Visit El Mokattam Mountain Cave Church, or the Monastery of St Simon, on a private tour that also explores the magnificent churches of Coptic Cairo.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Private qualified English-speaking Egyptologist guide
✔ Hotel pickup and drop-off
✔ Bottled water
✔ modern Air-conditioned transportation
✔ Lunch at good quality restaurant
✖ other Languages Egyptologist guide are available up to request
✖ Tipping, beverages, extra activities, and Personal spending
✖ Pick-up outside Cairo City (25 USD per person)
Pickup Locations
1. Ramses Hotel
2. Gardenia Pyramids view inn
3. Pyramids Hotel
4. Vg Hotel
5. Kemet Pyramids Inn
6. City Inn Alshwarbi Hotels
7. Grand Palace Hotel
8. The Location Hotel
9. Town Pyramids
10. Jana Pyramids View in 3
11. Anas House
12. Golden Palace Down Town
13. Life Pyramids Inn
14. Elite Pyramids Boutique Hotel
15. Royal city hotel
16. The View Delta Hotel
17. DeJoya Hotel
18. TUI Pyramids View
19. Pyramids Sun Land Veiw
20. Cairo City Center Dreamers Hotel & Suits
Additional Info: We do pickup all travelers outside Cairo city at supplement.
Itinerary
1
St Simon the Tanner Monastery
The "Cave Church" in Egypt is one of the largest churches in the country, a place where 70,000-plus Christians gather every week to worship and praise Jesus - a place that's home to one of the world's oldest Christian communities.
The cave, also known as the Monastery of Saint Simon, is located in the Mokattam mountain area, Cairo.
In fact, this arrangement worked so well, that successive waves of migrants came from Upper Egypt to live and work in the newly founded garbage villages of Cairo, Visit Old Cairo where you see some of the earliest Christian churches in Middle east from 300 AD visit the Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Barbara, the hanging church, and the old Jewish synagogue called Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Duration: 5 hours
Additional info
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Wheelchair accessible
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• We do pickup all travelers outside Cairo city with an extra cost of $25 per person
