Itinerary

1. Explore the Hidden Sites of Cairo

   • Meet the tour guide, who will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo at 10:00 a.m. and start the tour by visiting the famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon, 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.
   • Pass by the Garbage City, located in a very local neighbourhood that is called Manshiyat Naser, or “Garbage City in Cairo” as it’s better known, is a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People” because they have been sustaining themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew. The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big city dreams and land under their feet. Being very poor and without a solid 401k plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling 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 own manufacturing.

   (Note: You will be passing through Garbage Place without getting off from the car as the place is almost full of garbage with a very bad smell that can cause diseases. That`s why we created a passing-through trip because customer safety is our main concern.)

   • Go to The City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.
   • Drop off at the location.