Why choose this Cairo tour ?
Begin your lovely day by meeting your guide at your hotel; take the highway from Cairo (about 4 hours round trip), arrive in the famous city, and begin exploring the city with your tour guide, who will describe the city’s ancient history. Beginning with “The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa” and “Pompey’s Pillar” and passing by with the new “Alexandria Library” and the Citadel of Qaitbay and Roman Theater.
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What makes Alexandria Private Day Tour from Cairo a unique experience ?
At 7:00 am, we will pick you up from your hotel and head straight to Alexandria, where we will spend the next two and a half hours traveling by highway to get to our starting point Kom El Shurafa’s.
Kom El Shoqafa’s made up of a collection of tombs, statues, and archaeological artifacts associated with the Pharaonic funeral cult, as well as Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Because of the time period, many of the characteristics of Kom El Shoqafa’s catacombs combine Roman, Greek, and Egyptian cultural points; some statues are Egyptian in style, but wear Roman clothes and hairstyles, while others share a similar style. A circular staircase descends down into the tombs tunneled into the bedrock during the Antonine emperors’ reign. (2nd century AD)From the 2nd to the 4th centuries, the building was used as a burial chamber before being rediscovered in 1900.
It will be the secondary attraction. The Pompey Pillar’s moniker is deceptive. Gaius Pompey, a Roman general and consul, was a rival of Julius Caesar in a civil war. He was assassinated by a Ptolemaic pharaoh in 48 BC as he escaped to Alexandria. This single column, which is perched on a rocky hilltop in the center of Alexandria, has nothing to do with him. Crusaders believed his grave was marked by a 100-foot (30-meter) red Aswan granite pillar, which is how this tale got its start. The pillar is actually a triumphal monument built for the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the year 300 AD, but the real importance of this archaeological site lies in what was here before the pillar. The Serapeum, Alexandria’s acropolis, is located there.
The third stop will be this. In Alexandria, Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea the coast, stands the 15th-century defensive fortress known as the Citadel of Qaitbay or the Fort of Qaitbay. In 1477 AD (882 AH), Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa’it Bay founded it. The Citadel is located at the mouth of the Eastern Harbour on the eastern edge of Pharos Island’s northern tip.
The world’s largest library, which currently has 8 million Books. Visit its open court to see the statues of Ptolemy the First and Alexander the Great, which were both discovered close underwater. You will go to the President Saddat Museum and the Alexandria Museum of Impressions. Please take note that the Alexandria Library is closed on Fridays, Saturdays, and on legal holidays. You will need to buy a ticket in order to access the reading section. In the end, we will travel back to the beginning location for around 2.5 hours on the highway
Tour Description & Additional Info:
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Options To Choose for Your Trip:
Alexandria Private Day Tour from Cairo Inclusions:
Included with Your Ticket
- Lunch (If option selected)
- Transport by air-conditioned Car
- Qualified Egyptologist guide (If option selected)
- Entrance fees (If option selected)
- Bottled water
Not Included
- Gratuities
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Special Instructions:
- This Tour is Provided by Egypt Nice Tours.
- Tour Timezone & Starts at Africa/Cairo.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- Minimum 1 Travelers is required to book.
- Maximum 15 Travelers is accepted for booking.
