Egypt Explorer - 04 Days/03 Nights


 

 

 

 

Day1-Begin Tour | Arrive Cairo | Optional Dinner On A Cruising Restaurant With Live Entertainment
Welcome to your Merair Travel & Tours Egyptian Getaway tour! Your Merair Travel & Tours representative greets you at the 'meeting point' at the exit after immigration and customs and transfers you comfortably to your hotel (check in after 1400 hrs). The rest of the afternoon is at leisure. In the evening, you have an option to enjoy a dinner on a Cruising restaurant. The culinary delight will tempt you with Oriental specialties as you glide by the Cairo cityscape. Fine dinning is accompanied by live entertainment, which includes Egyptian music, belly dancing and a folk show. (D)

Day2-Onto Alexandria | City tour of Alexandria
This morning, drive to Alexandria and check in to your hotel. Later, embark on a full day excursion to Alexandria. See the Qaitbay Fortress, Library, National Museum which houses the pieces recovered in 1995 at the Light-house site. Next, visit the Montazah Palace. Built in a fantastic Turkish-Florentine style in the 19th century, the palace boasts of acres of well planned gardens & overlooks a beautiful beach. (B, D)
Day3-Onto Cairo | Visit To The Pyramids And The Sphinx | Egyptian Museum | Papyrus Institute | Perfume Factory | Jewellery Shop
This morning, drive back to Cairo. On arrival visit the Great Pyramids of Giza; Cheops - one of the oldest and largest pyramid on the Giza plateau, Chephren and Mykerinos, and the defending Sphinx - one of the most majestic and enduring monuments of Egypt. Next, visit the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, which houses one of the world's greatest collections of Egyptian artifacts. It boasts of more than 136,000 artifacts from over five thousand years of Egyptian history. Proceed on, to visit the Papyrus Institute. See the processes and efforts it took to make this ancient form of paper. Later, visit the Perfume Factory where a demonstration in the art of perfume making awaits you. The next stop is at the Jewellery Shop, where you can browse exquisite ornaments and shop to your heart's content. (B, D)

Day4-Homeward Bound | Khan El Khalili Market | Sound And Light Show
After check-out this afternoon, visit the Khan El Khalili Market - Cairo's most important shopping area for souvenirs and all types of typical Egyptian art ifacts. End the day, with a dazzling Sound and Light Show at the Giza Pyramids. This spectacular show uses innovative techniques to narrate the history of ancient Egypt with magnificent sound and light effects against the Pyramids as a backdrop. Good times need never end! As you proceed to the airport for your flight back home, relive the high points of your Merair Travel & Tours Egyptian Getaway tour. We are confident you will join us again, sometime soon…(B either at the hotel or on-board the flight