Oriental Tours Egypt manages many day trips to various historical sites and offers luxurious services with one of our professional tour guides to make your trip very special and memorable. Oriental Tours Egypt provides a wide range of Cairo sightseeing in one day. We offer a Day Tour to Pyramids of Giza, the Great ...
Oriental Tours Egypt manages many day trips to various historical sites and offers luxurious services with one of our professional tour guides to make your trip very special and memorable. Oriental Tours Egypt provides a wide range of Cairo sightseeing in one day. We offer a Day Tour to Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx, the Saqqara Step Pyramid, and Memphis, the first capital of ancient Egypt to witness the greatest ancient sites near Cairo in one day. A great day Tour to Pyramids of Giza and the most famous pyramids in Egypt.
In the morning, one of Oriental Tour’s representatives will meet you at your hotel and drive you to the Pyramids of Giza. Upon your arrival, we will begin your guided tour by visiting Giza to the world’s famous pyramids and sphinx. In that magical place, you will be able to see the great pyramid Khufu or Cheops, one of the most magnificent world’s seven wonders. You would also see the pyramid of Khafre or Chephren and the pyramid of Menkaure or Mycerinos. Afterwards, you would take your time with mythical creature with body of lion and head of a human the great sphinx.
Saqqara is a very rich archaeological necropolis where you will see the Funeral Complex of King Djoser including his Step-Pyramid; the oldest pyramid in Egypt. At Saqqara you will also see one or more (depending on time) of the Nobles' tombs. It shows the beauty and excellence of the ancient Egyptian art on their walls and gives an insight into the daily life of the Pharaonic period. The walls of these tombs are covered by beautiful scenes in colored high relief of the daily life of ancient Egyptians.
The last thing you will see in Saqqara is the Pyramid of King Teti (6th Dynasty, 23rd c. B.C). It's a small pyramid of limestone in a very bad condition as it looks like a shapeless mound of rubble. Despite the fact that the pyramid itself looks in bad shape and not very attractive to go into but when you go inside it you will be surprised by its marvelous decorations. The inner chamber's walls are covered by a beautiful hieroglyphic inscription written in vertical columns, these are the famous religious texts known as the Pyramids Texts.
In the last step of your tour. You would explore the open-air museum built on the ruins of the ancient City of Memphis, the oldest capital of ancient Egypt (3100 B.C). There, you will see a big collection of antiques especially the colossal of King Ramses II, carved of one block of limestone weighing about 80 tons and measuring about 12 m high. You will explore the famous Alabaster Sphinx of Memphis, in addition to many other monuments.
