CAVE CHURCH OF SAINT SIMON AND GARBAGE AND OLD CAIRO CHURCHES
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Visit the famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo, passing by the Garbage City in Cairo. Private guided tour enables you to see some local sites in Cairo. Also, visiting the most ancient chuches in Egypt situated in Old Cairo (Coptic Cairo)
Departure & Return Location
Cairo
PRICE INCLUDES
• Round trip transfer from / to your destination in private air-conditioned vehicle.
• Private tour guide.
• All the entrance fees to all the mentioned sites as per the itinerary.
• All taxes & service charge.
PRICE EXCLUDES
• Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary.
• Lunch
• Tipping
ITINERARY
Cave Church, Garbage City & Coptic Cairo
Our guide will Pick up you from your hotel in the morning to start your day tour to visit The Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Moqattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is the largest and has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000. It is worth a visit if you are interesting to see something different in Egypt. Then passing by the Garbage City in Cairo where it`s located in a very local neigborhood that calls Manshiyat naser, or “Garbage City in Cairo” as it’s better known as, is a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People”, because they have been sustaining themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew. The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big city dreams and land under their feet. Being very poor, and without a solid 401k plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling the city’s compostable waste products by feeding it to their pigs. Today, Cairo’s Garbage People make ends meet by going door to door to pick up people’s trash for a nominal fee, which is then brought back to their Garbage City neighborhoods. There, they sort and recycle everything they could, using it for their own manufacturing. Note : You will be Passing Through Garbage Place Without getting Off from the Car as the Place is almost Full of Garbage with very bad Smell that can cause diseases that`s why we created a passing through Trip because Customer`s Safety is our main Concern Then passing with The City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo.
Then visit Old Cairo that known as Christian Coptic Cairo which is Among the most important locations visited by the Holy Family where the spiritual impact of their presence is most felt still; though their stay was brief, for the Governor of what was then Fustat enraged by the tumbling down of idols at Jesus’ approach sought to kill the Child. But they took shelter from his wrath in a cave above which, in later years, the Church of Abu Serga (St Sergius) was built. This and the whole area of the Fort of Babylon is a destination of pilgrimage not only for the Egyptians but for Christians from around the world. An air of piety and devotion pervades the whole district there. Also, there you will be able to visit and Enter the Church of Abu-Sergah, the hanging church, and the old Jewish synagogue – Ben Ezra Synagogue.
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