Budget Cairo Short Tour

You will start the day by meeting the tour guide in the hotel after breakfast to take you to one of the best visits, where you will start your day by visiting the Saqqara area and seeing one of the best achievements there, such as the step pyramid and the funerary temple 

The Saqqara area was a civilization in the era of the pharaohs, as it was and is still one of the most important tourist and archaeological areas, and its name was derived from an ancient Pharaonic god called Seker. there is a small village near the area that bears the same name.

The oldest monuments date back to the first dynasty, according to the research of some scholars such as Kopel, Firth and Emre, who recognized the large mastabas where he discovered that they resembled the facades of palaces, so he said that they were tombs for senior officials, as he discovered inside the tombs seals made of pottery, but there was no truth that these tombs were for senior officials. 

The first four terraces were attributed to the first dynasty, including King Mina Narmer, who built the city of Mina as the capital of the country, and the meaning of its name in the ancient Egyptian language was the white wall, and this city left us a great legacy for tourists from all over the world.

After that, you will visit the city of Memphis, which was known in the past as Manfar, due to the royal palace there, and after a long time they called it Nefer until the Greeks came and made its name Memphis until the Arabs entered Egypt and called it Minf, and one of the most famous attractions there is the Mutawah Museum, which is located in the village of Mit Rahina, and this museum includes many antiquities, ranging in size and shapes between small pieces and very large pieces, namely: A very large statue of King Ramses II standing at the entrance of the museum, a second statue of the same king with a large size lying on the ground, and a small sphinx made of alabaster.

After that, you will go to the most important visit, which is a visit to the Giza Pyramids area, as the Great Pyramid is not only the greatest of what the pharaohs presented of this kind, but it is also characterized by high precision in its engineering, which made it an interest from the earliest ages, and then the pyramids were stolen, especially in the first transition period, and this was the reason that the historian Diodorus of Sicily This is the reason why the historian Diodorus of Sicily said that the Egyptians hated the construction of the pyramids, which made them steal their tombs, and the importance of the pyramids remained neglected until the 26th Dynasty, which tried to take care of reviving ancient customs and traditions, the most important of which was the interest of the priests of that family in caring for the pyramid of King Khufu and his temple. 

After having your delicious meal in one of the best restaurants, you will return to the hotel to rest before the next day in Cairo.

You will start your second day after you meet the guide at the hotel, and after eating a wonderful breakfast, you will visit some wonderful places in Cairo, where you will start your visits with the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, which contains many wonderful and impressive pharaonic relics for all the tourists who visit the museum from different parts of the world.

In the museum there are many wonderful statues and relics of the different pharaonic dynasties, such as a schist statue of King Thutmose III, and his head is very similar to the form found in the Karnak Temple, and there is also a limestone cabin with a cow's head in the centre, symbolizing the Egyptian goddess Hathor.

There are statues of other kings, such as Akhenaten, who fought with the priests of Amun, which made him change his name from Akhen Amun to Akhenaten, as it is currently said, and the statue depicts him in the museum carrying a child, and statues of other people, such as the Egyptian writer Sun Mut, Queen Hatshepsut's deputy, and other wonderful statues inside the museum.

Then you will visit Coptic Cairo, which has many important archaeological churches that are always frequented by tourists, where in this visit you will see the Hanging Church, which was named so because it looks like it is in the sky, and before building these churches, this was one of the ancient fortresses, but then the church was built on some of these forts to serve as a hideout for Christians in the early centuries of Roman persecution, and there is also the church of St. Sergius and many other ancient churches.

Finally, you will go to Khan El Khalili, which is considered one of the largest markets in Cairo and contains many wonderful local products that show Egyptian heritage and culture, especially Islamic culture. 

And then you will have lunch in one of the wonderful restaurants before returning to the hotel.

On the 4th day of your Budget Cairo Short Break Tour, you will have your breakfast at a hotel in Cairo, and you will meet our representative, who will take you to Cairo International Airport to board your plane and travel back home.