Viajes baratos a El Cairo y Sharm El Sheikh en 6 días

Your tour guide will meet you today after you finish your open-buffet breakfast at the hotel and accompany you on your day trip from Cairo to the Giza Pyramids, Dahshur, and Memphis.

Your Cairo day tours should begin with a visit to the Giza Pyramids, where you will be astounded by their size. These enormous structures were built during the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt history by the most powerful kings and rulers as evidence of the success they attained 4500 years ago thanks to the Nile River.

See the Great Pyramid of King Cheops. King Cheops (Khufu in ancient Egyptian) built his pyramid using more than 2.3 million limestone blocks to serve as his eternal home from which he would ascend to heaven. The structure stood at a height of 146 meters 230 meters long for each side. King Cheops was influenced by his father's attempts to build enormous burial tombs.

passing by the high plateau to see the three pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus in all their beauty. Son of Cheops, Chephren constructed his 136-meter-tall pyramid with some of the outer casing still present as a small tribute to his father.

Visit the Great Sphinx in Giza, a statue of a lion with a human head that is believed to have been created by King Chephren himself because it is located within his pyramid complex, and go inside the Valley Temple, where the king was mummified as part of the burial ritual.

Continue your sightseeing in Cairo by traveling to Memphis, an ancient city that is now known as Mit Rahina. Here, you can visit the open-air museum that features the second-largest sphinx made of alabaster and the enormous statue of King Ramses II, who was the most powerful ruler during the new kingdom.

Transfer to the Dahshur Archaeological Site to see the Red and Bent Pyramids, two of the four pyramids built for King Snefru, the 4th dynasty's founder and King Cheops' father. One of the most unusual pyramids in Egypt is the Bent Pyramid, which still has a significant amount of the outer casing material. The reddish color of the limestone blocks used to build the Red Pyramid helped to identify it, and it is regarded as the first perfectly shaped pyramid in Egyptian history.

After breakfast, take a flight from Cairo to Hurghada. At Hurghada Airport, you'll be met by a representative of ours who will drive you to the hotel and assist you with the check-in process. You can spend the rest of the day relaxing by the pool and watching the evening show, or you can choose to go on an optional Hurghada Bedouin Safari by Jeep at dusk or one of our other Hurghada excursions.

You will have a fun boat tour today to the Mahmya Islands from Hurghada. The tour begins when your guide drops you off at the location where you will board the boat and sail with designated stops for the best snorkeling and swimming experiences at one of the best naturally protected areas with a wide variety of fish and coral reefs. After you've finished your boat ride to Mahmya Island for snorkeling, take a transfer back to the hotel.

After enjoying a delicious buffet breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport to board your flight to Cairo. Upon arrival, you will meet your guide and transfer to the city's historic center for an educational Coptic Cairo tour. You will see the Hanging Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, which was constructed above the ruins of Babylon's Roman fortress, the Church of St. Sergius, also known as the cavern church, which houses the well where the holy family drank their water and other sites.

Enjoy your lunch at a reputable establishment. After that, we'll continue our Cairo day tours with an Egyptian Museum tour, where we'll see the oldest artifacts in Cairo's Egyptian Museum, which first opened to the public in 1902 and is home to the largest collection of antiquities.

Finally, you will be taken to Cairo's oldest market, Khan El Khalili Bazaar, for an unforgettable shopping experience.

You'll be driven to the hotel for check-in and your Cairo overnight stay.

After enjoying your delicious final breakfast in Egypt, you will be taken to the Cairo airport for your final departure. You can reserve our Saqqara from Cairo day trip if you have enough time left over from your 6 Days Cairo and Hurghada Tour Package before your flight. to see the first stone pyramid ever built, which was constructed about 200 years before the great Cheops pyramid in Giza.