2-Day Cairo, Giza, Saqqara and Memphis Tour with Museum Highlights

• Pick up from the hotel at 7:00 am.

• Travel to one of the most ancient parts of the city, the Saqqara complex.

• Explore the Step Pyramid of Djoser, considered the first pyramid ever built, marking a major evolution in funerary construction as it moved from a simple mastaba to this pyramidal shape.

• Visit the Mastaba tombs of the nobles to see how the daily life activities of the ancient Egyptians are presented on the walls of these tombs.

• Discover the documentation of the fauna and flora of the Old Kingdom depicted in the tombs of the nobles.

• Have lunch at a local restaurant.

• Continue to visit the Giza Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, and Menkaure.

• Move to the Sphinx, the legendary guardian situated near the pyramid of King Chephren.

• Proceed to Memphis, the ancient capital of old Egypt, founded by King Menes, and see the Statue of Ramses II and the alabaster sphinx.

Return to the hotel.

• Visit the Egyptian Museum, famous for its antiquities from Egypt's Pharaonic period, including King Tutankhamen's treasures.

• Proceed to the Citadel of Saladin and the Mohammed Ali Alabaster Mosque, a mosque modelled after the Yeni Mosque in Istanbul.

• Explore the Christian heritage in Coptic Cairo, including the most famous and oldest Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.

• Continue to Mohammed Ali Mosque.

• Have lunch at a local restaurant.

• Explore the Valley Temple and the Papyrus Museum.

End of the tour.