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Day 1 – Cairo
Arrived at the airport of Cairo where our representative will accomodate you and assist in the various steps to follow. You will be then accompanied in the private car to your hotel. Night in hotel.
Day 2 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. Visit plate of Gizeh with the three large Pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head which incarnates the king or the god under an aspect avenger. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, visits of Memphis, a colossus of Ramsès II out of alabaster of beautiful dimensionsnight in hotel.
Day 3 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel. Visit Citadel of Saladin, with in its enclosure the mosque of Mohamed Ali. also the coptic district, this district is older than the city itself: it should be seen to have an idea of the atmosphere in which the first Christians in Egypt lived. Churches coptes,coptic museum, church of Serge Saint. Stop by the visit of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, founded in 1857 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who shelters more than 250.000 parts of which the fabulous treasure of Toutankhamon. Night in hotel.
Day 4 – Cairo
Breakfast in hotel and transfer in the private car to the international airport of Cairo for your departure.
NB: Modifiable program following your needs, thank you to indicate your exact changes at the time of your request. Possibility of adding or of substituting the days of visits below has those initially proposed:
Day A
Breakfast in hotel. Visit of Dachour with the red pyramid and the Bent pyramid. Then visit of the necropolis of Sakkarah with the famous pyramid with degrees of king Djoser, the royal pyramids, the funerary texts, the mastabas.... And to finish the day, the Pyramids with the three large pyramids: Khéops, Khéphren and Mykérinos; and the Sphinx, Lion with human head
Day B
Breakfast in hotel. Visit of Cairo Islamic with the visits of: the mosque of the Sultan Hasan (1359), largest of Islamic architecture in Egypt; the Mosque of El Rifaei, the tombs of some of the members of the royal family rest like Khidepe Ismael and his four wives of which the famous Genevieve; the s?ur of Ferdinand de Liceps; as well as king Farouq etc...; the Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulum (878), most former who built; the Museum of Gayer Anderson, with the two houses of the Othoman time bought by this English doctor. You will be able to see the collection of anquities which it reported during its voyages throughout the world like India, Europe, China, Iran, Syria; the Maghreb etc...; the house of Ibrahim Kathuda El Sinnari (1794), founded for the scientists of Napoleon. Night in hotel.
Day C
Breakfast in hotel. Visit of Cairo Fatimide with the visits of: Visit street Al Mouez: Diving in Cairo Fatimide (969-1171) with the Al Azhar mosque, the second older mosque built in Egypt (972). Same time visits Al Aqmar mosque with its splendid frontage which will be then adopted later for the frontage of the Copte Museum and the Al mosque Hakem (XIe century). Al Futuh gates, oldest of the city of Cairo: - that of the time Ayyoubide (dynasty of Saladin 1171-1250). Outside, admire the complex Al frontage Salih Ayyoub that which faced Saint Louis (Louis IX), - time Mamelouk (1250-1517); with the funerary complexes including/understanding the mosque, the college and tombs, - Othoman time (1517-1805) with Sabil of Raman Abdel Katkhuda and the house of El Sihémi. To finish, the architectural visit of the Souk Khan El Khalili, artisanal work and lanes with the Egyptian atmospheres. Night in
hotel.
Day D
Breakfast in hotel. Visit Al Azhar mosque, founded of them 970, is one of the oldest mosques of Cairo and the seat of University Al Azhar, the second older university still active in the world. Then Park Al Azhar which are the most recent park and one of most beautiful of Cairo. Located just at the North of the citadel, it offers a splendid sight on the mosque of Saladin and in the West on the unit of the Cairo Old man. Then visit of the Cemetery where the alive ones live with deaths. And finally you will go to the Souk khan el khalili. Night in hotel.
Day E (Special Day for the children)
Breakfast in hotel. Visit Zoo logical CAP of Cairo. Then direction the Pharaonic Village, On a small island on the Nile opposite the old man Cairo, this village gives you a small idea what was the everyday life at the time of the Pharaons, you will see a whole village of old Egypt. Night in hotel.
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