In the early morning, you will enjoy a fresh and delicious breakfast to get ready for an exciting adventure today with the Cairo Top Tours team. You will meet one of the most professional tour guides in Egypt, who will take you on an enjoyable historical tour to the most important archaeological site in the world, the Giza Pyramids.
This adventure will start with a visit to the amazing Giza Pyramids, which are widely famous not only for being a construction and engineering miracle but also for being an astronomical miracle because the pyramids are aligned with a large group of stars called the Orion constellation. The top of each pyramid faces a binary star in the sky. Your private tour guide will explain all the details of the construction of the pyramids and that they were built using many scientific theories, such as the system of ramps to facilitate the transportation of rocks and not using slaves.
You will also visit the Sphinx, which is one of the oldest and largest sculptures in the world. The Sphinx was given several names, including "Hor-Em-Akhet," as it was greatly revered in the era of the Pharaohs as the solar god, and its common name is "Sphinx," in reference to the Sphinx, the huge mythical Greek monster that consists of the head of a human, falcon or sheep and the body of a lion with the wings of an eagle.
You should not visit the pyramids without visiting the Valley Temple of King Khafre, which is a temple that the ancient Egyptians built on the banks of the Nile near the pyramids and is connected to them by a road called the "Procession Road". After the death of any pharaoh, his body was mummified, and his mummy was prepared for burial in the Valley Temple; then it was transferred in a grand and massive procession to a temple directly next to the pyramid, called the Great Funerary Temple. After performing religious rituals on the deceased, he was brought into the coffin chamber and placed in the coffin.
You will then have the opportunity to visit the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, which is one of the most important archaeological museums in Egypt and the world, as it contains more than 150 thousand artifacts representing the greatest archaeological collection in the world that expresses all stages of ancient Egyptian history. The Egyptian Museum building consists of two main floors. The lower ground floor contains heavy artifacts such as coffins, paintings, and huge statues made of limestone and sandstone, such as the statues of Ramses II, Senusret, Khafre, Akhenaten, and Hatshepsut. The upper floor contains rare artifacts from the New Kingdom era, the most famous of which is the collection of the golden pharaoh "Tutankhamun.".
You will enjoy your first lunch in Egypt to taste the most delicious famous Egyptian dishes. Then we will visit the Christian area of Cairo to visit a collection of the most important churches in the world. We will start by visiting the Hanging Church, which was built between the fourth and fifth centuries AD. It is the first seat of the patriarchs in Cairo, where the great papal throne was transferred from Alexandria in the tenth and eleventh centuries AD. It is one of the most famous and oldest Coptic monuments in Egypt. It was called the Hanging Church because it was built on two towers of the ancient towers of the Roman fort known as Babylon.
You will see the Church of Abu Serga, where the Holy Family took refuge during their escape to Egypt. Under this church is a small cave with three wings with small columns. You will also explore the Ben Ezra Synagogue, which is one of the oldest Jewish synagogues in Egypt. Likely, it was originally a Coptic Orthodox church that was sold to a member of the Jewish community in Egypt in 882 AD. It was named after Abraham Ben Ezra, the famous Jewish religious scholar and philosopher.
If you have time left, you can buy some souvenirs and beautiful and unique handicrafts from the famous Khan El Khalili market. Afterward, we will return you to your hotel for some rest.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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