Cairo Trip Overview
Visit the unusual places of the world war II with an expertise guide of the history and locations of the places
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Duration: 3 days
Starts: Cairo, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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Visit the unusual places of the world war II with an expertise guide of the history and locations of the places
Itinerary
Day 1: El alamein museum and commonwealth
Stop At: El Alamein War Museum, Km 105, Alex Matrouh Desert Rd. El Alamein, El Alamein 51718 Egypt
Our guide will pick you up in Cairo and take you to the city of El Alamein to begin your visit to the El Alamein War Museum in an air-conditioned vehicle. When you arrive at the museum you will see it has separate rooms dedicated to the four main countries involved in the war including Great Britain, Italy, Germany, and Egypt.
Duration: 3 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at the Hotel
Day 2: German, Italian, Libyan, Greek cemeteries and Hans-Joachim Marseille tomb
Stop At: El Alamein War Cemetery, Markaz Al Alamein Matrouh, El Alamein 51718 Egypt
After getting the background on what will we yesterday at the museum, we will go to our first stop is the German cemetery, which was built in the form of a fortress. It contains 4,213 German burials from the Second World War and 30 from the First World War. The Italian Cemetery, roughly where the front line between opposing armies ran in World War II. Libyan Cemetery honors those forces that fought side-by-side with Italians. The Greek cemetery contains the remains of Greek soldiers and officers who fell in October 1942.
After a long day you will be driven to your hotel in Alexandria for a wonderful meal and welcome rest.
Duration: 6 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: overnight at Alexandria hotel
Day 3: Catacombs, Pompey pillars and Commonwealth
Stop At: Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, Kom Al Shokafa, Alexandria 21599 Egypt
Visit this morning and visit the Catacombs of Alexandria, the largest and most important burial site in Egypt. It is a testimony to the Egyptian belief in honoring their dead. As we tour the Catacombs, you can easily spot the Greco-Roman influence throughout the necropolis. You will walk down a spiral staircase to view these tombs, where over 300 mummies were buried.
It was unearthed in the early 20th century by chance in the early 20th century. Considered one of the largest and most important of its kind, the Kom El Shoqafa catacombs have a mixture of Roman, Hellenistic, Pharaonic and Ancient Egyptian decorative art, elements that were common during this period in Alexandria.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Pompey’s Pillar, Al Karah WA at Toubageyah WA Kafr Al Ghates, Alexandria 21599 Egypt
Pompey’s Pilar is of the most notable landmarks of the city of Alexandria, it consists mainly of a huge granite column dating back to Roman times. The name given to the column is due to the fact that the crusaders believed that it marked the place where Pompey had been buried. It is said that Ptolemy XIII, presented the head of Pompey to Caesar as a great triumph. However, 19th century researchers showed that the shaft is actually that of the Column of Serapis, which comes from the ruins of the Serapeum of Alexandria, destroyed in 391, long after Diocletian’s reign.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Chatby Tombs, Port Said Sreet, Alexandria 21599 Egypt
The Chatby Tombs date back to around 300 BC and although smaller than the tombs in Luxor or Aswan it is still fascinating. It has about 50 burial sites and is an out-of-the-way place very few people visit while
in Egypt.
At the end of the day our Egyptoria Tour Guides will return you to an agreed upon drop-off and we will have to say goodbye until our next tour.
Duration: 1 hour
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
