A day Tour To Egyptian Museum , Citadel And Old Cairo

Itinerary
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Pass By: Cairo Citadel, Al Abageyah Shar'a Salih Salem, Cairo 11511 Egypt

Our expert tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and accompany you for tour to Egyptian Museum citadel and Old Cairo. Start your private day tour to visit the Egyptian Museum of antiquities, home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts. You will also see the glittering treasures of the boy king Tutankhamun and other great pharaohs. And then, enjoying free time at leisure Move to visit the Citadel of Saladin, which was fortified by the Ayyubid ruler Salah al-Din (Saladin) between 1176 and 1183 ad. The Citadel is sometimes referred to as Mohamed Ali Citadel, because it contains Muhammad Ali alabaster mosque, the largest mosque built in the first half of the 19th century (1830 and 1848 ad). Continuing to visit old Cairo (Coptic Cairo), which encompasses many old churches and ruins of the fort Babylon around which many of the Egyptian Christians oldest churches were built. You will see the Hanging Church and other Coptic churches, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, the first mosque ever built in Egypt, 641–642 AD. And then, transfer back to your hotel in Cairo