8-Hour Cave Church, Garbage City & the City of the Dead Tour In Cairo
Highlights
Cairo
cultural, historical, sightseeing
Private Tour
8 Hours
Easy
English, French
Description
Visit the Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo on this 8-day tour. First, see the Garbage City of Cairo from your car and hear the history of the city. Next, get sights of the Garbage People and know the reason for them being called so. Finally, end your tour with an exploration of the City of the Dead.
Itinerary
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A Day In The Garbage City of Cairo
- Pick up from your hotel at 10:00 A.M. and start the tour. First, visit The Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo. There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon, the Tanner, is the largest and has an amphitheatre with a seating capacity of 20,000. It is worth a visit if you are interested to see something different in Egypt.
- Then, pass by the Garbage City in Cairo, located in a local neighbourhood called Manshiyat Naser or “Garbage City in Cairo” (a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo). Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People” because they sustain themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew. The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big-city dreams and land under their feet. But, being very poor and without a solid plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling the city’s compostable waste products by feeding them to their pigs. Today, Cairo’s Garbage People make ends meet by going door to door to pick up people’s trash for a nominal fee, which is then brought back to their Garbage City neighbourhoods.
- See the City of the Dead, an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo and have lunch before the tour.
What's Included
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Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price
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| 1 to 4 | /person |
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| 1 to 4 | /person |
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This is a private tour |
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