Explore Cairo's Ibn Tulun Mosque & Gayer-Anderson Museum in 4 hours
Highlights
Cairo
architectural, cultural, museums
Private Tour
4 Hours
Easy
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Languages
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Description
Delve into the treasures of Cairo, Ibn Tulun Mosque, and the Gayer-Anderson Museum. Start at the Ibn Tulun Mosque, one of the oldest mosques in Egypt dating back to 879 AD. Then visit the Gayer-Anderson Museum next door to walk through its themed rooms ranging from the Queen Anne style to the Persian style.
Itinerary
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Explore Cairo's Ibn Tulun mosque and Gayer-Anderson Museum
- Get picked up and assisted from the hotel in Giza or Cairo.
- Start your tour at Ahmed Ibn Tulun mosque, the largest one in Egypt. The mosque covers more than six acres and features small outer courtyards, their galleries decorated with intricately carved stucco. Their is an inscription slab on-site denoting the date of the mosque’s completion as 879 AD.
- Proceed to the Gayer-Anderson Museum in the same area. A British Major and Army Doctor received special permission from the Egyptian authorities to reside in a pair of sixteenth-century houses, adjacent to the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo. A mosaic fountain mounted on a marble floor greets visitors in the museum’s reception area. Each of the mazes of rooms has a theme of a silver tea set, and lacquered furniture is on display in the Queen Anne Room, while the Persian room features beautifully intricate tile work. It features an external staircase on its second story, which spirals up to its pinnacle.
- Take your lunch in a local restaurant and return back to your hotel where the tour ends.
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
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