Day 01
Ibn Tulun Mosque and Gayer-Anderson Museum Tour
- Get picked up and assisted from your hotel in Giza or Cairo.
- Start your tour at Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, the largest mosque in Egypt. The mosque covers more than six acres and features small outer courtyards, with galleries decorated with intricately carved stucco. There is also 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 maze of rooms has its own theme: a silver tea set and lacquered furniture are on display in the Queen Anne Room, while the Persian room features beautifully intricate tile work. The house also features an external staircase on its second story, which spirals up to its pinnacle.
- Take your lunch at a local restaurant and return to your hotel, where the tour ends.
