3-Day Cairo, Giza and Alexandria Tour with Pyramids and Coptic Cairo

Meet your Egyptologist guide at your hotel and get picked up in an air-conditioned van.

Start your day by visiting the Egyptian Museum, home to 165,000 Egyptian artifacts.

You can also visit the Mummies Hall at an additional cost.

Have lunch at a restaurant located by the River Nile.

Next, continue to the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and still, to this day, a riddle.

Enjoy some free time, or enter one of the pyramids at an additional cost if you wish.

Do some shopping and visit a perfume factory and a traditional papyrus institute, where you can see how papyrus is made and purchase a unique gift.

Drive back to your hotel.

Get picked up by your tour guide from your hotel in an air-conditioned van.

Travel to Alexandria and visit the 3rd-century Pompey's Pillar, a 25-meter red Aswan granite column that is the last remaining relic of the Seraphim Temple.

Proceed to the Lighthouse of Alexandria and learn many interesting stories about ancient Roman emperors.

Next, visit Qaitbay Citadel, situated at the entrance to Alexandria's eastern harbour.

Visit the largest Roman cemetery, the Catacombs, consisting of three levels cut into the rock.

Finally, return to your hotel.

Get picked up by your tour guide to visit the Hanging Church, named for its location above a gatehouse of Babylon Fortress.

Visit the Coptic Museum, which houses the largest collection of Egyptian Christian artifacts in the world.

Near the Coptic Museum is the Ben Ezra Synagogue. This was the synagogue whose genizah, or storeroom, was found in the 19th century to contain a treasure of abandoned Hebrew.

Next, visit the Citadel of Saladin, a fortification in Cairo.

Have lunch, followed by a walk through Khan El Khalili Street.

Return to your hotel.