Tour to Egyptian Museum, Cairo Citadel and Old Cairo

Three thousand years of history across one remarkable city

This full-day tour offers direct access to the Egyptian Museum Cairo, the Citadel of Salah El Din, Mohamed Ali Mosque, and the historic district of Old Cairo, all in a single well-paced itinerary departing from Cairo Airport. Guests encounter over 250,000 artifacts spanning five millennia, monumental Islamic architecture dating to the 12th century, and a concentration of early Christian and Jewish heritage sites rarely found in one neighborhood. The pace is designed for comfort, with hotel pickup and drop-off included.

The Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square houses the world's largest collection of pharaonic antiquities, including the renowned Tutankhamun treasury recovered from his sealed tomb in the 1920s. Gold funerary masks, royal jewelry, and ceremonial objects that remained undisturbed for more than 3,500 years are presented across two floors of the museum's neoclassical building. No other single institution brings the scope of ancient Egyptian civilization into such close focus.

The Citadel of Salah El Din, begun in 1183 AD, anchors the skyline of Islamic Cairo from its limestone promontory above the city. Within its walls, the Mohamed Ali Alabaster Mosque was constructed in the 19th century and remains one of the most recognized silhouettes in Egypt. Old Cairo, known as Coptic Cairo, preserves a quarter that predates the founding of modern Cairo and contains the Hanging Church, the Church of Abu Serga, the Church of St. Barbara, and the Ben Ezra Synagogue within walking distance of each other.