Full Day Tour Pyramids, Memphis & The Grand Egyptian Museum
4
Details
After breakfast, meet your guide and proceed for a full-day tour of the Pyramids, Memphis & the Grand Egyptian Museum.
This morning meet your Egyptologist and transfer to the Giza plateau where you begin your day's sightseeing at the foot of the inscrutable Sphinx, the giant man/beast that has puzzled men for generations. Walk up the modest incline to the top of the Giza Plateau and marvel at the sight of the three Great Pyramids of Giza \/ Cheops (Khufu), Chephren (Khafre), and Mykerinos (Menkaure). One can only imagine the impact these massive structures would have had on ancient travelers seeing them for the first time!
After lunch, you will visit Memphis, the capital city founded by Menes, which lies southeast of its cemetery at Saqqara. Statues and architectural fragments have been collected in the sculpture garden, which occupies the southeastern part of the Ptah Temple complex, the patron god of Memphis.
End your day's explorations at Saqqara, touring the first stone structure ever built, King Zoser's famous Step Pyramid created a century before the Great Pyramids! The Grand Egyptian Museum displays, conserves, and studies over 50,000 artifacts across 7,000 years. The museum embraces the diversity of Egyptian history and culture to connect all visitors to creativity, knowledge, ideas, and to one another. By integrating entertainment, culture, learning, and lifestyle, the Grand Egyptian Museum site incorporates a deep sense of history in an inclusive setting for all visitors seeking to celebrate, discover, and be part of Egypt's past and future.
Activity Info
Schedule
Start Time
Apr 11
Location
Cairo, Egypt