Egypt · City Tours

From Cairo: Alexandria Private Day Tour with Guide and Lunch

9 Hours Round trip from Pickup service provided in Cairo. Easy pace

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Private day tour from Cairo to Alexandria
02 Visit the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
03 See Pompey’s Pillar and the Citadel of Qaitbay
04 Explore Bibliotheca Alexandrina and its open court
05 Travel with a qualified Egyptologist guide
06 Includes private transport, bottled water, and local lunch

Discover the highlights of Alexandria on a private day trip from Cairo, travelling in an air-conditioned vehicle with a qualified Egyptologist guide. Explore one of Egypt’s most historic coastal cities as you visit major archaeological and cultural landmarks, with time to learn about the layers of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian heritage that shaped Alexandria.

Your day includes visits to the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Pompey’s Pillar, the Citadel of Qaitbay, and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, along with bottled water and a local lunch. With private transport and hotel pickup included, this is a comfortable way to experience Alexandria’s most famous sights in a single day.

Kom El Shoqafa contains a collection of tombs, statues, and archaeological artifacts associated with the Pharaonic funeral mortuary cults and Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences.

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What this trip includes

Duration 9 Hours

Tour type Private

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Included

Wheelchair access No

Cities Alexandria, Cairo

Languages English

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The itinerary

Day 01

At 7:00 am, we will pick you up from your hotel and head straight to Alexandria, where we will spend the next two and a half hours traveling by highway to get to our starting point "Kom El Shoqafa" in Alexandria. Kom El Shoqafa contains a collection of tombs, statues, and archaeological artifacts associated with the Pharaonic funeral mortuary cults and Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Because of the time, many of the characteristics of Kom El Shoqafa's catacombs combine Roman, Greek, and Egyptian cultural points; some statues are Egyptian in style but wear Roman clothes and hairstyles, while others share a similar style. A circular staircase descends into the tombs tunneled into the bedrock during the Antonine emperors' reign. (2nd century AD)From the 2nd to the 4th centuries, the building was used as a burial chamber before being rediscovered in 1900.It Will be the secondary attraction. The Pompey Pillar's moniker is deceptive. Gaius Pompey, a Roman general, and consul, was a rival of Julius Caesar in a civil war and was assassinated by a Ptolemaic pharaoh in 48 BC as he escaped to Alexandria. This single column, which is perched on a rocky hilltop in the center of Alexandria, has nothing to do with him. Crusaders believed his grave was marked by a 100-foot (30-meter) red Aswan granite pillar, which is how this tale got its start. The pillar is a triumphal monument built for the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the year 300 AD, but the real importance of this archaeological site lies in what was here before the pillar. The Serapeum, Alexandria's acropolis, is located there.the third stop will be this. In Alexandria, Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea the coast, stands the 15th-century defensive fortress known as the Citadel of Qaitbay or the Fort of Qaitbay. In 1477 AD (882 AH), Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay founded it. The Citadel is located at the mouth of the Eastern Harbour on the eastern edge of Pharos Island's northern tip.We will visit The world's largest library: "Bibliotheca Alexandrina", which currently has 8 million Books. Visit its open court to see the statues of Ptolemy the First and Alexander the Great, Which were both discovered close underwater. You will go to "The President Saddat Museum" and the "Alexandria Museum" of Impressions. Please note that the Alexandria Library is closed on Fridays, Saturdays, and legal holidays. You will need to buy a ticket to access the reading section. Finally, we will travel to the beginning location for around 2.5 hours on the highway.

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