camel ride with a trusted camel driver

Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx with a private tour guide

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Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx with a private tour guide

Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx with a private tour guide
Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx with a private tour guide can assure your safety, because he/she informs the local authority of your program, he/she protects you from the harassment you may encounter on the Giza plateau.

camel ride with a trusted camel driverVisiting the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx (UNESCO world heritage) is essential when visiting Cairo, your private English speaking guide will pick you up at your hotel with a convenient car (comfortable and air-conditioned) & driver, we arrive on the Giza plateau, then we stop in front of the great pyramid of Cheops “137m height”, one of old seven wonders of the world, your Egyptologist tour guide will make the explanation, after that.. there is a free time to take memorial pictures, and then the private guide will take you to visit the small pyramid of the mother of the pharaoh Khéops, to visit the Mastabas of the nobles, (penetrating in one of the three pyramids is optional with entrance tickets).
Your private tour guide proposes you the visit of the wooden solar boat that was discovered in 1954, if you are interested in this visit (optional with entrance tickets), he/she accompanies you and explains it to you.
And then, the private guide proposes you a camel ride with a trusted camel driver (optional with reasonable price).

We arrive at the panorama of the three pyramids of Cheops, Khephren, and Mykérinos where you can take magnificent pictures of the pyramids of Giza and then we go down with our driver to visit the Sphinx where they prepare for the light and sound show in the evening.
camel ride with a trusted camel driver

Your private tour guide organizes well the visit of the three pyramids and the sphinx to allow you to make the most of your time in safety, avoid the harassment which makes your visit more pleasant.

The forgotten desert of Faiyum

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The forgotten desert of Faiyum

The forgotten desert of FaiyumThe forgotten desert of Faiyum is located north of Lake Moeris (Birket Qarun), 26 km north of Faiyoum, 80 Km southwest of Cairo, and when I say “the forgotten desert”, I mean that few people know about it, although there was an ancient Greco-Roman city founded by Ptolemy II, 3rd century BC called “Dimeh al siba”.Dimeh al siba

The site is, 2.05 kilometers beyond the edge of the water, there is an unfinished temple in the southern part of the island covers about 9000 square meters, The entire territory is surrounded by brick walls, The remains of the Temple walls and the interior floors of the Temple are made of sandstone blocks, There is a paved road with limestone blocks, begins from the southern entrance of the Temple Complex and extends towards Lake Qarun. Its length is 400 meters and its width is about 8 meters, The magnificent ruins will impress you and give freedom to your imaginations to guess how life was in this lakeside place that gives evidence of inhabitancy dates back to the Neolithic era.

This trip asks us many questions:

  • Is that Ptolemy II provided land by reducing the size of the lake for Macedonian soldiers and their families?
  • Was the city used as a port?
    As it is called “soknopaiou nesos” which means the island of Sobek, the crocodile god,
  • Was the city located on an island?
  • Did the city become a border post in the Roman period?

Qasr El SaghaQasr El SaghaThen, if we continue in the desert 8 km north of Qarun Lake, we will find ”Qasr elsagha”, an unfinished limestone construction discovered by Schweinfurth composed of 7 shrines dating back to the Pharaonic period. Also asks us a few questions, who built it? Was it dedicated to which divinity? Which dynasty? Which kingdom?

The Petrified Forest, The fossilized trees… on their turn asks us a question, what was the Faiyum before?