Cheap 6 Days Cairo Tour Package

Upon arrival to Cairo International Airport, you will be met and assisted by Egypt Key Tours representative who will help you during passport control, luggage area. Then, you will be transferred to you hotel in Cairo by a private air-conditioned vehicle for check in and overnight in Cairo.

At 9.00 am, Marvel at the Great pyramids of Giza, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. See the enigmatic great Sphinx – the oldest monumental sculpture in the world.

Wonder at the Egyptian Museum and see Tutankhamen’s priceless treasures which discovered by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Then you will be transferred back to your hotel for overnight .

Breakfast in the morning, after that Egypt Key tour guide will escort you to visit Coptic Cairo site, where you will visit the “Hanging Church”, dating back to the 3rd Century AD and it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It is called “Hanging” because of its location above the gatehouse of the ancient Roman fortress Babylon. It contains 110 Holy icons depicting beautiful religious scenes.

Then, you visit “Saint Sergius and Bacchus Church”, which is believed to have been built on the spot where the holy family rested at the end of their journey into Egypt.

Then, you visit the “Jewish Synagogue of Ben Ezra”, which gained its importance from its Geniza (Storeroom),was found during the 19th century containing a treasure of abandoned Hebrew secular and sacred manuscripts.

After that, you go to visit the Garbage city, which is Cairo’s largest informal garbage collectors settlement, where garbage recycling is done. In this city, you will visit the Cave Church (Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner), which is considered the largest in the Middle East and Egypt and it has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20.000.

After that ending the tour with some relaxing time at al Azhar Park in the heart of Old Cairo.

(Optional) Evening trip to enjoy your dinner on board a Nile cruise for 2 hours including watching Egyptian folk shows.

After finishing the trip, you will be transferred to your hotel to stay overnight in Cairo

In the morning, Egypt Key tour guide will meet and transfer you from your hotel to visit Sakkara, located south of Cairo. Sakkara is the largest ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the ancient capital Memphis, which is designated as world heritage site since 1979. Sakkara is considered the home of Egypt’s oldest pyramid.

You visit the ancient step pyramid of King Djoser, the founder of the 3^rd dynasty 2630 BC in Sakkara as you learn about the evolution of pyramid design. The step pyramid is the world’s oldest major stone structure built around 2630BC and the only one of its kind.

Moving towards Memphis, Egypt’s former capital that was founded by the Pharaoh Menes and once the cultural center of the ancient world and was a cult center for god Ptah god of creation and artworks and patron of craftsmen.

Last stop at Dahsur: the pyramid field of Dahsurlies 40 kilometers south of Cairo. at Dahsur, there are two pyramids, the first one called the bent pyramid and the second called the red pyramid built by the Pharaoh Snefru(father of Cheops, the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza) the founder of the 4^th dynasty during the old kingdom reigned Egypt for 48 years in 25th century BC.

Snefru built at least three pyramids that have survived to this day and introduced major innovation in the design and construction of pyramids.

(Optional) Evening trip to attend the Sound & Light show in the Pyramids area.

After the tour, our tour guide will drop you to your hotel to rest and stay overnight.

In the morning after breakfast, you will be escorted by your Egypt Key Tours tour guide to visit the Citadel of Saladin Al Ayouby, which is considered one of most stunning constructions in Cairo. It was built in the 12^th century AD to fortify Cairo against the crusaders. Inside the citadel, you will visit the great alabaster mosque of Mohammad Ali pasha, which is considered one of the most renowned historical and touristic landmarks in Egypt. The Great Mosque, along with the citadel, is one of the landmarks and tourist attractions of Cairo. The citadel is very famous for its fresh breeze and grand views of the city of Cairo.

Then, you will go to visit Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa, which is one of the extraordinary wonderful monuments in the Islamic world and described as one of the world’s greatest edifices. It was built in 14th century AD.

Al Refai Mosque (known as the Royal Mosque) lies right beside sultan Hassan Mosque.The Mosque was built in19^th century AD by Khoshiar Hanim, wife of Mohammed Ali, to be the mausoleum of the royal family.

After that,you visit the Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulun,the oldest and the largest mosque in Egypt dating back to the 9^th century AD, and watch the great view of Islamic Cairo from its unique spiral minaret 40 meter high.

Then, you visit the City of the Dead, or Cairo necropolis,which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.It is a 4 miles long dense grid of people who live and work amongst the dead.

As a last stop, you go to Khan Al Khalili Bazaar, which is one of Cairo’s main attractions. The site of Khan Al Khalili was originally a mausoleum called “Turbat El Zaafran” (saffron tomb), which was the burial of Fatimid Caliphs.The mausoleum was part of the Fatimid great eastern palace complex, begun in 970 AD,after that it became a district for the Turkish community during the Ottoman period. However, now it has become a bazaar, where you will find many souvenir shops,coffeehouses “Café” serving Arabic coffee and offering Hookah “Shisha” and restaurants throughout the area.

Khan Al-Khalili was located in the middle of Cairo’s most important zone of economic activity. A traditional and wonderful Bazaar that truly shows the true Egypt.

After the tour, our tour guide will drop you back to your hotel.

Checking out from your hotel after breakfast and transfer to Cairo Airport to fly back to your home.