El Alamein And Alexandria Day Tour From Cairo

Today You will wake early, Enjoy your tasty breakfast in hotel or take your breakfast box with you, then meet WorldTourAdvice Representative in the lobby of your hotel,then you will be escorted to Alexandria & El Alamein, it take three hours drive in the western desert roads to arrive Egypt second Capital after Cairo ( Alexandria ) , One hour before arrival to Alexandria you go to visit El Alamein museum & cemetry, visit the place where important WWII battles were fought, 

Proceed tour from El Alamein to Alexandria accompanied by your Egyptian tour guide, start your day trip of Alexandria, Visit Pompey Pillar Pompey Pillar in Alexandria is a Roman triumphal column. Pompey Pillar is the biggest memorial column in Egypt. It is a huge column of Egyptian red granite, its about 28 m high, its diameter at the base is about 2,7 m, and towards its capital is about 2.3 m. Around Pompey Pillar you will see some Ancient sphinxs & statues some of them belonging to Cleopatra,the last queen of Ancient Egypt. After Cleopatra death, Egypt became indipendent province belonging to the Roman empire, visit a serapium which was old library & a temple for Apis Proceed your day trip to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa It is a group of tombs for families considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the middle Ages. It is consisting of a series of Ancient tombs, statues and archaeological objects mixed between the Pharaohnic funeral cult , Greek art and early Imperial Roman influences, A circular staircase, which in Ancient times in Alexandria was used to transport deceased bodies down the middle of it, leads down into the tombs that were tunneled into the bedrock during the age of the Antonine emperors There also is a famous hallcalled Karakalla hall contains a lot of bones of Alexandrian hourses. but Ancient Alexandrian people thought that these are bones of victims of Karakalla massacre so they called it Karakalla hall During Alexandriaday trip Lunch will be served in one of the most famous traditional restaurant in Alexandria, then go to your hotel, at night enjoy walking tour in the city.

Overnight in Alexandria

Early morning wake up, enjpy yopur breakfast, meet your tour guide, enjoy your Alexandria trip with your tour guide to see Qaitbay FortressOn The Mediterranean sea It was built as a military fortress to protect Alexandria by the Mamluk Ruler of Egypt El-Ashraf Qaitbay in the 15th C. Qaitbye fortress was built as a defensive fortress of Alexandria, he built it on the Eastern Island of Pharos on the same place of Alexandria old Light House (Faros) which was one of the 7 wonders of Ancient world, and he used it ruins and rocks to build the fortress, Alexandria light house got destroyed by a strong earthquake in the fourteenth Century. .Proceed your tour to Alexandria library: Alexandria Library . The original library doesn’t exist now in our world, it contained the largest collection of manuscripts in the world , Alexandria old library was one of the greatest center of learning in the world for more than 6 centuries until it burned down in the third century. The idea of reviving Alexandria old library dates back to 1974, when a committee set up by Alexandria University selected a plot of land for its new library, between the campus and the seafront, close to Alexandria ancient library place. The notion of recreating Alexandria ancient library was soon enthusiastically adopted by other individuals, Egypt president, Unesco and agencies. Proceed the tour to Alexandria roman theatre , its location is in Alexandria city centre. Dating from the second century A.D , Alexandria roman theatre has a large auditorium, about 42m in diameter. It was used as a theatre but later it was changed to be for religious Alexandrian festivals Proceed the tour to visit Muntazah palaces & gardens, These were the Royal palaces & gardens for Egyptian king during their vacation in Alexandria, But After thr revolution of 52, The last king of Egypt, King Farouk left to Italy, & the revolution government opened them for people End of your day trip to Alexandria from Cairo, if you want free time for shopping , then Drive back to Cairo to your hotel in Cairo.

- Accommodation 1 night in Alexandria
- All Transfers to travel between Cairo & Alexandria 2 directions & during the day trip by private modern air-conditioned coach
- Entrance fees to the monuments in El Alamein Alexandria trip as per itinerary
- Egyptology English speaking tour guide during Alexandria trip Or also on the way travelling from Cairo to Alexandria as
your request for the tour - Lunch meal in good traditional restaurant in Alexandria
- Service charges and taxes of the trip is included
- Shopping tour in Alexandria