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- duration: 9 Days
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- starting from : Cairo
- end point : Cairo
Holy Family Tour 9 days
Prices
Price per Person
- £ 300 Price per Adult
- £ 200 price per Child
Include
- Meet and assist by our representatives at airports, hotels, boat during the whole stay
- 7 nights on Bed & Breakfast basis in 5* Hotel in Cairo (i.e Conrad or Fairmont Nile city)
- 1 night on Bed & Breakfast basis in decent tourist class Hotel in El Minia
- All transfers to/from airport & hotel by a private air-conditioned vehicle.
- All sightseeing tours are private guided tours.
- Bottled water during your tour.
Excludes
- Any extras not mentioned in the program
- Visa & Tipping
- Entering cheops Pyramids
- Any Optional tours
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival Cairo
Welcome to Cairo, Egypt ..Eagle Travel representative will meet and
assist you at Cairo International Airport(Arrival procedures) and then
he will escort you to the hotel by exclusive air-conditioned deluxe
vehicle. Then he will assist with a smooth check-in and review your
holiday itinerary with you to establish and confirm pick-up times for
each tour.
Overnight in Cairo…
Welcome Drink
Day 2: Pyramids Tours
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then met by your personal guide
who will accompany you to Giza Plateau to visit one of the seven
wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramids of Cheops, Chefren and
Mykerinus and Sphinx then to the Valley temple facing the great statue.
Lunch will be served at a good quality local restaurant in Cairo, then
you will be driven to a visit to the Egyptian Museum, Treasures room for
the child king Tutankhamen. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 3: The Steps of the Holy Family
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then met by your personal guide
who will accompany you to visit the Church of Saint Mary in Mostorod
..This Church is one of the places that graced the visit of the Holy
Family when they came to the land of Egypt in the wake of King Herod's
decision to kill all the children of Bethlehem.
Lunch at Local restaurant Then visit the holy Tree in Matarya &
Visit Zeitoun Church where the appearance of Virgin Mary happened in
1968 was witnessed by thousands of people and a lot of them where healed
from there illness. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 4 : The steps of the Holy Family
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then met by your personal guide
who will accompany you to visit Saint Mary church Ezzbaweya, where it
is located next to Ramses square, as there is also the old cathedral.
The Holy Family has blessed the place, where it was erected by the
church Ezzbaweya afterwards. As the Holy Family passed by this place and
it was a field and asked the Blessed Virgin of the owner of the field
to drink water, the man ejaculates and filled a bucket from the well and
drank all of them.(This well is currently in the Church next to the
entrance on the left), Lunch will be served at a good quality local
restaurant in Cairo Then we take the Bus to visit saint Mary church in
Maadi, ( Al- Adaweya, the virgin's Church of the Ferry) Where the Holy
family boarded a sailing boat which carried them up the Nile towards
southern Egypt. . On 12th March 1976, a Holy Bible was found floating in
the Nile at Maadi miraculously undamaged, it was open at the chapter
Isaiah 19:25 containing the phrase: (Blessed be Egypt my people).
Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 5 : The Steps of the Holy Family
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then met by your personal guide
who will accompany you to visit Old Cairo Known as Misr El Kadima one
of the most important locations visited by the Holy Family where the
spiritual impact of their presence is most felt still. We will go to Abu
Serga ( St Sergius) church where they took shelter in a cave, The
Fortress of Babylon, Al-Mouallaqa (Hanging Church) Dedicated to Virgin
Mary. Proceed to The Coptic Museum, The Jewish Synagogue of Ben Ezra and
finally St Barbara Church. lunch at local restaurant Free walk in Khan
EL Khalili Bazaar. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 6: The Steps of the Holy Family
Breakfast at your hotel in Cairo, and then met by your personal guide
who will accompany you For a drive to Wadi El Natroun (Natroun Valley
/110 KM ) in the western desert of Egypt which became the site of
Anchoretic settlement and later of many monasteries, in spiritual
commemoration of the holy family's through the valley.We will see
Al-Sorian Monastery, Al Baramose Monastery, Abu Makar Monastery and St.
Beshoy Monastery. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 7: Cairo/ El Minia
Check out from hotel , then transfer by an air-conditioned bus to El
Minia ( 241 km) check in & transfer to Maghagha (65 km) visit of Al
Garnous Monastery Virgin Mary church. Outside the western wall of the
Church there is a deep well believed to have provided the holy Family
with the water they need then transfer to Bahnasa (17 KM from Beni
Mazar) Visit of St. Mary Tree…overnight in El Minia.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch box /dinner
Day 8: El Minia / Samalout
Check out from hotel , then transfer by an air-conditioned bus to
Samalout ( 25 km) Visit of the Monastry of Gabal El Tair. It is know by
this name because thousands of birds gather there. Followed by visit of
Nazlet Ebeid (2 KM) (the tree of EL Abd). Transfer back to Cairo (270)
overnight Cairo
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 9: Cairo – Fly Back Home
Breakfast at the hotel with free time at your leisure, then you will
be transferred to Cairo International Airport for your final departure.
Meals: BreakfastThe price depends on the number of participants, please send us a request, then we will make an offer with the exact price.