Day Tour to Alexandria from Cairo by car

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Icon representing duration of the tour Duration 12 Hours
Icon representing tour location Destinations Alexandria
Icon indicating availability status Tour Availability Everyday
Icon indicating pickup location Pickup & Drop Off Your Hotel
Icon representing tour type Tour Type Private Tour

Enjoy Cairo To Alexandria Day Trip, Visiting rock-cut Roman catacombs, the ruins of a Roman temple complex, and Qaitbey Citadel. Visit the old Bibleotheca Alexandrina and enjoy fresh seafood by the Mediterranean.

Tour Highlights

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
Alexandria Library
Qaitbay Citadel

Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Itinerary

Alexandria is a famous city which was built by Alexander the Great. The city is located beside the Mediterranean Sea. It has a rich historical heritage since ancient Egyptian times. The city connected between the Egyptian civilization and Greco Roman civilization. Start your lovely day by meeting your guide at your hotel, take your high way from Cairo (about 3 hours' drive each way), arrive in the famous city then you will start exploring the city with your tour guide who will explain for you the old history of Alexandria. Your tour guide will talk with your about old Alexandria and the lighthouse of Alexandria, you will visit Roman catacombs of Kom ash-Shuqqafa, consisting of 3 levels for burial rooms which was discovered by donkey in 1901. Head to the Pompey Pillar, largest pillar in Egypt, listen to many stories about it with qualified Egyptologist tour guide. Then drive to fortress for Qaitbay locating beside the sea. Finally you will explore by yourself the famous library (new Alexandria library) which has the fourth rank among the libraries all over the world. Take your lunch at a good quality seafood restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean, Then you will go back directly to your hotel in Cairo.

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Tour Inclusions

  • Pick up services from hotel in Cairo & return
  • Entrance fees to the mentioned historical place
  • Transfer by a private air-conditioned vehicle
  • Private English-speaking Egyptologist guide
  • Lunch during your tour
  • All taxes & service charge
  • Bottled water during your trip

Tour Exclusions

  • Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
  • Tipping