Giza Trip Overview
After breakfast or after lunch, a private tour guide will pick you up from the lobby of the hotel. Start the trip to Giza Pyramids & Sphinx. Private guided tour with Egyptologist tour guide to Khufu’s pyramid, Chephren’s pyramid, Mykarinus pyramid, Queens’ pyramids, the ancient temples, & the giant Sphinx. The guide private tour will last for around 2 hours.
Transfer you back to your hotel and drop off.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 6 hours
Starts: Giza, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt
After breakfast or after lunch, a private tour guide will pick you up from the lobby of the hotel. Start the trip to Giza Pyramids & Sphinx. Private guided tour with Egyptologist tour guide to Khufu’s pyramid, Chephren’s pyramid, Mykarinus pyramid, Queens’ pyramids, the ancient temples, & the giant Sphinx. The guide private tour will last for around 2 hours.
Transfer you back to your hotel and drop off.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Pyramids of Giza, Al Haram Str., Giza 12611 Egypt
The Giza pyramid complex is an archaeological site on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It includes the three Great Pyramids (Khufu/Cheops, Khafre/Chephren, and Menkaure/Mykerinos), the Great Sphinx, several cemeteries, a workers’ village, and an industrial complex. It is located in the Western Desert, approximately 9 km (5 mi) west of the Nile river at the old town of Giza, and about 13 km (8 mi) southwest of Cairo city center.The pyramids, which have historically been common as emblems of ancient Egypt in the Western imagination,[1][2] were popularized in Hellenistic times when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is by far the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Great Sphinx, Al-Haram, Giza Egypt
The Great Sphinx of Giza The Terrifying One; literally: (Father of Dread), commonly referred to as the Sphinx of Giza or just the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. Facing directly from West to East, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx is generally believed to represent the Pharaoh Khafre.
Cut from the bedrock, the original shape of the Sphinx has been restored with layers of blocks. It measures 73 meters (240 ft) long from paw to tail, 20.21 m (66.31 ft) high from the base to the top of the head and 19 meters (62 ft) wide at its rear haunches. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom during the reign of the Pharaoh Khafre (c. 2558–2532 BC)
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), Giza Egypt
Khufu known to the Greeks as Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26the century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other aspects of his reign are poorly documented
Duration: 30 minutes
