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Explore the best of Cairo on a day tour of the Egyptian Museum, Islamic Cairo, Coptic Cairo and Khan El Khalili bazaar. Add a Nile felucca ride or a private combo tour.
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, the big pink building that has held Cairo's antiquities since 1902, can overwhelm anyone who walks in without a plan. Your guide leads you through the galleries to the pieces worth your time and explains what you're looking at. Lunch is at a restaurant nearby before you head back to the hotel.
$90 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours
A day for anyone interested in Egypt's Christian history. Start at the Coptic Museum, which holds the largest collection of Coptic art in the world, then walk the lanes of Old Cairo to the Hanging Church and the churches around it. Next, drive up to Mokattam for the Cave Church of St. Simon, cut into the cliff above the Zabbaleen neighborhood, and finish with lunch at a local restaurant.
$130 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours
Start on the high ground of the Saladin Citadel, where the Mosque of Muhammad Ali looks out over the whole city. From there, drive down to Coptic Cairo to see the Hanging Church and the old churches inside the walls of the Babylon Fortress. After lunch at a local restaurant, the day ends at the Monastery of St. Simon in Mokattam, better known as the Cave Church.
$130 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat tells Egypt's story from the first farmers to the present day. Most people come for the Royal Mummies Hall, where the kings and queens carried here in the 2021 Pharaohs' Golden Parade now lie, Ramses II and Hatshepsut among them. Your guide covers both in about four hours, with hotel pickup.
$80 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
The Monastery of St. Simon sits at the top of Manshiyat Naser, the Mokattam neighborhood where Cairo's Zabbaleen collect and sort much of the city's rubbish. Its main church is carved into the cliff and seats around 20,000 people, and the rock faces around it are covered in biblical carvings. Your guide tells the community's story on the drive up through the neighborhood.
$60 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours
In Old Cairo, churches, a synagogue and a mosque stand within a few minutes' walk of each other. You'll visit the churches of Coptic Cairo, then the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, founded in 642 as the first mosque in Egypt and in Africa. After lunch at a local restaurant, the day ends at the Cave Church of St. Simon in Mokattam. The Coptic Museum or a sunset dinner facing the pyramids can be added for an extra charge.
$90 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours
Ibn Tulun, finished in 879, is the oldest mosque in Cairo still in its original form, with a vast courtyard and a minaret you climb by an outside spiral stair. From there it's a short drive to Sultan Hassan, a 14th-century Mamluk mosque and school of enormous scale, and Al-Rifai right beside it, where Egypt's last kings and the last Shah of Iran are buried.
$95 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours
Downtown Cairo was laid out in the 1860s on the model of Haussmann's Paris, and many of its belle époque buildings still line Talaat Harb and Qasr El Nil streets. Your guide walks you through the squares, old cafés and passages, then you cross the Nile to Gezira Island and ride up the 187-meter Cairo Tower for a view over the whole city.
$90 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
Al-Azhar Park was built on a hill of rubbish that had piled up over five centuries, and opened in 2005 as one of the largest green spaces in Cairo. Walk its gardens and fountains with views over the domes and minarets of Islamic Cairo and the Citadel. Go in the late afternoon if you can; the light on the old city is at its best near sunset.
$65 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
The Museum of Islamic Art at Bab al-Khalq holds one of the world's largest collections of Islamic art, with around 100,000 objects from Egypt, Persia, Syria, Turkey and Spain. Highlights include Mamluk glass mosque lamps, carved wooden doors and early Qur'an manuscripts. Your guide shapes the visit around what interests you.
$70 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours
Ride up the Cairo Tower on Gezira Island, 187 meters above the river, for a view across the city that reaches the pyramids on a clear day. Afterwards, lunch is at a restaurant on the Nile, where you can watch the feluccas go by.
$90 / person
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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours
Board a felucca, the Nile's traditional wooden sailboat, for a half-hour sail as the city lights come on. Back on land, dinner is at a riverside restaurant with a table by the water.
$100 / person
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