Day 01
Manial Palace, Nilometer, and Cairo Tower
- A representative will pick you up from your hotel to enjoy an excursion to Manial Palace. You will visit Mohamed Ali's home, rooms, the unique planet garden, the Mummified Animal Museum, the treasury, and meeting rooms. Then proceed to visit the Nilometer at Al Roda Island. After that, visit the Cairo Tower, where you can take photos of the beautiful panoramic view.
- The Cairo Tower, or El-Gezira Tower (Brag El qahari) in the Arabic language, is considered one of the most prominent features of the Egyptian capital. Its partially open lattice-work design is intended to evoke a lotus plant. Cairo Tower was built from 1956 to 1961 during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser with Soviet assistance. The tower is 187 m high, which is 50 meters higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and it stands on a base of Aswan granite stones that the ancient Egyptians used to build their monasteries and temples of the pharaohs. It contains 16 floors, and the elevator ride to the top takes 45 seconds. From the top, you can enjoy a full panorama of Cairo, including the pyramids, the television building, the Sphinx, the Nile, Castle Salaheidin, and Azhar. It is a wonderful and spectacular view of Cairo. There is also a telescope to see Egypt in a single moment, a cafeteria on floor 15, and a rotating restaurant on floor 14 at a height of 160 meters, where the waiters are dressed like ancient Egyptians. Cairo Tower is considered an architectural masterpiece and a major attraction for tourists visiting Egypt.
- Back to hotel.
