Day Tour to The National Museum, Citadel and Al-Khalili Bazaar

Our Egyptologist tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in a private air-conditioned vehicle to visit the NMEC. The main inauguration was accompanied by the pharaohs’ golden parade of the royal mummies that were transferred from Cairo museum to NMEC in great nocturnal celebrations through Cairo streets.  You can watch these celebrations by clicking this link: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF41A6vVpow)                                                        The museum consists of the Main Hall which covers an area of 1000 square meters and showcases the four main crafts that shaped the Egyptian culture: pottery, textile wood and ornaments, and the Royal Mummies’ Hall which includes 20 royal mummies, 18 kings and 2 queens, among them Ramses II, Queen Hatshepsut, thutmose III and many more.

Then proceed to visit the citadel of Saladin which was the official residence of the rulers of Egypt till the mid-nineteenth century. It includes many monuments inside, however; the most spectacular one is the nineteenth century mosque of Mohamed Ali where your guide will lead you to explore its unique Turkish design and its highly decorated inner ceiling. And for your pleasure you will be transferred to have a walk around the medieval old Bazaar of Al- Khalili located in the heart of old Cairo.

At the end; you will be transferred back to your hotel.

The tour includes:

• Entrance fees of all the sightseeing mentioned in the itinerary.
• Transportation from hotel and return in a private air-conditioned vehicle.
• Private Egyptologist tour guide.
• Bottled water.
• All service charges and taxes.

The tour excludes:

• Tipping.
• Any other service not mentioned in the itinerary.