Day 01: CAIRO
Arrival at Cairo International Airport, assistance in Spanish from our representative before passport control. Transfer to the hotel and overnight stay.
Day 02: CAIRO
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for the included visit to the Three Pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, the Sphinx, and the Valley Temple of Khafre (entrance to the interior of a pyramid is not included). In the afternoon, visit to the Saqqara Necropolis and the city of Memphis, capital of the Old Kingdom. In the evening, optional visit to the Sound and Light Show at the Pyramids of Giza. Return to the hotel and overnight stay.
Day 03: CAIRO
Breakfast at the hotel. Full day of sightseeing in Cairo: the Egyptian Museum of Pharaonic Art, the Citadel of Saladin with its Alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali, the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, and the Coptic Quarter. In the evening, optional buffet dinner with a show on a boat along the Nile River. Return to the hotel and overnight stay.
Day 04: CAIRO / THE FOUNTAINS OF MOSES / SAINT CATHERINE
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for the Sinai Peninsula via the Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel under the Suez Canal, crossing from Africa to Asia. Visit to Ayun Musa, also known as the Springs of Moses (Mara), followed by departure for the city of Saint Catherine. Arrival at the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.
Day 05: SAINT CATHERINE / MOUNT MOSES / TABA
At dawn, we depart for Mount Sinai (also known as Mount Horeb), 2,285 m high, where the prophet Moses received the tablets of the law from God while the Hebrew people camped at its foot. From the summit, we can witness the sunrise and Mount Saint Catherine, the highest peak on the Sinai Peninsula at 2,637 m. Descending from the mountain, we will visit the Monastery of Saint Catherine (if possible), situated at 1,570 m, with its impressive walls built between 527 and 565 by order of Emperor Justinian on the biblical site of the Burning Bush.
The monastery owes its name to Saint Catherine, an Alexandrian martyr who died in 395 AD. Her body, transported by angels, was discovered five centuries later on the summit of the mountain that bears her name. The monastery is the smallest diocese in the world and the oldest active monastery. Its library houses some of the oldest manuscripts in the world after the Vatican. Return to the hotel. Breakfast and, at the scheduled time, departure for the border crossing where we will leave Egypt.
