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DAY TRIP TO GIZA CITY |
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Giza
City
is the third largest city in
Egypt.
Being located on the west bank of the
Nile
river, some 20 km southwest of central
Cairo.Giza
is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau: the site of some
of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world,
including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred
structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and
a number of other large pyramids and temples. |
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DAY TRIP TO GIZA CITY
EGYPTIAN
MUSEUM , CITADEL & OLD CAIRO |
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The
Egyptian Museum of Antiquities contains many important
pieces of ancient Egyptian history. It houses the world’s largest
collection of Pharaonic antiquities, and many treasures of King
Tutankhamen.The museum's Royal Mummy Room, containing 27 royal
mummies
from pharaonic times, was closed on the orders of President
Anwar Sadat in 1981. It was reopened, with a slightly curtailed
display of
New Kingdom kings and queens in 1985. Today there are about 9
mummies displayed. One of them is the newly discovered mummy of
Queen Hatshepsut .
Old Cairo
(Egyptian Arabic: Masr el Adīma) is a part of Cairo that contains the
remnants of those cities which were capitals before Cairo, such as
Fustat, as well as some other elements from the city's varied history.
For example, it encompasses Coptic Cairo and its many old churches and
ruins of Roman fortifications. Modern tourists visit locations such as
the Coptic Museum, the Babylon Fortress, the Hanging Church and other
Coptic churches, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Mosque of Amr ibn
al-'As. Fort Babylon is a Roman fortress around which many of the
Egyptian Christians' oldest churches were built. |
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DAY TRIP TO VISIT SOUND
& LIGHT SHOW |
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sound
and light show is a form of nighttime entertainment that is
usually presented in an outdoor venue of historic significance.
Special lighting effects are projected onto the façade of a building
or ruin and synchronized with recorded or live narration and music to
dramatize the history of the place. The invention of the concept is
credited to Paul Robert-Houdin, who was the curator of the Château de
Chambord in France, which hosted the world's first son et lumière in
1952. Another was established in the early 1960s at the site of the
Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. |
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DAY TRIP TO VISIT
ALEXANDRIA |
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The
Royal Library of Alexandria in Alexandria,
Egypt,
was once the largest
library
in the world. It is generally thought to have been founded at the
beginning of the 3rd century BC, during the reign of
Ptolemy II of Egypt. It was likely created after his father had
built what would become the first part of the Library complex, the
temple of the
Muses — the
Museion,
Greek Μουσείον (from which the
modern English word
museum is derived). "Pompey's Pillar" is one of the best-known
ancient monuments still standing in Alexandria today. It is
located on Alexandria's ancient
acropolis — a modest hill located adjacent to the city's Arab
cemetery — and was originally part of a temple colonnade.
Including its
pedestal, it is 30 m (99 ft) high; the shaft is of polished red
granite, 2.7 meters in diameter at the base, tapering to 2.4 meters at
the top. The shaft is 88 feet high made out of a single piece of
granite. This would be 132
cubic meters or approximately 396 tons.[ The
Royal Palaces, filling the northeast angle of the town and occupying
the promontory of Lochias, which shut in the Great Harbour on the
east. Lochias (the modern Pharillon) has almost entirely disappeared
into the sea, together with the palaces, the "Private Port," and the
island of Antirrhodus. There has been a land subsidence here, as
throughout the northeast coast of Africa. |
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DAY TRIP TO VISIT FAYOUM
OASIS |
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The Fayoum
Oasis is a depression or basin in the desert immediately to
the west of the Nile south of
Cairo
.In the Faiyum oasis is Birket Qarun (Arabic for Lake of Qarun), which
abounds in fish, notably bulti, of which considerable quantities are
sent to Cairo. In ancient times this lake was much larger, and the
ancient Greeks and Romans called it Lake Moeris. |
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