Cairo out of the beaten track

If you have been in Cairo before and you saw the usual classical tours of Cairo and you wish to see something more, something unique that not a regular tourist can see. If you wish to get to see more of some particular sites, if you are willing to see some other sites that no one usually visit or even heard about. Then you are here in the right place. Come and explore these new attractions with the Egyptian Guide Tours

Hidden jewels of Sakkara:

A regular tour of Sakkara in a classic program can last for 2 or may be 3 hours, visiting just the Step Pyramid Complex and may get one or 2 mastabas. But here we will do a full day tour of Sakkara of at least 6 hours there where we will explore some of the masterpieces of Sakkara, we will see and know more about Wnnis Pyramid (known as Unas Pyramid. we will explore some of the Southern Sakkara tombs especially the New Kingdom tombs with its amazing value. Also we will see the 2 brothers tomb, the butcher's tomb. Then we will head to Northern Sakkara section where we will explore the amazing Serapeum , which is the underground gallery for burial of the Sacred Bull Apis. we will also explore the Pyramid of Titi. we also can see the Tomb of Maya the nurse who breastfed King Tutankhamon.

It will be a long amazing day where we can see some the hidden jewels of Sakkara.

Average rate around 120 US$ per person (for minimum 2 persons in a tour)

For exact rate & details, please contact us.

Explore the secrets of the Step Pyramid:

For a regular visitor of Sakkara, he can only enter from the southern entrance of the Step Pyramid where they will see nothing but a view from far above to the burial chamber and sarcophagus of King Zoser. But the real adventure is to make a special private visit entering this pyramid from its original gate at the north that will lead you to explore the whole substructure. we will get to see and explore the sarcophagus of the king. will get to go to the lower level to see parts of the corridors that are far deep under the ground. See the magnificent scenes of the King practicing the Heb-Sed Festival. Explore places that no other tourist had been to it stepping into the oldest stone building in the human history and see part of its corridors labyrinth. You will get as far as no other regular tourist could ever go inside.

Such a visit is done and prepared at least 2 weeks ahead to get the special permits to open especially for you with a lot of paper work and fees to be paid for many involved governmental offices.

Average rate around 365 US$ per person (for minimum 4 persons in a tour)

For exact rate for more or less passengers as well as details, please contact us.

In case if you wish to mix this tour with the Hidden Jewels of Sakkara Tour please contact us.

Glory of Islamic architecture at Al-Darb Al-Ahmar:

Most of Cairo visitors knows about Al-Moez street, where they can see monuments dating back to the kings and sultans who ruled Egypt during the Islamic era. But very few of them may ever heard of Al-Darb Al-Ahmar street and its surrounding monuments. It is a very special tour, where we are going to visit places no one heard about and it will start by heading to Al-Azhar park where we will see a short video to introduce the path to you. Then we will get in Golf Cars to start the tour, we will see some of the unique wall of Cairo built by Salah El-Din (Saladin) and see one of its ancients gates, then we will see Al-Darb Al-Ahmar steet, will visit Bab-Zweila which was one of the ancient gates of Cairo and can climb to its top for a great panoramic view of the surrounding area. We will see a Medrasah (Religious School) , Sabil, Mosque, Kobba (Dome of a Mausoleum ) as well as a house of a rich man. Plus to this will have general information of the area as all the monuments there had been built by High officials and Princes during different periods of the Islamic History of Cairo.

Average rate around 80 US$ per person (for minimum 2 persons in a tour)

For exact rate & details, please contact us.