Private tour to Cave Church, Garbage City and City of the Dead in Cairo

Private tour

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Sightseeing Lovers

Location: Egypt

Activity: Sightseeing

Languages spoken: English

Duration: 8 hrs

Difficulty: Easy

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Highlights

Cave Church of St. Simon
Garbage City in Cairo
The City of the Dead

All about the trip

Our guide will pick you up from your hotel to start your day with a visit to the famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is the largest and has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20 000. It is worth a visit if you are interesting to see something different in Egypt.

Then we will continue to the Garbage City in Cairo located in the neighborhood called Manshiyat Naser in the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People” because they have been sustaining themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew.

The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big-city dreams and land under their feet. Being very poor, and without a solid 401k plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling the city’s compostable waste products by feeding it to their pigs.

Today, Cairo’s Garbage People make ends meet by going door to door to pick up people’s trash for a nominal fee, which is then brought back to their Garbage City neighborhoods. There, they sort and recycle everything they could, using it for their own manufacturing.

Please note that you will be passing through the garbage place without getting off from the car as the place is almost full of garbage with a very bad smell that can cause diseases that`s why we created a passing-through trip because customer`s safety is our main concern.

Then we will reach the City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo

Meals: lunch.

What Wikipedia says about Garbage City

What is included in the price

Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Cairo
Transportation by a private air-conditioned vehicle
English-speaking Egyptologist tour guide
All the entrance fees to all the mentioned sites as per the itinerary
Lunch at a local restaurant
Bottled water during your trip
All taxes and service charge

What is not included in the price

Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
Tipping

Instructions

What to take with you?

A small bag or rucksack
Comfortable clothes and shoes
Personal ID or passport
Energy snacks
Pocket money
Sun protection, e.g. a hat or sun cream
Camera

Where do we meet and where will the trip end?

Meeting place:

We arrange hotel transfers in Cairo.
Please let us know the name of your hotel during the booking process.

Final destination:

Same as the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy - Benevolent

Cancellation more than 4 days prior to the starting date. Clients are automatically refunded the full booking price.
Cancellation within 48 to 96 hours prior to the starting date. Clients are entitled to a 50% refund of the booking price.
Cancellation less than 48 hours prior to the starting date. No refunds.

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