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Cairo: Tour of Cave Church, Garbage City & City of the Dead
Visit the St. Simon cave church, pass by the Manshiyat Nasser settlement or Garbage City, and see the City of the Dead at the foot of the Mokattam on a private tour with an Egyptologist guide in Cairo.
Highlights
- Discover the professionalism of the magnificent churches of Coptic Cairo
- Visit Cave Church, or the Monastery of St Simon, on a private tour
- Explore the Church of Saint Barbara, and the Hanging Church
- Discover most important Christian sites Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church
- Discover fascinating Cairo city ‘'Garbage city'’
Description
At 10:00 am, a guide from Sun Pyramids Tours will pick you up from your hotel to begin your day tour of The Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The largest monastery, St. Simon the Tanner, features an amphitheatre that can accommodate 20,000 people. It is worth a visit if you are interesting to see something different in Egypt. Then passing by the Garbage City in Cairo, also known as Manshiyat Naser or simply 'Garbage City in Cairo,' which is situated in a very local neighborhood to the southeast of Cairo. Its residents are fondly referred to as 'Garbage People' because they have supported themselves for many years by serving 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. Note : You will be Passing Through Garbage Place Without getting Off from the Car as the Place is almost Full of Garbage with 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 passing with The City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern CairoIncludes
Round trip transfer from / to your destination in private air-conditioned vehicle . Egyptologist tour guide with the language you speak. 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 & service chargeEasy cancellation
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