9 Days Cairo Alexandria and Siwa Oasis Group tour

Afterward, our representative will welcome you in the hotel lobby to help you organize your day trips to Cairo. Enjoy an excellent breakfast at the hotel. Your trip will begin with an exciting visit to the Pyramids of Giza. These are some of the oldest and most recognizable buildings in the world. They were built by Egyptian pharaohs as personal and family tombs some 4,500 years ago. You will also see a mythological animal with a human head and lion body known as the Sphinx. It has protected these royal tombs for centuries.

Continue the tour and visit the Saqqara Necropolis to see other pyramids from later periods. During the Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BC), this necropolis was built as a burial place for aristocrats. The site includes mastaba tombs, which are rectangular buildings with flat roofs and sloping sides built at this time, as well as tombs carved into rocky cliffs.

Finally, we will travel to the city of Memphis, which served as the capital of ancient Egypt throughout the New Kingdom period (1550-1069 BC). Here, guided tours of many sites, including temples, palaces, and tombs, will give you an insight into life in ancient Egypt.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

This day-long excursion combines two of the most popular attractions in Cairo: the Egyptian Museum and Coptic Cairo. The tour begins with a visit to the massive Egyptian Museum, the largest in Africa, which houses more than 120,000 antiquities of Ancient Egypt. On your visit, you will see immense treasures that belong to five thousand years ago, including sculptures, mummies, and magnificent gold and silver objects.

Early on you will be driven to Coptic Cairo where there are many churches, monasteries, and other remnants of early Christianity in Egypt. You will see the Ben Ezra Synagogue and other historic sites including a visit to the Church of St. Sergius near the Citadel which houses a rare collection of Byzantine mosaics and icons.

Moving on you will visit Khan El-Khalili Bazaar, one of the last remaining markets from Cairo's medieval past. Here you can shop as much as you want or rest at a café as you watch people passing by while sipping tea and eating hummus.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, we depart for Alexandria, the historic port city on the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt's second-largest city. The city was made famous by the legends of Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, who ruled over Egypt from this strategic site.

Look for the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria, which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Then continue to Cleopatra's Needle before visiting Pompey's Pillar and Fort Qaitbey.  Pass by Pompey’s Pillar, once a popular landmark for promenading noblemen and women under the reign of the Pharaohs. Admire some of Egypt’s most beautiful mosques at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun and Al-Hussein Mosque before stopping at the Catacombs Sository to discover an ancient underground burial space.

On your way, your tour guide will tell you about the secrets of Alexander the Great in more detail and the story of his burial and his commandment to Ptolemy I to be buried there in Egypt.

The highlight of your day will be a visit to Taposiris Magna, an ancient ruin that reveals much about Alexandrian life in the time of Alexander the Great! After lunch at this site, join us for a city tour in Arabesque Square and visit El-Rashid Mosque which was built by Khedive Ismail.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Cairo Top Tours professional tour leader will meet you at the hotel in Cairo at 06:00 am to start your amazing Egypt Desert Safari Tours to Siwa, drive on to the beautiful bay of Marsa Matrouh on the North Coast where you are going to enjoy a delicious seafood lunch then continue to Siwa, about 6 hour drive from El Alamein. Enjoy a swim in a hot water spring before being transferred to the hotel for overnight in a beautiful Eco-lodge.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, you will continue your Siwa Oasis Desert Safari adventure and enjoy a visit to the ruins of the old town of Siwa (Shali) which has been melted down partly. then transfer to see the temple of Alexander the Great ( The Temple of The Oracle ) in the ancient Aghurmi village that dates back to the 26th dynasty.

Continue to visit the Temple of Amun Ra at Um Ubeyda which had been built in the honor of the triad of Amun. then experience the unique Siwan heritage through the Siwa House Museum to learn about the culture of the Bedouin tribes in Siwa, and have your lunch served in the Oasis popular square overlooking the Shali Fortress at Abdo restaurant.

Relaxing afternoon at Cleopatra Spring (Ein Guba) swimming and dipping into the sparkling natural water after that you will be transferred to Fitnas island to enjoy once in a lifetime Sunset view.

Overnight in Siwa.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Organic breakfast at the eco-lodge, then start the Great Sand Sea tour you will stop first at Maraki village to visit a unique archeological site at the great Siwa Mountain to see the first human footprint that had ever been discovered, continue our Safari tour in Siwa Oasis between the dunes till we arrive at the fossils area and see the rocky fossilized coral reefs which date back to the Cambrian age.

Drive to one of the fascinating sites in the great sand sea a beautiful lake in the middle of the desert it is a good chance to watch the flamingo birds, you can swim in the cold water of the lake enjoying the serenity of the desert, and bathing in a very relaxing atmosphere.

Then get excited by the sandboarding experience, although not as fast as snowboarding but with the right wax, you can shoot down some of the massive dunes in the great sand sea and have thrills to spare, after sandboarding it is time to wash up in the hot spring renowned as Bir Wahid for chilling and tranquilizing our muscles thanks to the 40 degrees warm water, enjoy another breathtaking Sun Set at the great sand sea in the middle of the dunes while having Bedouin tea.
Overnight in Siwa overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at the Eco-lodge, then continue your Siwa Oasis Adventure from Cairo to the rock-cut tombs in the Mountain of the Dead ( Jabal El Mawta ) visit the interesting tombs of the rulers of Siwa Oasis during the twenty-sixth dynasty like the tombs of SI Amon, Crocodile Tomb, after that tour to the Bedouin village of Abu Ali to enjoy the Bedouin lifestyle and see the one class school and other interesting features of their life and visit the probable Tomb of Alexander the Great and back to Siwa to visit Dakrour Mountain where the Siwi people celebrate the annual Tourism Festival of El Syaha at the first full moon of October. Back to your hotel and overnight in Siwa.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After having breakfast, Drive back to your hotel in Cairo accompanied by your Egyptologist guide and we hope you enjoyed your trip from Cairo.

Meals: Breakfast