CAIRO PYRAMIDS, SAQQARA & MEMPHIS

Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo to visit the Cairo Pyramids, which were built over three generations by Khufu, his second reigning son, Khafre, and Menkaure. Then proceed to the Great Sphinx, Chephren had the happy idea of shipping it into a figure- lion’s body, god’s face, though perhaps Chephren’s own, and wearing the royal headdress with a uraeus. Move to visit Saqqara, there can few archaeological sites in the world, let alone Egypt, to compare with Saqqara.

Then have your lunch at a local restaurant after that transfer to Memphis,( Egyptian Mennefer) was the royal residence and capital of Egypt during the early dynastic period and the Old Kingdom and a city of major importance throughout the rest of its history, the ruins of the ancient capital of Memphis today lie around the modern village of Mit Rahina. Later you will drive back to your hotel in Cairo.