This private guided tour enables you to see some local sites in Cairo. Visit the Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo, passing by the Garbage City in Cairo and The City of the Dead.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Egyptologist tour guide with the language you speak
✔ Lunch in a local restaurant
✔ Round trip transfer from/to your destination in a private air-conditioned vehicle
✔ Bottled water during your trip
✔ All taxes & service charges
✔ Entrance fees to all the mentioned sites as per the itinerary
✖ Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
✖ Tipping
Pickup Locations
1. Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam Casino
2. Ultra Loaloa Nile Maadi Hotel
3. Hilton Cairo Zamalek Residences
4. Hilton Cairo Grand Nile
5. Helio Cairo Hotel
6. Royal Marshal Hotel
7. Regency Hotel
8. JW Marriott Hotel Cairo
9. Gulf Tower
10. Logistic City Stars Hotel
11. The St. Regis New Capital, Cairo
12. Makram Ebeid Apartment
13. Triumph Luxury Hotel
14. Cairo Hotel
15. Novotel Cairo Airport
16. Flamenco Hotel Cairo
17. New Aleegiance Hotel
18. Nile Sky Suites Hotel
19. Grand Nile Plaza
20. Victory Of Downtown Hotel
Additional Info: We will pickup you from your hotel in Cairo or Giza
Itinerary
1
Cave Church
Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at 10:00 am to start your day tour to visit The Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is the largest and has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000. It is worth a visit if you are interested to see something different in Egypt.
Duration: 2 hours
2
Cairo
Then passing by the Garbage City in Cairo, a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People” because they have been sustaining themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew. The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big-city dreams. Being very poor, and without a solid 401k plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling the city’s compostable waste products by feeding them to their pigs. Today, Cairo’s Garbage People make ends meet by going door to door to pick up people’s trash for a nominal fee. There, they sort and recycle everything they could, using it for their own manufacturing. Note: you will be passing through Garbage Place without getting off from the car to ensure your safety as this is our main concern.
3
City of the Dead (Northern Cemetery)
Visit The City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.
Duration: 60 minutes
Additional info
• Wheelchair accessible
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
