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2- Alexandria tours & El Alamein
About the City
City Location
is in the very north of Egypt over looking the Mediterranean
about 250 Kilo meter from Cairo (3 hours drive by car)
historically Alexandria was build by Alexander the Great in the year 333
BC and right now Alexandria is the second largest city after Cairo the
capital with a Mediterranean mode and atmosphere, Alexandria
site seeing is special with it’s Greco Roman style, mixed and
influenced by Pharaonic art & Religion unlike any other city in
Egypt, or else where in the world where you can find this unique
mixture.
No. of
Alexandria Tours: 2
Tours
Please note
that all timings stated in
Alexandria tours are the
average timings & they are totally flexible
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Alexandria
tours 1
Over day tour (1day)
starting from Cairo visiting the main sight seeing in
Alexandria the Greco Roman Museum, Pompey’s Pillar, the Roman Theater, the old location of the light house and the
newly opened library of Alexandria.
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Description
Day 01
Breakfast, meet your Egyptologist guide (7:00 AM) to
drive to Alexandria (3 hours drive
from Cairo
by A/C Van) to start your tour visiting the Greco Roman
Museum which contains 40,000 pieces of artifacts dating
from the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC with very special pieces
mixing Pharaonic and Greco Roman art & the beginning of
Christianity in Egypt with it's complete changes in all
aspects of art & life, visit Pompey’s Pillar a 25
meters long made of Aswan rose granite, lunch at local
restaurant. Continue your tour to The Catacombs of
Kom El Shuqqafa and the Roman theater built in the
1st century AD & uncovered in the late 1950, end your
tour with a visit to the newly opened
Library of Alexandria build in the same spot the
historical one was existing the library contains a beautiful
museum with very special pieces from the ancient and modern
history of Egypt, drive back to Cairo for overnight at your
hotel.
(5:00 PM)
Request this tour: Alexandria
tours 1
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Alexandria
tours 2
Over night tour (2 Days) visiting the main sight seeing in Alexandria
the Greco Roman Museum, Pompey’s Pillar, the Roman
Theater, the old location of the light house and the
newly opened library of Alexandria and visiting El
Alamein symmetries of the 2nd World war, located in the
western Desert about 105 km west of Alexandria, famous
as the scene of a device Allied victory over Axis powers
during World War Two.
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Description
Day 1 Breakfast
(7:00 AM) drive to Alexandria (3 hours drive from Cairo
by A/C Van) to start your tour visiting Greco Roman
Museum, which contains 40,000 pieces of artifacts
dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC with very
special pieces mixing Pharaonic and Greco Roman art
& the beginning of Christianity in Egypt with it's
complete changes in all aspects of art & life,
visit Pompey’s Pillar
a 25 meters long
made of Aswan rose granite, lunch at local restaurant,
Continue your tour to the Catacombs of Kom El
Shuqqafa and the Roman theater built in the 1st
century AD and uncovered in the late 1950, end your tour
with a visit to the newly opened
Library of Alexandria build in the same spot the
historical one was existing the library contains a
beautiful Museum with very special pieces from the
ancient and modern history of Egypt, drive to your hotel
for overnight in Alexandria. (3:00 PM)
Day 2
Breakfast meet your Egyptologist guide (9:00 AM) start your
tour in Alexandria visiting the
fort of Qaitbey over
looking the Mediterranean, the fort was built on the site of
the famous Pharos light house, it was built
in the 10th AD century using the remains of the old light
house stones after it was destroyed in very strong
earthquake, the fort have a beautiful Panorama
for the city, drive to El Alamein about 1.15 hour
in your A/C van,
famous as the scene of a device Allied victory over Axis
powers during World War Two
visit the War museum that contains good collection of
uniforms, memorabilia and pictorial material relating to the
battle of El Alamein, maps and explanations of
various phases in the Campaign, outside the museum
collection of tanks, artillery and hardware from the fields
of the battle, continue your tour visiting the
commonwealth war cemetery the cemeteries contain about
7000 tombstone for soldiers from UK, Australia, New Zealand,
France, Greece, South Africa and India, continue your tour
visiting the German and Italian War Memorials on a
bluff over looking the sea, continue to drive to Cairo for
overnight at your hotel. (5:00
PM)
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this tour: Alexandria tours 2
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