Dayr Mawas Trip Overview
Enjoy visiting El Minya from Cairo in a comfortable private van with one of our multi language educated tour guides and avoid the hassle and skip the line. You will get to see and learn about Tell El Amarna is capital city newly established (1346 BC) and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty and visit Beni Hasan is an ancient Egyptian cemetery While there are some Old Kingdom burials at the site, it was primarily used during the Middle Kingdom and visit Deir al Adhra This Christian church Holy Family visited in their wanderings in Egypt.
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Duration: 13 hours
Starts: Dayr Mawas, Egypt
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Attraction Tickets
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What to Expect When Visiting Dayr Mawas, Al Minya Governorate, Egypt
Enjoy visiting El Minya from Cairo in a comfortable private van with one of our multi language educated tour guides and avoid the hassle and skip the line. You will get to see and learn about Tell El Amarna is capital city newly established (1346 BC) and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty and visit Beni Hasan is an ancient Egyptian cemetery While there are some Old Kingdom burials at the site, it was primarily used during the Middle Kingdom and visit Deir al Adhra This Christian church Holy Family visited in their wanderings in Egypt.
Visit: Tell el-Amarna, Dayr Mawas Egypt
Pickup from your hotel in Cairo or Giza by our tour guide. Then drive to Al Minya its 222 kilo-meters (138 miles). From the moment your tour starts, your guide will give you full attention. Once in the car, your guide will talk to you about all the things on the way as well as other aspects of your tour that will interest you.
Arrive, then visit Tell El Amarna is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly established (1346 BC) and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and abandoned shortly after his death (1332 BC).
Duration: 5 hours
Visit: Beni Hassan, Al Minya Egypt
Then visit Beni Hasan is an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It is located approximately 20 kilometers (12 mi) to the south of modern-day Minya in the region known as Middle Egypt.
While there are some Old Kingdom burials at the site, it was primarily used during the Middle Kingdom, spanning the 21st to 17th centuries BCE (Middle Bronze Age)
To the south of the cemetery is a temple constructed by Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, dedicated to the local goddess Pakhet It is known as the Cave of Artemis, because the Greeks identified Pakhet with Artemis, and the temple is subterranean.
Lunch at one of the local Egyptian restaurants.
Then visit Deir al Adhra This Christian church stands on the east bank of the Nile some forty kilometers north of the Minya Bridge in Middle Egypt, one of the locations that the Holy Family visited in their wanderings in Egypt. It is said that, while passing by this place in a small boat headed up river.
Then Travel in comfort back to your hotel.
Duration: 8 hours