Your guide collects you from your Cairo hotel in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle. The drive to Islamic Cairo takes you past the city's modern districts before the skyline begins to give way to minarets and stone facades.

Cross Al-Azhar Street to enter the Wekalet el Ghoury, a caravansary-style complex that once housed traveling merchants during Cairo's peak as a medieval trade center. Next door, the Mamluk-era house of Zeinab Khatoun offers an intimate look at traditional domestic architecture from the same period.

Stroll along one of Cairo's oldest historic streets, passing mosques, madrasas, and palaces built across multiple dynasties. Lunch is taken in the area before the afternoon segment of the tour begins.

Built in the ninth century, Ibn Tulun is the oldest intact mosque in Egypt and one of the largest in the world by area. Its distinctive spiral minaret, modeled on the mosque at Samarra, remains a defining feature of Cairo's skyline and sets this site apart from later Islamic monuments in the city.

Adjacent to Ibn Tulun, this pair of joined 17th-century houses was restored and lived in by British officer R.G. Gayer-Anderson, who filled the rooms with antiques, manuscripts, and traditional furnishings. The museum gained international recognition as a filming location for a classic spy film and remains one of Cairo's most visited historic interiors.

Your driver returns you to your Cairo hotel at the conclusion of the tour. WiFi is available in the vehicle throughout the journey, keeping you connected as you reflect on the day.