Cairo Private Day Tour (Mummies Museum – Citadel – Coptic Cairo)

Our tour guide will accompany you to The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization which houses the Royal Mummies of ancient Egyptians Kings who Ruled in ancient Egypt, the Museum also houses some artifacts from different ages. Then you will move to the Citadel of Salah Al-Din is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo. It was the seat of government in Egypt and the residence of its rulers for nearly 700 years from the 13th to the 19th centuries. Its location on a promontory of the Mokattam hills near the center of Cairo commands a strategic position overlooking the city, then go to Coptic Cairo also called old Cairo where you will see the remains of the Roman fortress of Babylon (2nd century A.D), and visit the hanging church of Virgin Mary built over the fortress tower, the church of Abu Serga (St. Sergio) with Holy Crypt where the Holy Family stayed for three months and the Synagogue of Ben Ezra, believed to be the place where Baby Moses was found by the Pharaoh’s wife.