Ancient And Medieval Tour Itinerary
Departure: Every Day
Length : 8 Hours
Type: Sightseeing Tour in Cairo
Guide : Private Professional, Egyptology Tour Guide
Price: Start From 50 $ Per person
Tour itinerary :
Cairo Sightseeing, Day Trip To Old Cairo, The Egyptian Museum
The glories of Egypt are by no means limited to the age of the pharaohs. Medieval Cairo is a well preserved medieval city, even
better than Istanbul or old Delhi. It is a bustling warren of crumbling bazaars, caravan serais, hammams, and tea shops. It has
giant medieval gateways, a Byzantine fortress packed with Coptic Christian churches, and several gorgeous medieval mosques.
Early morning your private tour guide will meet you at your hotel in Cairo, to start visit to the most important sightseeing in Cairo,
the highlight in Cairo is the Egyptian museum, including more than 160,000 articraft, the most attractive part in the Egyptian
museum in Cairo, is twhere the treasures of king Tut Ankh Amon are exhibited, golden masks & coffins of more than 3600 years
ago, you will spend not less than 2 hours in the Egyptian museum, all of it included except the mummies room which is with extra
ticket, Enjoy your Lunch, then continue your Cairo Sightseeing tour.
sightseeing tour to the Medieval period to visit Saladine citadel & Old Cairo:
Proceed the tour to see the Highlight of medieval & Islamic Cairo, Saladin citadel, which was built by the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din between 1176-1183 as military barracks. Later it was used as a royal residence for the Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and Khedival rulers of Egypt from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, visit` the white Alabaster mosque, built by Mohammed Ali two centuries ago, inside the citadel, Proceed your Cairo sightseeings tour to visit Coptic cristian Cairo ( old Cairo ), Tour to the hanging church built on Babilion fortress, visit the holy place which was a crypt for Jesus when he was a child, the synagogue where the prophet Moses was found also when he was a child in a basket on the River Nile by the pharaoh wife who saved him from being killed by the pharaoh who was killing all new born babies.Lunch during the trip, you end your tour by free time in the most famous & eldest market in Middle East ( Khan El Khalili Market )
Ancient And Medieval Tour Includes
What is included in Cairo Sightseeing day trip :
- Pick up services from your hotel in Cairo
- Guided tours as in itinerary
- Lunch meal
-Two mineral water bottles
- Tickets to all the mentioned places in Cairo
Ancient And Medieval Tour Excludes
What is excluded in Cairo Sightseeing day trip :
- Any Optinal tours not mentioned above
- Beverages not specified
- Tipping
Ancient And Medieval Cairo Highlights
- Old Cairo churches & Synagogue
- Cairo citadel
- The white alabaster mosque
- Khan El Khalili mosque