🏨 Unusual Tour To Garbage & City of the Dead, St Simone or Cave church & lunch Activity

Unusual Tour To Garbage & City of the Dead, St Simone or Cave church & lunch

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Departs: Cairo, Cairo

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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Overview

In this tour you will explore an area known as "Garbage City, " which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam Hill on the outskirts of Cairo, and inhabited by the Coptic Christians, Within the Garbage City seven churches and chapels are hidden within a series of caves. While walking the chaotic streets of Garbage City, you will st Simone or the cave church,enjoy the beautiful sculptures made very recently and describes the holy Family journey to Egypt, & then you will explore the City of the Dead, where the deceased take up residency among the living.

What's Included

admission fees or Entry fees

Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Cairo or Giza

Lunch koshary or Falafel sanawiches & bottled water

private Air conditioning car

professional Egyptologist guide

What's Not Included

Gratuities

Traveler Information

ADULT: Age: 15 - 80

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Cairo

pick you up from or drop you off to your hotel in Giza or Cairo

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

The village is notable for having nearly every space of it covered in garbage, including the streets and rooftops of the settlement. an area known as "Garbage City, " which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam Hill on the outskirts of Cairo, and inhabited by the Coptic Christians, a community of garbage collectors who make their living collecting and recycling 17, 000 tons of garbage produced by Cairo's 20 million residents.
These mountains of garbage are the result of the Cairo Metropolitan Area having never established an efficient garbage collecting system.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cave Church

One of the best religious and historical places you may visit and enjoy the beautiful sculptures made very recently and describes the holy Family journey to Egypt and the blessings given to it. Cut in Mokkatam mountain on the edges of old Islamic Cairo city.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

City of the Dead (Northern Cemetery)

the City of the Dead, where the deceased take up residency among the living. It is a Muslim Cemetery with multiple tombs. A fair number of these tombs are occupied by families who either wish to stay near their deceased relatives or have squatted there in order to escape poverty.Cairo's huge necropolis is a sacred place for Egyptians. Also known as the City of the Dead, it contains tombs that date back to the time of the Mamluks, who ruled Egypt for over 250 years before the Ottoman conquest in 1517, as well as the shrines, mosques and mausoleums of early Islamic leaders such as Imam al-Shafi

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

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