Saqqara Day Tour including Ibn Tulun Mosque and Gayer Anderson Museum

Our tour leader will meet you at Cairo International Airport with a signboard carrying your name. It's time to relax after a long flight you will be transferred to your hotel by an exclusive air-conditioned vehicle. At the hotel, our representative will assist you with a smooth check-in and revise your Pyramids, Ibn Tulun, Saqqara and Gayer Anderson Wheelchair Accessible Tour itinerary with you to verify and approve pick-up times for your Cairo day tours.

Your private tour guide will meet you after breakfast at your Cairo hotel to begin your Day Tours to the famous Giza Plateau, where you will see the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which is the only one of the seven man-made wonders of the ancient world that are still standing, as well as the pyramids of Chephren and Mycerinus, which were built by the ancestors of Cheops and Snefru, the founder of the 4th dynasty, the Great Sphinx and the mummification temple or also known as the Valley Temple facing the imposing statue, our visit to the plateau includes a panoramic view to have a scenery view and take the best photo session during the Giza pyramids tour together and have a camel ride in Giza Pyramids (optional activity).

Let's turn over to Saqqara Necropolis to see the Step pyramid complex and the world's first building made entirely of stone (Djoser Step Pyramid). The tour (does not include) the entrance to the Teti pyramid, which among the accessible pyramids has the most magnificent interior, and the Noble Tombs at Saqqara, which were constructed for the husbands of two of King Teti's daughters, to give visitors an understanding of daily life in ancient Egypt, with all of its activities depicted in writing and paintings on the walls and corridors of those 4,000-year-old tombs.

The Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque, one of the earliest Islamic structures in Egypt built in 879, will be our next stop. It is regarded as one of the hanging mosques and was constructed on a rocky peak called "Shukr" on Mokattam Mountain. It features Egypt's first spiral minaret.

But if you're curious, What did Ibn Tulun's mosque serve? It provided refuge for pilgrims heading from North Africa to the Hijaz in the 12th century. The grand congregational mosque served as the focal point of Al-Qata'i, the capital of Ibn Tulun and the seat of the Tulunid dynasty. When you visit this mosque, you'll see that it's a unique example of a mosque that survived the classical Islamic era.

finally, at the end of this Tour, you will visit Gayer Anderson an English officer who completed his medical studies in London and was appointed to the medical department of the English army in 1904, then he moved to the service of the English army in Egypt in 1907.

The museum was made up of two Ottoman-era houses from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that had been combined into one house. He exhibits his archaeological collection of artifacts from the Pharaonic, Islamic, and Asian eras in them, provided that the Egyptian people inherit the furniture and the artifacts after his passing or when he departs Egypt permanently.

finally, we will take you to your hotel in Cairo or Giza.