CAIRO LOVERS – Gate To Egypt

One day tours of Cairo

Explore Cairo;

There is a lot to do in Cairo, so we offer several day tours of the highlights of Cairo. Pick and choose whatever is convenient to you … All tours include round trip transport from your hotel in a van or car with heat/AC and a Tour Guide fluent in your preferred language (we provide different language speaking guides) We can also stop in the middle of these tours for Lunch or a tea or coffee break (optional). Our guides know the best places to eat or to take coffee/tea breaks!

Cairo Day Tour #1

Start your day with the only Ancient Wonder still standing - The Great Pyramids. We will explore the Great pyramids of Khufu (Chiops), Khafra (Khefren) and Menkaura (Mekrenece). Then on to spend time enjoying the timeless Sphinx .

Heading south we will visit the first and the oldest pyramid of the world - Sakkara Pyramid or The Step Pyramid which is at least 2700 B.C. After leaving the Sakkara site we will stop by the open-air Museum of Memphis, where we will see the remaining artifacts from the first and oldest capital of ancient Egypt.

Cairo Day Tour #2

Start this tour by wandering around the golden treasures of the Pharaoh Tut Ankh Amon and enjoying the different unique treasures of other pharaohs at the Egyptian Museum. Your guide will select particularly important pieces for your tour as there are thousands of items on display.

Egypt is unique in that 3 religions have lived together peacefully during periods of their history. So we will first take you to Old Cairo to see two Coptic churches dating from the 4th &5th century A.D - St. Sergius Church & St. Barbra Church. Then we will visit the Synagogue of Abraham ben Izra, where the Giniza collection of scrolls was discovered.

Then we travel to the Mosque of Mohamed Ali or the Alabaster Mosque, located inside the Citadel of Salah Eldin, dating to the 12th century A.D. It is not the oldest mosque in Egypt but certainly one of the most unique, containing the mausoleum of King Mohamed Ali.

We will end the day at the Khan El Khalil Market, where you can enjoy shopping or simply sit in one of the coffee shops enjoying the sights of the market while drinking tea with mint(shay b ne’naa’)

Cairo Day Tour #3

Take a tour of Islamic Cairo and enjoy the Islamic art. We will visit the Sultan Hassan Mosque. This mosque is a working mosque, but the style and the art you will see at this mosque is unique. Next to the Sultan Hassan Mosque is a smaller mosque built to match, but of a different style inside and contains the royal mausoleums of The Mohamed Ali Family.

We will then visit Ibn Tolun Mosque which is the third Mosque ever built in Egypt and is still standing. It is a large and wide open space. Then it is on to the Gayer Anderson Museum based in an old building from the Mamlouk times dating from the 14th century A.D.

Then we will take a pleasant stroll through Al Mo’z Street, which is one of the oldest street now renewed. The buildings and people take you back in time along this wonderful street. We end the tour at the Bazaar of the Khan El Khalili.

Cairo Day Tour #4

Tour old Coptic Cairo and visit three Christian churches:
(1) St. Sergius Church - one of the most famous and important churches in Egypt. This church is where the Holy family stayed for at least 6 months living in a crypt.
(2)St. Barbra church – also believed to have hosted the Holy Family for a period of time.
(3) The Hanging Church - built on top of a Roman fortress supported only by parts of the fortress walls with parts of the church suspended over air.
Afterward we visit the Coptic Museum with its well displayed collection of Christian relics.

Cairo Day Tour # 5

Tour the fabled gates of Old Cairo. The eight gates are from the Fatimid period and only 3 remain.
The Arabic word for gate is “Bab” - we have Bab El Ftouh, Bab El Nasser, and Bab Zewila. We will walk from Bab Zewila through El Khayamia street, where locals still sew tents and cochin covers as they have for centuries. Along this street you will see the old building and windows (Mashrabia in Arabic) with the wood work that is so special.
We will walk by Cairo’s own Blue Mosque (different from Turkey’s but still interesting to see). While walking through Bab Zewalia you will find yourself walking through Al Mo’z Steet .
Al Mo’z was the founder of the Fatimid period in Egypt 970 A.D , and it is an amazing experience to walk through in the evening and see the mix of tourists and the Egyptians together. See our night tour to experience this street at night.

Cairo Day Tour #6

For the pyramid lovers, a tour of the pyramids around Cairo! We will begin the tour with the Great Pyramids of Giza (Kufu ,Kafra, and Menkawra).
Then on to Dahshour Pyramids where we will spend time at the beautiful Red and Bent Pyramids King Senfru father of Kufu built these two pyramids about 30K to the south of the Great Pyramid. The Bent Pyramid as begun but when they reached the height of about 48m, the architects didn’t trust the pyramid would stand so they decreased the angle, thus ending with a bent shaped pyramid.

Egyptologist believe the Pharoah was buried in the Bent Pyramid and not the Red Pyramid. The nearby Red Pyramid was built, perhaps to prove that a pyramid shaped structure could be built? This reason for its name is apparent as you approach it – the stone appears red from a distance.

On the return trip, we will tour the Sakkara Pyramid complex, which contains the oldest pyramid ever built in Egypt (about 2700 BC).

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