Day trip to El Rifai, Sultan Hassan Mosque, and Giza Pyramids From Hurghada

Our business will provide transportation to Hurghada Airport from Hurghada, where your tour begins.  You will be taken to the Giza Pyramids after landing at Cairo Airport.

Khufu was the first pyramid. King Khufu of the Fourth Dynasty commissioned construction of this pyramid during the very zenith of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, namely in 2590 BC; construction itself lasted barely some thirty years. The lengthy processes towards building Khufu's burial complex were initiated with the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, the very first stone monument of humanity, credited to King Djoser and architect Imhotep.

Khafre, the second pyramid. The second pyramid was built on the Giza plateau during the reign of Khafre, the son of Khufu, between 2518 and 2492 BC. Though 3 m smaller than his father's, it seems to surpass it. After all, its construction site upon a rocky hillock in the plateau lifts its summit to even greater altitude than his father's bigger neighbor.

Considered the last giant pyramid, as it was over 100 m high, Khafre's pyramid originally measured 143.87 m with a square base measuring 215.16 m on each side and an inclination of 53°.

You will be transported to Islamic Egypt following a tour of the pyramids. For its construction, Khushyar Hanem commissioned the engineer Hussein Pasha Fahmy to build a large mosque in the area. When she died in 1885, construction halted for 25 years until Khedive Abbas Hilmi II ordered construction to resume, and it was inaugurated in 1912.

We next proceed to Sultan Hassan Mosque. The biggest of the mosque's four perpendicular iwans facing one another is the eastern one, which serves as the entryway to the dome.  The length of the passageway that leads to the dome is 28 meters.

Observers may enjoy the mosque's vastness from any perspective because it was built in the Persian mosque style.  The gypsum band in the eastern iwan, which has phrases in Kufic script based on plant leaves, is one of the few inscriptions on the walls.

After lunch and this special excursion, it's time to return to Hurghada.