Private Guided Half-Day Tour of the Islamic and Giza Pyramids

You will be taken in a private, air-conditioned car to the Pyramids of Giza, where your tour will start.  When you get there, your guide will be there to tell you about Egyptian religion, tombs, and the most well-known Fifth and Sixth Dynasty monarchs. One day, they watched the moon crack and wane. They also watched the floodwaters flood their fields every year.

As the floodwaters receded, they noticed that the higher peaks of land, emerging from the water, would begin to grow new growth. In the ancient Egyptian mind, these mounds of land represented new life. A mound of earth was seen as the source of new life emerging from the water. When they worshipped in their temples, they sometimes incorporated a mound of earth as a representation of the beginning of life. In the beginning, this was a pile of sand or dirt, but eventually it started to grow into a single mass of pilgrims.

Take a break, eat lunch, and study Egyptian food to have a deeper understanding of their culture after seeing the pyramids and the Sphinx..  You will next be shown Cairo's two most well-known Islamic sites.  You will go to the Al-Rifai Mosque first.

The mosque consists of a rectangular area of approximately 6,500 square meters, of which more than a thousand square meters are allocated for prayer, and the remainder for burials and annexes. The mosque is topped by two minarets erected on circular bases. In the middle of the western side is the royal entrance, distinguished by stone columns with decorated marble bases. The seaward side of the mosque has six doors, four of which lead to the burial chambers of the princes and kings of the Alawite dynasty. The first of these chambers were the tombs of the sons of Khedive Ismail.

Next, we'll head to Sultan Hassan. The mosque is 38 meters high, 68 meters wide, and 150 meters long. It is said that 750,000 gold dinars were spent on its construction, and Abdullah Muhammad Al-Naqi supervised its construction. The mosque site had a number of Mamluk houses, which Sultan Hassan bought to build the mosque. After his death, the construction of the facility was completed by Prince Bashir Al-Jamdar. Finally you will return to your accommodation or to the airport.