CAIRENES & MOUNT SINAI

Upon our arrival in Cairo, the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt, transportation to the hotel will be provided by one of our vehicles. Our driver will ensure your comfort throughout the journey.

Upon arrival at the hotel, the assistant will help us with check-in.

The rest of the day will be for relaxation, and to begin enjoying the hotel's amenities.

Greca Tip: If desired, you can pre-purchase your visa to Egypt in step 1 of 3 of your booking process, through which you will have an assistant to help you with all necessary procedures upon your arrival in Cairo.

You will start the day with a delicious breakfast in the hotel dining room.

Then you will start the full-day tour to Cairo where you will visit the most important places of this historic city, starting with the Museum of Art Pharaonic, in the heart of the city where countless artifacts of incalculable value stand out, such as Tutankhamun's treasure, sarcophagi, mummies and sculptures of unimaginable beauty.

Next, you will go to historic Cairo, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and which, since the 10th century, was the area of ​​the Caliphs and their mosques. The Citadel of Saladin stands out, later fortified to defend it from the Crusaders almost a millennium ago.

Afterward, you will visit the Jan El Jalili bazaar, where you will have free time to test your negotiating skills.

Before returning to the hotel, you will personally visit the Coptic neighborhood, with its melting pot of religions and in which the Hanging Church built on the Babylon Fortress stands out, the church of San Sergio where it is believed that the Holy Family took refuge in Egypt when fleeing of Herod and the synagogue of Ben Ezra, one of the oldest in the country.

Optionally, you can also enjoy a Buffet dinner with a show in a floating restaurant on the Nile River at night.

Tip Greca: Don't miss the opportunity to haggle in the bazaar as long as you buy something.

Early in the morning and after a delicious breakfast at the hotel, you will start the route to the Suez Canal. This monumental work of artificial navigation joins the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and represents the limit between Africa and Asia.

You will pass under the canal, crossing the Ahmed Hamdi tunnel and the famous Mitla pass. On the way, you will visit Ayun Musa or the Bath of Moses and then continue to the city of Sanit Catherine where you will have dinner and stay.

Greca Tip: The Saint Catherine Monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in the world that is still inhabited.

At dawn, you will go to the Mount of Moses or Mount Sinai (Mount Horeb) 2285 meters high, where the prophet Moses received from God the tables of the law while the Hebrew people camped at the foot of the mountain, from the top of the mount you can see the sunrise and Mount Santa Catalina the highest peak of the peninsula 2637 meters.

Going down the mountain, you could visit the Monastery of Santa Catalina located at 1570 meters high with its impressive walls built between 527 and 565 by order of Emperor Justinian in the biblical place of the burning bush.

The monastery owes its name to Saint Catherine, an Alexandrian martyr who died in the year 395, whose body transported by angels would be discovered 5 centuries later on the top of the mountain that bears her name.

The monastery is the smallest diocese in the world and the monastery's oldest asset its library has the oldest manuscripts in the world after the Vatican.

After the visit, we will return to the hotel for breakfast and, at the scheduled time, depart to the border point where you will leave Egypt.

Greca Tip: The Monastery is not always open to the public, So on some days it would not be able to visit.