Full-day tour to the cities and church of Cairo
Highlights
Cairo
religious, archaeological, sightseeing
Private Tour
1 Day
Easy
English
Description
Sign-up for this day trip to Cairo and see its highlights including the famous Cave Church of St. Simeon in Cairo. Pass through the Garbage City and the City of the Dead, an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills.
Itinerary
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Garbage City and Church of St. Simeon
- Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at 10:00 am to start your day tour to visit the famous Cave Church of St. Simeon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simeon, the Tanner, is the largest and has an amphitheatre with a seating capacity of 20,000. It is worth a visit if you are interested to see something different in Egypt.
- Then pass by the Garbage City in Cairo, located in a very local neighbourhood called Manshiyat Naser, a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as "Garbage People" because they sustain themselves for decades as Cairo's unofficial sanitation crew. The Garbage people, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s searching for big-city dreams and land under their feet. Being very poor and without a solid plan, they lived in makeshift housing and recycled the city's compostable waste products by feeding them to their pigs. Today, Cairo's Garbage People make ends meet by going door to door to pick up people's trash for a nominal fee, which is then brought back to their Garbage City neighbourhoods. There, they sort and recycle everything they can, using it for their manufacturing.
Note: You will be passing through the Garbage Place without getting off from the car as the place is full of garbage and foul smell that can cause diseases, and customer's safety is our prime concern. - Proceed to the City of the Dead, an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.
Meals: Lunch.
What's Included
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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 1 | /person |
| 2 to 3 | /person |
| 4 to 100 | /person |
| Child | |
| 1 to 4 | /person |
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This is a private tour |
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