Private Shore Excursion Giza Pyramids and Sakkara with Lunch from Alexandria
Private Shore Excursion Giza Pyramids and Sakkara with Lunch from Alexandria
Tour to Cairo from Alexandria
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Highlights
When your cruise ship is in Alexandria port, meet your guide and hop inside your private, air-conditioned minivan. Then, enjoy the views as you journey south through the Nile Valley to Cairo, Egypt’s bustling capital. On route, hear snippets about Cairo’s history and the Giza Pyramids.
After roughly three hours, arrive at the Giza Plateau and marvel at the exteriors of the UNESCO-listed main pyramids: Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus. Hear the secrets of these ancient tombs and how and why they were constructed from your guide.
Then, descend to the feet of the Great Sphinx and learn about this mysterious human-headed lion sculpture. Capture photos and then stroll around the nearby Valley Temple, believed to have been part of the funerary and mummification complex for the pyramid of Chephren.
Lunch is included in between visits at Local Restaurant
Then continue your day tour to Sakkara and Memphis City
.at the end of the Tour you will be transferred back to your port in Alexandria
Itinerary
Alexandria
3 hoursAdmission Ticket FreePickup from Alexandria by tour guide to start your tourPyramids of Giza
3 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedAt 6:00 am Pickup from your hotel by our expert Licensed tour guide and Transfer to Cairo which almost 220km Arrival to Cairo Start your Full Day Tour Visiting the Great Pyramids - Cheops, Chephren & Mykerinos then Visit the Valley Temple where the Priests Mummified the dead body of King Chephre.Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu)
30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedThe only completely preserved portrait of the king is a three-inch high ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of a later period at Abydos in 1903. All other reliefs and statues were found in fragments, and many buildings of Khufu are lost. Everything known about Khufu comes from inscriptions in his necropolis at Giza and later documents. For example, Khufu is the main character noted in the Westcar Papyrus from the 13th dynasty.Khafre's Pyramid
30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedKhafre's pyramid complex consists of a valley temple, the Sphinx temple, a causeway, a mortuary temple and the king's pyramid. The valley temple yielded several statues of Khafre. Several were found in a well in the floor of the temple by Mariette in 1860. Others were found during successive excavations by Sieglin (1909–10), Junker, Reisner,Menkaure Pyramid
30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedMenkaure's pyramid complex consists of a valley temple, a causeway, a mortuary temple, and the king's pyramid. The valley temple once contained several statues of Menkaure. During the 5th Dynasty, a smaller ante-temple was added on to the valley temple. The mortuary temple also yielded several statues of Menkaure.Great Sphinx
30 minsAdmission Ticket IncludedAlso there you will have a close-up look at The Sphinx - The legendary guardian that stands by the huge funeral complex with its lion body and the head of king Chephren.Memphis and Sakkara
1 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedThen continue your day tour to Memphis City that was the ancient capital of Egypt, where the colossal statue of Ramses II and the great Alabaster Sphinx are. This City Dates back to 3100 B.C.Saqqara (Sakkara) Pyramids
1 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedThen continue your day tour to Sakkara, located only 27 km southwest away from Cairo. Visit the Step Pyramid (Built for king Zoser), it is considered an important part of the process of the pyramid evolution, which were made from the simple mastaba to its widely known form.Alexandria
2 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeTour Finishes with drop off at Customer Hotel
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