant overlooking the pyramids of Giza before being transferred back to your hotel.