9-Day Cairo and Siwa Oasis Easter Tour

After having breakfast at the hotel, our tour guide will be waiting at the hotel lobby to take you in a Cairo day tour.You'll start your tour by touring the Giza Pyramids, which will amaze you with their size. These gigantic buildings were constructed during the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt's history by the greatest kings and rulers of ancient Egypt.

Visit the Great Pyramid of Cheops, who was influenced by his father's challenging attempts to create extensive burial tombs, King Snefru who was the founder of the 4th dynasty and the owner of 2 great pyramids in Dahshur, continue to the high plateau to have a spectacular panorama view of the three pyramids including the pyramids of Chephren who was the son of Cheops and the successor of King Djedefre, made his pyramid somewhat smaller than his father's, with a height of 136 meters, and Mycerinus, owner of the third and the shortest among the Pyramids in Giza.

You can enjoy a camel ride on the Giza Pyramids plateau. (Optional Activity)

You will now see the Great Sphinx in Giza, which is a statue of a man with a body of a lion that is believed to have been made for King Chephren himself. Enter the Valley Temple, where the mummification process of the king took place as part of the burial process.

Saqqara tours now are a great way to see the Step Pyramid, the 1st pyramid built by King Djoser entirely out of stone. King Djoser was the second king of the third dynasty, and the pyramid is located in the Saqqara Necropolis, which is considered a significant stage in the evolution of pyramids in Egypt. You will also enter one of the pyramids within the site, the pyramid of King Teti from the sixth dynasty, and visit one of the tombs of the nobles built for the king's son-in-law, the tomb of Kagemni who was the vizier of Justice during king Teti' reign.

Let's continue our tour of Cairo by visiting the ancient city of Memphis. There you'll see the open-air museum with the beautiful alabaster sphinx and the gigantic statue of King Ramses II, who ruled Egypt during the new kingdom era.

You'll enjoy a delicious lunch in a top-notch restaurant overlooking the pyramids and Sphinx before being transferred back to your hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Today and after finishing your delicious local meal our professional tour guide will take you on a tour started with visiting the Grand Egyptian Museum tour to see the biggest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the whole world, after your 2 hours tour is finished, you will transfer to the area known as Coptic Cairo to see the Christian heritage like the Hanging Church of the Holy Virgin Mary that was built upon 2 towers of the ancient Roman fortress of Babylon, the Church if St. Sergius and the Synagogue of Ben Ezra.

Enjoy your lunch in a good quality restaurant before being transferred to the Islamic Cairo trips district at Khan El Khalili to enjoy the best walking tours in Cairo and see the Egyptian local people very closely. After finishing your Cairo City Tour you will be transferred back to the hotel overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After your delicious breakfast at the hotel is served, get prepared to meet your qualified English-speaking Egyptologist to begin your day tour to Alexandria from Cairo through our best Egypt Easter Tours. you will be transferred to Alexandria by an air-conditioned car. The trip is approximately 2.5 hours drive including a stop on the way as a break.

Upon arrival at Alexandria, the city that was built by the Macedonian-origin ruler Alexander the Great in 332 B.C, you will start your tour to the site known as Pompey’s Pillar, then you will be escorted to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, you will drive by the seaside to reach the Citadel of Qaitbay that was built upon the ruins of the ancient Lighthouse Pharos of Alexandria, one of the ancient seven wonders of the world.

Visit also the Bibliotheca of Alexandria. which is a restoration of the earlier library that no longer survives. Ptomoly I constructed the library during the third century B.C. to be the center of science and knowledge in the world.

Enjoy your tasty seafood lunch at one of the best quality restaurants in the city overlooking the harbor before being transferred to your hotel in Alexandria for check-in and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Our tour guide will take you on a long trip that lasts approximately 7 hours to the beautiful Siwa Oasis after finishing your breakfast, we will stop at the Alamein area to experience El Alamein tours starting with the Military Museum and the Commonwealth Alamein Cemetery of World War II to see the army models and know the history of the main battle occurred during WWII in Alamein.

We will now move to the charming city of Marsa Matrouh to have our lunch meal at a delightful restaurant before continuing our tour to Siwa Oasis. Upon arrival, we will leave our baggage in the eco-lodge and transfer to one of the most pleasant natural hot water springs in Egypt to take a bath that will calm our muscles after a long day's drive. Back to the hotel and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Enjoy your Egyptian cuisine breakfast in the Eco-lodge then you will start our Siwa Oasis tours, enjoy visiting the ruins of the Shali Fortress where the ancient Siwan people took refuge during the danger of foreign raids. Then, you will be transferred to visit the Temple of The Oracle at the Aghurmi Village which dates back to the 26th dynasty, visit also the temple dedicated to the worship of God Amun Ra known as the Temple of Um Ubeyda, then get introduced to the valuable Siwan heritage through the visit to the Siwa House Museum and lunch will be served at one of the Oasis beautiful restaurants.

You will enjoy a relaxing afternoon at Cleopatra Spring, one of the most famous hot water springs in Siwa Oasis that is believed to be used by the last pharaoh, Queen Cleopatra, enjoy swimming and dipping into the glittering water after that you will be transferred to Fitnas Island to enjoy the charming Sunset view.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

The fun isn't finished yet today we will continue our tour in Siwa Oasis Desert Safari with our trusted tour guide and an Egyptologist will take you in a 4x4 vehicle to explore the Great Sand Sea.

We will begin our Egypt Desert Safari adventure to visit the Mountain of the Dead and see lots of the tombs of the rulers of the oasis before being transferred to the beautiful sand dunes until we reach the fossils of the Cambrian era to see the aged corals. Then we will take you to one of the incredible sites in the great sand sea a beautiful lake in the heart of the desert, and it may be you will be fortunate enough to see the flamingo birds swimming in the cold water of the lake appreciating the serenity of the desert and bathing in a very relaxing mood.

Passing by the Dakrour Mountain, now we will enjoy sandboarding, the thrill of sliding down the sand dunes instead of snow, after snowboarding, it is time to wash up in the hot spring notable as Bir Wahid for chilling and smoothing our muscles, enjoy another astonishing sunset at the end of the Great Sand Sea Tour in the middle of the dunes while having Bedouin tea.
Overnight in Siwa after being transferred back to the eco-lodge.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

In the early morning, you have your breakfast in a box and go back to Cairo from Siwa Oasis through Marsa Matrouh. and when you arrive in Cairo, you will be moved to the hotel overnight. If you are lucky and we made it back to Cairo earlier than usual, you can book one of the things to do in Cairo by Night like having an optional entertaining Nile cruise dinner in Cairo while attending an entertainment belly dancing and Tanoura dance show aboard a sailing boat on the Nile River.

Meals: Breakfast

Sadly, Today is the final day of your Easter tours in Egypt, we hope you enjoyed our Egypt Day Tours and that the itinerary of your 9 days tour in Egypt during Easter matched your needs. You will be transferred to Cairo International Airport to take your flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast