Experience these full-day Cairo tours to the pyramids of Giza, Memphis' necropolis, and Sakkara's necropolis, as well as the Step Pyramid of Djoser. Our Cairo day tours from the airport take you to Egypt's most beautiful ancient sites. Visit the Red Pyramid in Dahshur and explore the city of Memphis.
Price : 70.00 $
Full Day Tour
Cairo
Egypt
Full-Day Tour to Giza Pyramids Memphis and Sakkara
Instead of staying at the airport without doing anything, use your time and reserve with us a day tour from Cairo airport through our Egypt Day Tours including the day tour to Giza Pyramids. Our Cairo day tours from Airport take you to the most fascinating ancient sites of Egypt. It lets you discover those gigantic structures which remained the tallest buildings for more than 4500 years.
Cairo layover
Explore Memphis City, Memphis is an ancient Egyptian city, which UNESCO placed on the list of world heritage sites, it was the first Capital of Egypt. Explore the sacred area in Saqqara, and visit the first Pyramid in history built completely of stone, Djoser's Step Pyramid which was built by Imhotep in Saqqara.
When you sign up for one of our Egypt excursions, see the majority of Egypt.
Your tour leader from Cairo top tours will meet you at the airport, and then you will join your tour guide to begin your Cairo Stopover Transit Tour.
After about one hour of driving, you will arrive at the world-known Giza Necropolis to see the Great Pyramid of one of the most powerful kings of ancient Egypt, King Cheops, the pyramid was built during his reign in the old kingdom of Egypt history (2700-2200 B.C).
Drive to the second pyramid of Chephren and get a full view of the insignificantly smaller pyramid that still retains part of the outer casing material at the top, then third pyramid here, or the smallest one was built for king Mycerinus who was the son of Chephren and belong to the same ruling family.
you will also visit the Great Sphinx. and the Valley Temple where the mummification process of king Chephren, owner of the Sphinx took place. Sphinx is a masterpiece of art, unique in size, one of the largest sculptures in the world that was carved from the bedrock, as it reached 73 meters in length and 20 meters in height.
Then you will be transferred to Saqqara to see the step pyramid Complex which is considered to be the first building in the whole world entirely made out of stone for King Djoser of the third dynasty of the old kingdom to receive more explanation from your guide about how the pyramids were built.
Continue your Cairo layover as your tour guide will give you the choice if you want to enter the pyramid of Teti, it might be a little claustrophobic, but it offers the visitors a very colorful interior if we compare to all the other pyramids that were built during the same epoch. You will also visit one of the tombs of the nobles in Saqqara, the tomb of Kagemni who was the husband of one of King Teti's daughters, inside the tomb, you will see a variety of daily life scenes from ancient Egypt like digging the agricultural land, harvesting, fishing, fowling and animal sacrificing, painted in brilliant colors on the walls and corridors of the tomb.
We will stop to enjoy your delicious lunch in a local restaurant. then, you will resume visiting the city of Memphis to see the open-air museum where the ancient capital of the first world-empire used to be, to see the alabaster sphinx, which is the second-largest among all the sphinxes in Egypt, and the tremendous broken statue of Ramses II.
At the end of your interesting Cairo Stopover Tour, your Egyptologist will take you back to Cairo International Airport.
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