Budget Tour to Giza Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum

You will meet your private Egyptologist guide at the agreed time and location within Cairo or Giza to start your awesome Egypt Cheap Budget Tour of the Giza Pyramids and the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Accompanied by your guide and driver, aboard a private vehicle, you will be transferred to the site of the Giza Necropolis at Al-Ahram Street in Giza, entering the site, you will be amazed by the size of the pyramids, especially the great pyramid of King Cheops, your tour guide will give you a brief introduction about how the pyramids were built, the importance of these huge structures for ancient Egyptians and the relation between the pyramids and the ancient Egyptian religion throughout the history of Egypt.

We will move to the high plateau to have an epic view of the whole necropolis with a great chance to ride camels around the Giza Pyramids. Moving down, we will stop by the 2nd pyramid of King Chephren and his son Mycerinus. You will see the difference in the size and the outer casing.

Then, we will visit the Valley Temple of Cheop's son, King Khafra, who is believed to be the owner of the Great Sphinx as well. The temple was used as a place for the mummification process, which took place as part of the funerary rituals before the burial of the royal body.

You will take photos with the sphinx while your tour guide tells you about the story of sphinxes in ancient Egypt and their significance.

After that, we will start the tour to the Grand Egyptian Museum. We will enter the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is composed of two floors housing the most important artifacts that date back to the pre-dynastic period, passing by the different eras of ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, and the New Kingdom, as well as the Greco-Roman era. you will see a glance of each period in terms of the most significant pieces, from statues for the kings and the gods of ancient Egypt to sized sarcophagi and the historic palettes like the Narmer Palette, the Palermo Stone, and the Rosetta Stone, which records great evidence of the ancient Egyptian civilization, in addition to giving us the first steps in understanding the ancient Egyptian language when the first civilized men discover writing in ancient Egypt.

After that, you will be transferred back to your hotel at the end of your Cairo excursions.