Mosques of Cairo
Mosques of Cairo
Cairo
5 Days / 4 Nights
- Rate is quoted in U.S.D Per person in half twin room.
- Rate is applicable for groups of minimum 10 persons.
- Accommodation based on standard rooms at four stars hotel including buffet breakfast.
- Inclusive of service charges & taxes
- Rate is not valid during the peak periods ( ie: Christmas and Easter days... etc)
- Rate is only indicative; exact rates are to be advised upon actual reservation.
Package Includes
- Meet and assist through formalities in Cairo airport.
- Arrival and departure transfers by a/c deluxe coaches.
- Accommodation for four nights at 4 stars hotel on bed and breakfast basis.
- Entrance fees of all sightseeing as stated in the itinerary.
- Guiding throughout the tour.
- Rate is valid until the end of April 2013.
Package Exclusions
- Entry Visa Cost.
- International flights.
- Extra meals or beverages.
- Fees for photograph or video inside the sights.
- Items & expenditure of personal nature.
- Early check in / late check out (subject to availability).
- Fees of entering inside the Pyramids / Mummy Room in the Egyptian Museum
- Travel Insurance.
- Tipping and gratuities.
- Any other service not specified in the itinerary
Day (01) - Cairo
Arrive Cairo international airport, upon arrival you will be met by Kimidar Tours representative and transferred to your chosen hotel.
Day (02) - Cairo
This morning explore one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Giza, and the nearby mysterious Sphinx carved from a single block of limestone. Continue to visit the fabulous Egyptian Museum, home to priceless antiquities; including statues, reliefs, sarcophagi, and the King Tutankhamun’s treasures discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor by Howard Carter in 1922.
Day (03) - Cairo
Visit the Islamic Art Museum is truly a wonderful reservoir of Islamic antiquities. It has a vast supplement of about 10200 artefacts that one cannot explore in a single day. The museum displays arts from the different Islamic eras that Egypt passed through including the Fatimid, Turkish, Ayyoubid Period and Persian periods. Continue to explore the medieval Islamic quarter, the Citadel built in 1176 by Salah El Din to defend Cairo from the crusaders, Mohamed Ali Mosque known as the Alabaster Mosque, then we continue our visit to Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa (school), it is considered stylistically the most compact and unified. It is an example of a Mamluk architecture was built in 1356 - 1363.
Day (04) - Cairo
Visit Amr Ibn El As mosque the first and oldest mosque ever built on the land of Egypt. Erected in 642 AD (21 AH) by Amr Ibn al'As, the commander of the Muslim army that conquered Egypt, the mosque is also known as Taj al-Jawamie. The mosque is said to have been built on the site of Amr Ibn El-As's tent at Fustat, is the oldest existing mosque, not just in Cairo, but the entire African Continent. Continue to visit the Al-Azhar Mosque, established in 972 (361 H) in a porticoes style shortly after the founding of Cairo. Located in the centre of an area teaming with the most beautiful Islamic monuments from the 10th century, it was called "Al-Azhar" after Fatma Al-Zahraa, daughter of the Prophet Mohamed. We follow our visit to El Hussein Mosque Inside its mausoleum is the head of Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. Hussein was murdered in Iraq in 680 AD in the power struggle that divided Islam into two branches: Shia and Sunni. We end our visit with a truly amazing atmosphere, a place where you can bargain the Khan El Khalili bazaar once known as the Turkish bazaar.
Day (05) - Cairo
Kimidar Tours representative will escort you to Cairo international airport for your onward flight home.
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