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Cairo Day Tours Through Museums, Islamic and Coptic Cairo

Cairo Day Tours

Explore the best of Cairo on a day tour of the Egyptian Museum, Islamic Cairo, Coptic Cairo and Khan El Khalili bazaar. Add a Nile felucca ride or a private combo tour.

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Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Egyptian Museum Tour in Tahrir Square with Lunch

The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square, the big pink building that has held Cairo's antiquities since 1902, can overwhelm anyone who walks in without a plan. Your guide leads you through the galleries to the pieces worth your time and explains what you're looking at. Lunch is at a restaurant nearby before you head back to the hotel.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Coptic Museum, Old Cairo Churches and Cave Church Tour

A day for anyone interested in Egypt's Christian history. Start at the Coptic Museum, which holds the largest collection of Coptic art in the world, then walk the lanes of Old Cairo to the Hanging Church and the churches around it. Next, drive up to Mokattam for the Cave Church of St. Simon, cut into the cliff above the Zabbaleen neighborhood, and finish with lunch at a local restaurant.

$130 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Cairo Citadel, Coptic Cairo and Cave Church Tour with Lunch

Start on the high ground of the Saladin Citadel, where the Mosque of Muhammad Ali looks out over the whole city. From there, drive down to Coptic Cairo to see the Hanging Church and the old churches inside the walls of the Babylon Fortress. After lunch at a local restaurant, the day ends at the Monastery of St. Simon in Mokattam, better known as the Cave Church.

$130 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and Royal Mummies Tour

The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat tells Egypt's story from the first farmers to the present day. Most people come for the Royal Mummies Hall, where the kings and queens carried here in the 2021 Pharaohs' Golden Parade now lie, Ramses II and Hatshepsut among them. Your guide covers both in about four hours, with hotel pickup.

$80 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Cave Church and Garbage City Tour in Mokattam, Cairo

The Monastery of St. Simon sits at the top of Manshiyat Naser, the Mokattam neighborhood where Cairo's Zabbaleen collect and sort much of the city's rubbish. Its main church is carved into the cliff and seats around 20,000 people, and the rock faces around it are covered in biblical carvings. Your guide tells the community's story on the drive up through the neighborhood.

$60 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Coptic Cairo, Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque and Cave Church Tour

In Old Cairo, churches, a synagogue and a mosque stand within a few minutes' walk of each other. You'll visit the churches of Coptic Cairo, then the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, founded in 642 as the first mosque in Egypt and in Africa. After lunch at a local restaurant, the day ends at the Cave Church of St. Simon in Mokattam. The Coptic Museum or a sunset dinner facing the pyramids can be added for an extra charge.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Ibn Tulun, Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifai Mosques Tour

Ibn Tulun, finished in 879, is the oldest mosque in Cairo still in its original form, with a vast courtyard and a minaret you climb by an outside spiral stair. From there it's a short drive to Sultan Hassan, a 14th-century Mamluk mosque and school of enormous scale, and Al-Rifai right beside it, where Egypt's last kings and the last Shah of Iran are buried.

$95 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Downtown Cairo Walking Tour and Cairo Tower

Downtown Cairo was laid out in the 1860s on the model of Haussmann's Paris, and many of its belle époque buildings still line Talaat Harb and Qasr El Nil streets. Your guide walks you through the squares, old cafés and passages, then you cross the Nile to Gezira Island and ride up the 187-meter Cairo Tower for a view over the whole city.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Al-Azhar Park Tour in Islamic Cairo

Al-Azhar Park was built on a hill of rubbish that had piled up over five centuries, and opened in 2005 as one of the largest green spaces in Cairo. Walk its gardens and fountains with views over the domes and minarets of Islamic Cairo and the Citadel. Go in the late afternoon if you can; the light on the old city is at its best near sunset.

$65 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Museum of Islamic Art Tour in Cairo

The Museum of Islamic Art at Bab al-Khalq holds one of the world's largest collections of Islamic art, with around 100,000 objects from Egypt, Persia, Syria, Turkey and Spain. Highlights include Mamluk glass mosque lamps, carved wooden doors and early Qur'an manuscripts. Your guide shapes the visit around what interests you.

$70 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Cairo Tower Visit and Lunch by the Nile

Ride up the Cairo Tower on Gezira Island, 187 meters above the river, for a view across the city that reaches the pyramids on a clear day. Afterwards, lunch is at a restaurant on the Nile, where you can watch the feluccas go by.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Felucca Ride and Romantic Nile Dinner in Cairo

Board a felucca, the Nile's traditional wooden sailboat, for a half-hour sail as the city lights come on. Back on land, dinner is at a riverside restaurant with a table by the water.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Al-Muizz Street, Tentmakers Market and Naguib Mahfouz Lunch

Start in the Al-Ghouri market, walk the length of Al-Muizz Street past Fatimid and Mamluk mosques and madrasas, and continue to the Street of the Tentmakers (Al-Khayamiya), where craftsmen still stitch colorful appliqué panels by hand. Lunch is at the Naguib Mahfouz restaurant in Khan El Khalili, named after Egypt's Nobel-winning novelist.

$130 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Coptic Cairo and Khan El Khalili Bazaar Day Tour

Start in Coptic Cairo with the Hanging Church and the Church of St. Sergius, where tradition says the Holy Family sheltered. In the afternoon, head to Khan El Khalili, Cairo's bazaar since the 14th century, with time to browse the lamps, spices and silver and to stop for tea in the lanes. Lunch, hotel pickup and a private guide are included.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

NMEC Royal Mummies and Cave Church Private Tour

Both stops are in the same part of Cairo, so there's time to do each one properly. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization covers Egypt's history from prehistory to today and holds the Royal Mummies Hall. Then you drive up to Mokattam and the Cave Church of St. Simon, cut into the cliffs above the Zabbaleen neighborhood.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Coptic Cairo, Cave Church and City of the Dead Private Tour

Start among the churches of Coptic Cairo, then drive up to the Cave Church of St. Simon in Mokattam. Next is the City of the Dead, a centuries-old cemetery of Mamluk tombs where families now live among the graves. The day finishes in Khan El Khalili with free time to shop.

$130 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

NMEC Museum Tour and Nile Felucca Ride

See the Royal Mummies and the rest of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with your guide, then slow down with half an hour on the Nile in a felucca, the traditional sailboat. It works well for a first or last day in Cairo.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Cave Church, Garbage City and Felucca Ride Tour

Ride through Manshiyat Naser, the district where the Zabbaleen have sorted and recycled Cairo's rubbish for generations, up to the Monastery of St. Simon and its church carved into the Mokattam cliffs. Afterwards, unwind with a 30-minute felucca sail on the Nile.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Khan El Khalili and City of the Dead Private Tour

Begin in the City of the Dead, the vast cemetery east of the old city where Mamluk sultans built domed tombs and where thousands of Cairenes now make their homes. Then walk into Khan El Khalili, Cairo's great bazaar, for shopping and a break in one of its cafés.

$80 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Khan El Khalili Evening and Dinner Facing the Pyramids

Spend the late afternoon in Khan El Khalili, when the bazaar is at its busiest and the lamps start to glow, then drive to Giza for a romantic dinner with the pyramids lit up in front of you.

$125 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Mamluk Tombs, Al-Muizz Street and Old Cairo Gates Tour

Start among the domed mausoleums of the Mamluk sultans in the Northern Cemetery, then walk the length of Al-Muizz Street, past mosques, madrasas and public fountains, to Bab al-Futuh and Bab al-Nasr, the stone gates of the 11th-century city wall. Lunch is included.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Manial Palace, Nilometer and Abdeen Palace Tour

Manial Palace on Roda Island mixes Ottoman, Persian and Moorish styles inside a garden of banyan trees. At the island's southern tip, the Nilometer has measured the river's flood since 861. Abdeen Palace, the royal family's main residence until 1952, now houses museums of arms, silver and gifts to Egypt's presidents.

$90 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Cairo Tower and Two-Hour Nile Motorboat Cruise

See Cairo from above, then from the water. First comes the view from the top of the Cairo Tower on Gezira Island, then two hours on the Nile in a private motorboat with drinks on board, passing Zamalek, Garden City and the downtown bridges.

$140 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Two-Hour Private Nile Motorboat Cruise in Cairo

Two hours on the Nile in a private motorboat, with soft drinks on board. It's one of the calmest ways to see Cairo, and the city looks its best from the water around sunset.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Coptic Cairo, Garbage City, Cairo Tower and Nile Cruise

Morning is in Coptic Cairo among the old churches, followed by Manshiyat Naser, the Garbage City, where the Zabbaleen run one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world. Late in the afternoon, go up the Cairo Tower before a two-hour motorboat cruise on the Nile with drinks on board.

$175 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 7 Hours

Egyptian Museum with Coptic Cairo or Khan El Khalili

Start with your guide at the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square. After that, it's your choice: the churches and lanes of Coptic Cairo, or the shops and cafés of Khan El Khalili bazaar. Lunch is included either way.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Egyptian Museum Tour and Nile Felucca Ride

Spend the first part of the day at the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square with your guide. The Nile is only a few minutes away, so the second part is a felucca sail, a quiet way to rest your feet after the galleries.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 6 Hours

Egyptian Museum and NMEC Royal Mummies Tour

The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square has held the country's antiquities since 1902. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization opened its Royal Mummies Hall in 2021 and tells Egypt's story from prehistory to today. Your guide takes you through both, with lunch in between.

$125 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 6 Hours

NMEC Museum and Coptic Cairo Tour

The two sites are only a few minutes apart in Old Cairo. Start at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and its Royal Mummies Hall, then walk through Coptic Cairo to the Hanging Church, the Church of St. Sergius and the Ben Ezra Synagogue.

$110 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

NMEC, Coptic Cairo and Khan El Khalili Day Tour

Start with the NMEC and its Royal Mummies, then spend the early afternoon among the churches of Coptic Cairo, a few minutes' drive away. The day ends in Khan El Khalili with time to wander, shop and sit down for tea.

$140 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Islamic Cairo Day Tour with Al-Azhar and Tanoura Show

Walk Al-Muizz Street, visit Al-Azhar Mosque, founded in 970, and wander Khan El Khalili. Your guide then takes you through the old city gates and the former Jewish Quarter, and the day ends with the evening Tanoura show at Wekalet El Ghouri.

$110 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Downtown Cairo Walk, Tahrir Square and Egyptian Museum

Start with tea or coffee near Tahrir Square while your guide explains its place in the city's history. Then walk to Opera Square and through Downtown's belle époque streets, and finish at the Egyptian Museum.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Breakfast and Coffee in Zamalek

A slow morning on Zamalek, the leafy Nile island with embassies, galleries and some of Cairo's best cafés. Breakfast and coffee are included, and there's time for a walk under the trees afterwards.

$85 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Cairo Souqs Walking Tour: Al-Ghouri, Tentmakers and Al-Muizz

The souqs around Al-Ghouri come first, then the Street of the Tentmakers for hand-stitched appliqué, and finally a walk along Al-Muizz Street to the Fatimid gates in the old city wall. Lunch is at a local restaurant in the old city.

$80 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 4 Hours

Picnic on a Nile Island in Maadi

Spend half a day on a green island in the Nile off Maadi, with palm trees, open lawns and river views. Bring your own food or ask us to arrange a picnic setup. It suits families and anyone who needs a break from Cairo's traffic.

$80 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Coptic Cairo, Cave Church and Khan El Khalili Day Tour

See the churches of Coptic Cairo in the morning, then drive up to the Cave Church of St. Simon in Mokattam, built inside the rock and seating around 20,000. In the afternoon, Khan El Khalili's lanes are yours for shopping, spices and souvenirs. Lunch is included.

$120 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 6 Hours

Coptic Cairo Churches and Ben Ezra Synagogue Tour

Inside the walls of the Roman Babylon Fortress you'll find the Hanging Church, built over the fortress gatehouse, and the Church of St. Sergius, where the Holy Family is said to have rested. Close by is the Ben Ezra Synagogue, where the Cairo Geniza, hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscript fragments, was found in the 1890s.

$65 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 6 Hours

Nile Breakfast, Shopping Day and Pyramids View Dinner

An easy day with no monuments to rush. Breakfast by the Nile, then a few hours of shopping for spices, perfume oils, cotton and handicrafts with your guide. In the evening, dinner is on a rooftop opposite the Giza Pyramids as the sun goes down and the lights come on.

$125 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Al-Azhar Mosque, Al-Ghouri Market and Tanoura Show

Walk through the Al-Ghouri market and visit Al-Azhar Mosque, founded in 970 and home to one of the oldest universities in the world. After dark, watch the Tanoura show, Egypt's version of the whirling dervish dance, with live Sufi music and dancers in spinning colored skirts.

$75 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

NMEC, Coptic Cairo, Cave Church and Al-Muizz Street Tour

Begin at the NMEC with the Royal Mummies, continue to the churches of Coptic Cairo and the Cave Church of St. Simon the Tanner in Mokattam, then walk Al-Muizz Street and finish in Khan El Khalili. It's a long day on foot, so wear comfortable shoes.

$150 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 3 Hours

Cairo Nile Dinner Cruise with Belly Dance Show

We pick you up around 6:30 pm for a dinner cruise on the Nile, usually aboard the Maxim or the Nile Pharaoh, depending on availability. Over two to three hours you have dinner, a belly dance show and Egyptian folk music, with time on the open deck to see the city lit up. Drinks with dinner are extra.

$120 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Coptic Cairo, NMEC, Cave Church and Sunset Felucca Tour

Pickup is at 8 am for a full private day. Start in Coptic Cairo, see the Royal Mummies at the NMEC, and stop for lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, visit the Cave Church of St. Simon in Garbage City, then end on the Nile with a felucca sail of about 40 minutes at sunset.

$150 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Cave Church, Ben Ezra Synagogue, GEM and Pyramids Dinner

Your guide meets you at your hotel in Cairo or Giza for a private day that covers the Cave Church of St. Simon the Tanner, the Hanging Church and the other churches of Coptic Cairo, the Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Grand Egyptian Museum. Dinner at Hayat Pyramids View comes with the floodlit pyramids in front of you.

$200 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

NMEC, Coptic Cairo, Amr Mosque and Garbage City Tour

Start at the NMEC, then walk through Coptic Cairo to the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, the first mosque built in Africa. After lunch, see the Zabbaleen's Garbage City and its Cave Church, and end the day in Khan El Khalili and on Al-Muizz Street, the old Fatimid high street often called an open-air museum.

$150 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Khan El Khalili, Al-Azhar and Fustat Shopping Tour

The morning is in Islamic Cairo: Khan El Khalili, Al-Muizz Street and Al-Azhar Mosque. Then head south to Fustat, Egypt's first Islamic capital, for the crafts village where artisans make pottery and handicrafts, some time on a local shopping street, and the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, founded in 642.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 5 Hours

Sunset Felucca Ride and Khan El Khalili Walk

Sail on the Nile in a felucca as the sun goes down, then head to Khan El Khalili, which is at its liveliest in the evening. Your guide walks you through the lanes of lamp makers, spice sellers and old cafés.

$100 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Cave Church, Islamic Cairo and Romantic Pyramids Dinner

Begin at the Cave Church of St. Simon in Garbage City, then walk through Khan El Khalili to Al-Azhar Mosque and along Al-Muizz Street, with free time for shopping. In the evening, a romantic dinner at Hayat Pyramids View is timed for sunset over the pyramids.

$135 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 8 Hours

Cave Church Tour and Romantic Dinner Facing the Pyramids

We pick you up at noon and drive through Manshiyat Naser, the Garbage City, to the Cave Church of St. Simon the Tanner, carved into the Mokattam cliffs. Then cross the city to Giza for a romantic dinner at Hayat Pyramids View, looking out at the pyramids and the Sphinx.

$130 / person

Cairo Day Tours — 1 Day

Islamic and Coptic Cairo Full Day Tour

We meet you at 8:30 am and start in Fustat at the Mosque of Amr Ibn Al-As, built in 642. Then come the Hanging Church, St. George, the crypt church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, the Babylon Fortress and the Ben Ezra Synagogue. After the Cave Church of St. Simon and lunch, visit the mosques of Sultan Hassan, Al-Rifai and Ibn Tulun, and finish on Al-Muizz Street and in Khan El Khalili.

$150 / person