8-Hour Tour to Cave Church, Garbage City & the City of the Dead in Cairo
Highlights
Cairo
historical, sightseeing, Cave
Private Tour
8 Hours
Easy
English
Description
Go on an 8-hour tour to the off-beat places in Cairo, Egypt. Visit the famous cave churches of St. Simon, pass by the Garbage City, and drive to the City of the Dead. Learn about each places' intriguing history from your tour guide, have lunch at a local restaurant, then depart for your hotel in Cairo.
Itinerary
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Cave Church, Garbage City & The City of the Dead in Cairo
- Have breakfast at the hotel and meet with your tour guide at 10:00 am.
- Visit the famous cave churches 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 one in Egypt and has an amphitheatre with a seating capacity of 20,000.
- Drive by the Garbage City, 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.
- Travel to the City of the Dead, an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.
Meals: Lunch.
What's Included
What's Excluded
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
| Adult | |
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| 1 to 10 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 10 | /person |
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This is a private tour |
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