CAIRO & BAHARIYA PACKAGE
Arrival Day
Galaxia Tours representative meets you inside the airport before the passport control, carrying a sign with your names. He helps with visa* and passport formalities and to pick up your luggage.
Our transfer car (minibus or larger depending on how many you are traveling together) and transfer guide takes you to the hotel and arrange for your check in. He will also inform you about your program, timing etc.
Museum and Pyramids (the Day before or after the safari).
Our transfer guide will introduce you to your local guide and the excursion can start. A visit to the Egyptian Museum is an absolute must on a tour to Cairo. Your guide will take you through the history of Pharaonic Egypt with the help of the artifacts exhibited, from Narmer to Akhnaton and Ramses. Of course, the galleries with the treasures of Tutankhamon will be carefully explained.
After lunch we continue to the most famous sight in Egypt of course, the Pyramids at the Giza Plateau, dating back to 2500 B.C. One of the seven classic Wonders of the World, they are the oldest and the only remaining. The visit will take us to the highest point of the plateau to have a panoramic view of the area, to one of the three pyramids (Cheops, Kephren or Mycerinos), where those who wish may enter, as well as the valley temple of Kephren and the mysterious Sphinx.
Coptic and Islamic Cairo (Another day before or after safari)
Christianity came to Egypt with Mark in the first century A.D., and the largest Christian communities in Egypt, the Copts, call their church one of the oldest in the world. We will hear about the holy family?s flight to Egypt, about the first monks and monasteries and about how Pharaonic art and symbols made their way into the new religion. Then we visit on of the churches which provided shelter to the Holy Family after escaping Herodes.
We then continue to one of the most magnificent mosques of Cairo, El Rifai, where we will learn more about Islam. The mosque is also the burial site of among others King Farouq and the last Shah of Iran.
We end our tour in the very oriental bazaar district called Khan El Khalili. While walking through this famous bazaar we observe daily life and the oriental character of this place with its typical shops and caf |
