3- Cleopatra's Tour

Highlight (3 Nights Cairo - 1 Night/ 2 Nights - 3 Days Alexandria Includes Visits to Rosetta Snd El Alamin)

Day (1):

Meet and Assist at cairo airport(please tell us the detials of your arrival flight) then transefer by a/c  van,car to your hotel to check in your hotel.

Day(2)

Start your tour to visit:

• The Egyptian museam.

• Pyramids at Giza.

• Sphinx.

Optional at night (sound and light show) or (dinner cruise)
Check in your hotel at Cairo .
 

Day(3):

Transfer at early morning to Alexandria to check in your  4 stars hotel.

Then start to visit

• The catacomb.

• Pompey's pillar or roman theater an the birds's palace.

• New library.

• Montazh palace.

At Afternoon spend all your free time on the beautiful beaches there and enjoying the wonderful sea-food.
 
At night go to spend some free time or spend some time in one of the coffee shops..
 
Spend the night there and back to your hotel overnight at Alexandria.
 

Day (4) Alexandria - Rosetta:

Check out and take the van and drive 65 km east of Alexandria about 45 minutes, to Rosetta city which famous by Rosetta stone which was found its name back to the Coptic age as the town was known as Rashit, later converted to Rashid. In later times, the town came to known by its present name of Rosetta (rosy) in Latin  .

Today 22 remarkable Ottoman houses still stand along with 12 mosques, two mills and a fort from the Mamluke period. In 1951 the Egyptian Antiquities Department purchased all these monuments.

There you will visit:

1- AL-AMASYALI HOUSE: Also known as Beit Hasiba Ghazal, this Ottoman building dates from 1808. as  during the ottoman or Mamulks times many houses and bathhouses ordered to be built with unique designs.

2- AZOUZ BATHHOUSE: it was built in the 17th century and bears the name of its last owner. It is the only public bath remaining from the Mamluke and Ottoman periods.

3- THE RUINS OF ZAGHLOUL MOSQUE: Constructed with 244 columns of granite and marble and 200 small domes it was built in 1545 by Zaghloul Haroun and was once a centre of Islamic studies, second in fame only to Al-Azhar.

4- QAITBEY CITADEL: Located seven kilometers from Rosetta, the citadel was built in 1482 by Abul-Nasr Qaitbey shortly after he completed the fort bearing his name in Alexandria.

5- The ABU SHAHIN MILL: As was common with large domestic establishments a mill was attached to the house. Depending on the wealth of the householders, the mill used to run by horses or manpower. Abu Shahin Mill was built during the second half of the 18th century to grind wheat and rice, both products Rosetta has long been famous for.

6- THE CONFLUENCE OF THE NILE: Rosetta enjoys marvelous scenery where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. Sea waves break on the Nile water without merging with it.
 
then have a free time in the city's streets to see the traditional craft, the weaving of palm fronds into baskets, has grown out of this industry as this city Known as "the city of a million palms", the palm plantations through which you pass to reach the city offer a richy in this hand made crafts.

Then back to Alexandria  to overnight.

Day(5) Alexandria-El Alamin :

check out after breakfast then go for a 2-hours trip to visit El Alamin area where the Second World war was ,and you can see a tomb for the unknown soldiers from England, Italian and Germany. also the Military mecums and the Italian and German tombs.

 Back to Cairo and overnight.

Day(6):

After breakfast transefer you to the airport for the finial departure.

Programe include :

• Meet and Assist in the airport.

• All transfers in the program with A/C touristic van.

• -2 night at Alexandria hotel 3 or 4 stars B/B.

• Transfer to Alexandria.

• Visits to Rosetta and El-Alamin.

• English speaking guide.

• Lunch at Alexandria and in the first day tour at Cairo (without drinks).

 Not Included:

• Visa Entry for Egypt. (cost 20$ per person) You can obtain it from Cairo airport.

• Entrance fees to all this sites.

• Any other items not mentioned.

• Any Optional tours.

• Tipping.

• Hotels arranged upon request.

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