Day 01
Cairo's Great Museums Tour
- Meet your tour guide at your hotel in Cairo or Giza and set out to explore the museums of Cairo.
- Visit the Egyptian Museum, which houses the most extensive collection of Pharaonic antiquities in the world. The museum displays a vast collection spanning from the Predynastic Period to the Greco-Roman Era. It also houses the splendid statues of the great kings Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, the builders of the pyramids at the Giza plateau. An extensive collection of papyri, sarcophagi, and jewellery, among other objects, completes this uniquely expansive museum.
- Then, continue to the Museum Of Royal Carriages, which exhibits around 78 historically valuable royal carriages. Twenty-two carriages in this collection were gifts presented to the rulers of Egypt since the reign of Khedive Ismail.
- Have lunch in a local restaurant and proceed to the Museum Of Islamic Art in Cairo, which is considered one of the largest and oldest museums in the world. The museum hosts more than 104,000 displays reflecting the greatness of Islamic civilization in Egypt and across the Islamic world, showing how it flourished and changed throughout history.
- Then, visit the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, the first museum dedicated to the entire Egyptian civilization. More than 50,000 artifacts relate to the stages of the development of civilization from the earliest times to the modern era. You can see the display of a 35,000-year-old skeleton and the first and oldest watch known by the ancient Egyptians. It also includes the most important collection of mummies, including Ramses II, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III.
- At the end of the tour, you will be dropped back at your hotel.
