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- Day
1:
- Your
guide for the day will pick you up and transfer you, cutting
across 220 Kilometers of the Western desert from Cairo is the
city of Alexandria, the bride of the Mediterranean Sea. The trip
takes about 3 hours.
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- Upon
arrival your tour leader will take you to visit the Roman
theater at Kom El Dikka, which is thought to have been a
place more for public meetings than for performances. The
excellent condition of these ruins are attributed to their
accidental discovery 20 years ago during a construction
project in downtown Alexandria.
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- Later
in the afternoon
your tour leader will
take you to visit the Montazah Summer Palace to spend a
quiet afternoon near in the gardens near the Mediterranean
Sea. Later in the afternoon you will check in to your hotel.
Evening is free for leisure. Overnight in hotel.
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- Day
2:
- Your day
will start with an early breakfast at the hotel and check
out. Your guide for the day will pick you up and transfer
you to visit
the Fort and Citadel of Qait Bay, which was built around 1480
by the Mamluk sultan Qait Bay. It is believed to rest on
the site and to be built from the stones of the Pharos
Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
Near by is a small navel museum, which was mostly devoted
to Nelson's defeat of Napoleon's fleet right off the coast
of Alexandria on August 1-2, 1798.
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- Next is a visit
to the Bombay's Pillar which was built in 297 AD for the Roman
Emperor Diocletian. The Pillar itself is a 9 meters / 29
feet in circumference and it is said that 22 people could
lunch on the capital, or flat top of the Pillar. Lunch is
taken en-route.
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- The day ends
with a visit to the Catacomb of
Komel-shokafa. These tombs were tunneled into the bedrock in
the age of the Antonine emperors (2nd century A.D.) for a
single wealthy family still practicing the ancient religion.
These tombs represent the last existing major construction for
the sake of the old Egyptian religion.
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- At the end of
the day return to Cairo.
