SOFT TRIP | Cairo - St. Catherine 04 days
SOFT TRIP | Cairo - St. Catherine 04 days
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DAY 01: Arrival at Cairo airport, meet and assist through formalities transfer to the hotel for overnight.
DAY 02: Visit the Egyptian Museum, famous for its antiquities from Egypt's Pharaonic period, dates back some centuries, and includes the fabulous treasures of king Tut Ankh-Amon. Head to the Giza to visit the Pyramids then go to the Solar Boat Museum where a dismantled river barge of King Cheops was found, drive back to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
The Egyptian Museum, owes its existence to the Egyptian Antiquities Service, established by the Egyptian government in 1835 to limit the looting of Egypt's priceless artifacts. The museum opened in 1858 with a collection assembled by Auguste Mariette, the French archaeologist retained by Ismail Pasha. It was originally housed in an annex of the palace of Ismail Pasha in Giza, the museum moved to its present location in 1900.
Pyramids and Sphinx, There are no more famous ancient sites within Egypt, or for that matter elsewhere in the world, than the Great Pyramids at Giza. They are, without question, the icon most associated with the Egypt. They have been both the main destination for tourists and a source of imaginative thought to the world for over three thousand years.
Solar Boat, The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops), the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt It is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It measures 43.6 m (143 2) long and 5.9 m (19.5 ft) wide
DAY 03: Drive from Suez to St. Catherine along the Gulf of Suez and arrive to the lush green Oasis of Wadi Faran (Biblical Raphidim) arrive in the afternoon to St. Catherine area, dinner and over night.
DAY 04: Early morning, walk up to Mount Sinai 2285 above sea level, attain the summit named after Moses where God delivered the Ten Commandments, time on top to take in and photograph the imposing & spectacular view of the sun coming up over the hills of Sinai. Descent through the stairway carved into the mountain by St. Catherine monks. Breakfast at the hotel, and then visit to the famed 6th century Monastery named after St. Catherine, the martyr of Alexandria. Proceed to Taba or Newibaa for final departure.
