You will have your delightful breakfast at the hotel and meet your Egyptologist to start your Cairo day tours, first, you will enjoy an amazing tour to Giza Pyramids to see the oldest monuments in the world, the Giza Necropolis is considered one of the most sacred places during the time of ancient Egypt history, you will see the great pyramid of King Cheops who is called Khufu in the ancient Hieroglyphs. Your tour guide will take you on a trip back in time to discuss everything about the ancient Egyptian religion and how it affected ancient Egyptians that almost all the incredible monuments built were for the sake of the gods of ancient Egypt.
Move by your private vehicle to the high plateau to see the two pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus, you can also enjoy an optional camel riding tour in Giza to experience the feeling of the Sahara and its beauty.
Enter the Valley Temple of Chephren, the successor of King Cheops whose pyramid complex is the only complete among all the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Sphinx also within the complex was carved for the same king in a mythological figure of a man-headed lion, that signification ancient Egyptians used to symbolize that the king has both the authority and wisdom.
Continue the Coptic and Islamic Cairo tours by visiting the Citadel of Saladin, the Medieval fortification of Cairo built by the famous Sultan Saladin in the 12th century, get astonished by the huge towers, and visit one of the most beautiful mosques inside the citadel, the alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali Basha who was brought by the Ottoman Caliphate to get rid of the French expedition in Egypt by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Now its time for the informative Coptic Cairo tour, you will go to the famous location of Old Cairo to visit the Hanging Church that was constructed upon 2 towers of the Roman Fortress of Babylon, the church is a Coptic Orthodox church consisting of the main nave and two side aisles with the original pulpit in the middle. Continue exploring the area to visit the Synagogue of Ben Ezra which is considered of the most ancient Jewish temples in Egypt, and the Church of St. Sergius, known also as the cavern church that holds inside it the crypt where the baby Jesus Christ used to sit y his virgin mother Mary during their stay for 3 months in the area, as they were escaping from King Herod towards Egypt and stopped by many spots within the country in the early times of Christianity in Egypt.
You will be transferred back to your hotel in Cairo overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
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