5 Days Cairo and Alexandria Xmas Tour

Get ready for your big day today as you will get very close to the Egyptian marvel, the great pyramid of Giza during your Giza Pyramids tour.

Have your tasty buffet breakfast served at the hotel before meeting up with your accredited Egyptologist to start the first of your Cairo trips, today we will see the old kingdom necropolis in Saqqara and Giza Plateau, also we will see the place where the 1st capital of Egypt used to be, roughly 5000 years ago.

Start with your tour to Giza Pyramids to see the huge structures that were built by the great pharaohs of Egypt during the 4th dynasty, Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus. The three pyramids are believed to be built according to a group of stars with the main entrance locates to the north to serve as burial tombs for the semi-god kings. The biggest one belongs to King Cheops and your tour guide will get into details about why and how the great pyramids were built.

Proceed to the high spot to enjoy camel riding in Giza Pyramids (optional) and your Bedouin guide will capture impressive tricky photos for you.

Now we will see the Great Sphinx, the man-headed lion figure which is 73 meters tall and we will also enter the Valley Temple which is another interesting part of the funerary complex of King Chephren.

Your driver will take you to Saqqara Necropolis, about 45 minutes far from Cairo to see the oldest stone pyramid in Egypt, the Step Pyramid which was built by the famous architect Imhotep for his king, Djoser of the 3rd dynasty. The pyramid is a transitional phase in the development of the royal burial tombs.

We have the possibility to enter the Pyramid of Teti who ruled the country during the 6th dynasty and the tomb of his son in law, Kagemni tomb which is one of the most impressive tombs of the nobles for having a rich amount of offering and hunting acenes inscribed on its walls and still very well-preserved until now.

Have your delightful lunch meal in one of the good quality restaurants and transfer to Memphis, now known as Mit Rahina to see the open-air museum with its amazing artifacts, especially the alabaster sphinx of Memphis and the colossal statue of Ramses II, the new kingdom pharaoh who is the owner of the impressive Abu Simbel Temples in Aswan.

Transfer back to your hotel and overnight

Meals, Breakfast, Lunch

After enjoying breakfast at the hotel, you will meet your professional Egyptologist tour guide to begin your full-day excursion from Cairo to Alexandria. You will travel along the Alexandria Desert Road for approximately three hours, with a relaxing coffee break to refresh.

You will feel the beauty of Alexandria the moment you arrive, in the city known as the Brides of the Mediterranean and that served as the capital of Egypt for almost a thousand years. It evolved into a renowned center of learning, philosophy, and commerce, where notable personalities such as Cleopatra, Euclid, and Hypatia resided.

The popular first thing to see will be the Pillar of Pompey, a column of red granite approximately 27 meters in height. It is not associated with the Roman general, Pompey; rather, it had been constructed to honor Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century A.D. The column is located in the ruins of the Serapeum of Alexandria, a great temple that was devoted to a Greco-Egyptian god known as Serapis.

Then you will go to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. This spectacular sub-ground necropolis boasts of three levels that are excavated in the rock. There is a curious mixture of Pharaonic, Greek, and Roman artifacts indoors: statues with ancient Egyptian crowns but Roman features, mythological wall reliefs, etc.

It will then move on to the Citadel of Qaitbay, which is a medieval fort that was constructed in the 15th century by Ashraf Qaitbay of the Sultan. It was built with the help of the stones of the ancient Pharos Lighthouse, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the World in the past. The citadel is majestically located on the Mediterranean coastline, which has scenic views and powerful sea breezes.

on the way, you will see the impressive modern Library Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a cultural center, which was opened in 2002 in memory of the ancient Great Library of Alexandria. Its round shape is a sun-disk, and the huge size of books becomes its symbolic image of the historical role of Alexandria as a center of knowledge.

Then it is time to have a nice seafood lunch in one of the restaurants that are situated on top of the Mediterranean Sea and here you will relax and enjoy the seaside atmosphere before coming back to Cairo.

You will also take our car after lunch and go back to Cairo to spend the night in your hotel.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

After your breakfast at the hotel is done, you will meet your guide to start your Cairo day tours with the Grand Egyptian Museum tour. The Grand Egyptian Museum is the premier destination to see the treasures of the golden king Tutankhamun, displayed in their entirety to the public for the first time.

Continue your excursions in Cairo to visit the Citadel of Saladin, a Medieval Cairo fortification built by the Muslim Sultan Saladin Al Ayyubi. You will be amazed by the size of its towers before entering the alabaster mosque of Mohamed Ali inside, the citadel was built during the 12th century to be the center of ruling the country for about 700 years while the mosque of Mohamed Ali was built in 1805 and completed in after his death by his son and successor to continue the same dynasty in ruling Egypt till the Egyptian revolution in 1952.

Finally, after having your tasty lunch, you will be transferred to the oldest market in Cairo for an amazing shopping experience in the Khan El Khalili bazaar.

You will be transferred to the hotel and overnight in Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Now you will make your last flight on to the airport of Cairo after enjoying an exciting 5 Days Cairo and Alexandria Xmas Tour.

Meals: Breakfast