Daily tours in Cairo:
The Pyramids & Sphinx private tour $ 120
Includes pick up from your hotel, private guide, private transportation and entrance fees. More info
Full Day Pyramids, Sphinx & Egyptian Museum private tour $ 162
Experience the best of Cairo with a local private guide, including transportation and entrance tickets to the Pyramids and the Egyptian museum. More info
Full Day Pyramids, Sphinx & Egyptian Museum private tour $165
The regularity and richness of the annual Nile flooding, coupled with semi-isolation provided by two deserts to the east and to the west, allowed for the development of one of the world’s great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose around 3200 BC and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia.
The last native dynasty fell to the Persians in 341 BC, who in turn were replaced by the Greeks, the Romans, and the Byzantines. It was the Arabs who introduced Islam and the Arabic language in the 7th century and who ruled for the next six centuries. A local military caste, the Mamluks, took control about 1250 and continued to govern after the conquest of Egypt by the Ottoman Turks in 1517.
Following the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt became an important world transportation hub, but also fell heavily into debt. Ostensibly to protect its investments, Britain seized control of Egypt’s government in 1882, but nominal allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914. Partially independent from the UK in 1922, Egypt acquired full sovereignty following World War II. The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake Nasser have altered the time-honoured place of the Nile River in agriculture and the ecology of Egypt.
Popular places to Visit are:
Cairo
Luxor
Aswan
Alexandria
