Today, after eating your open buffet breakfast at the hotel, you will be met by your tour guide, who will accompany you through your Cairo day tour to the Giza Pyramids, Dahshur, and Memphis. Start your Cairo day tours with the Giza Pyramids tour, where you will be astonished by the size of these massive structures built during the Old Kingdom of ancient Egyptian history by the most powerful kings and rulers of ancient Egypt to be proof of the accomplishments they achieved 4500 years ago, thanks to the Nile River.
See the Great Pyramid of King Cheops, who was affected by his father's attempts to build gigantic burial tombs. King Cheops (known as Khufu in ancient Egyptian) built his monumental pyramid using over 2.3 million limestone blocks. Intended as his eternal resting place and a gateway to the heavens, this architectural marvel originally soared to a height of 146 meters, with each side measuring an impressive 230 meters in length.
passing by the high plateau to get a scenic view of the 3 pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus. Chephren, who was the son of Cheops, built his pyramid slightly smaller than his father's, with a height of 136 meters, with some remains of the outer casing at the top.
Head to the Great Sphinx of Giza, a majestic statue with the body of a lion and the face believed to represent King Chephren himself, standing sentinel within his pyramid complex. Step inside the Valley Temple, the ancient site where royal mummification rituals were performed as part of the king’s journey to the afterlife.
Continue your tours in Cairo by moving to the site where the oldest capital of Egypt was, the ancient city of Memphis, now known as Mit Rahina, and see the open-air museum with the second-biggest sphinx made out of alabaster and the colossal statue of King Ramses II, who was the most powerful king during the New Kingdom.
Head to the Dahshur Archaeological site to see the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid, two of the four pyramids built for King Snefru, founder of the 4th dynasty and the father of King Cheops. The Bent Pyramid still retains a large percentage of outer casing limestone, which makes it one of the most unique pyramids in Egypt. The Red Pyramid was identified by the reddish color of the limestone blocks used in its shape and is considered the 1st perfect-shaped pyramid in the history of Egypt.
You will have a gourmet lunch in a good-quality restaurant overlooking the pyramids of Giza before being transferred back to your hotel.