Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival

On arrival in Cairo, our representative meets you with a Black Travel Egypt sign and takes you by private air-conditioned vehicle to your hotel. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 2: Great Pyramids & Egyptian Museum

After breakfast, explore the Giza Plateau and the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, alongside the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure. Stand face to face with the Great Sphinx and walk through the Valley Temple beside it. At the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, your Egyptologist walks you through masterpieces from every era of ancient Egypt. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 3: Maadi Church / Coptic Cairo

After breakfast, in Coptic Cairo, visit the Hanging Church and the quarter where tradition says the Holy Family took refuge. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 4: Cairo Churches

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your expert tour guide will take you to visit other important churches in Cairo:

Transfer to El Matareya, which is ancient Heliopolis, and visit the sacred tree "Maryam's Tree". It is the tree under which the Holy Family rested in its shade. Also, the baby Jesus caused water to flow from a spring from which he drank to awaken this tree.

Next, we will move on to get to the aromatic plant with a lovely scent called balsam. This plant is added to all perfumes from which an anointing or myron oil is made, which is used in church rites.

Then head to the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Zeitoun area. Italian artists painted the church, decorated with carvings of Christ, the Virgin, and many icons drawn by Italian artists.

Then have lunch at a local restaurant in Cairo. After completing your trip, our representative will transfer you to your hotel

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: breakfast & lunch

Day 5: Cairo / Mostorad / Kafr El Sheikh

After breakfast, in Coptic Cairo, visit the Hanging Church and the quarter where tradition says the Holy Family took refuge. Overnight in Cairo.

Day 6: Tel Basta / Tanis

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your expert tour guide will take you to continue the journey of the Holy Family in Egypt and visit:

Your first visit to the city of Babastis (Tel Basta). There, Jesus caused a spring of water to gush out for him to drink.

Then you will visit Tanis, the main capital of the 26th Dynasty. After that, you will arrive at the Small Museum, Ramesses Temple and Royal Tombs.

Then have lunch at a local restaurant in Cairo. After completing your trip, our representative will transfer you to your hotel

Overnight in Cairo.

Meals: breakfast & lunch

Day 7: Red Sea Monasteries / Jabal Al Tair / El Minya

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your expert tour guide will drive you in a private air-conditioned car south along the coast to visit:

Monasteries of St. Anthony and St. Paul. The two monasteries were built in the fourth century AD, but are set dramatically against the cliffs of the eastern desert. The Monastery of St. Anthony is the largest monastery in Egypt. St. Anthony's Church was built over the saint's tomb. St. Paul's is a relatively younger monastery but is decorated with equally stunning antiques.

Saint Paul can be considered the first ever monk. Then we head to Upper Egypt after the Holy Family trip. Our first stop will be in Jabal Al Tair, near the city of Minya. This is the cave where the Holy Family rests. It is now located inside the old church there

Then have lunch at a local restaurant. After completing your trip, our representative will transfer you to your hotel in Minya

Overnight in Minya.

Meals: breakfast & lunch

Day 8: Tuna El-Gabal / Al Ashmunien / Tell El Amarna / Assuit

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your expert tour guide will take you in an air-conditioned private car to visit:

Tuna El-Gebel Cemetery. This place contains many important elements, such as the vaults of baboon and ibis that represent the god Thoth, the tomb of Isadora, the tomb of the priest House of Osiris, the ancient water wheel, and the cascade of the city limits of the Aten.

Then a hearty lunch at a local restaurant.

Then Ashmounin, you will enjoy visiting the open air museum with two huge statues of baboon and the ruins of the basilica with its pink granite columns. Then you reach the Beni Hassan site. It is located on the eastern bank of the Nile River. There we will see prominent tombs carved into the rock with scenes depicting local and regional life in the Middle Kingdom. Many of these scenes depict wrestling and military training.

After completing your trip, our representative will transfer you to your hotel in Assiut.

Overnight in Assiut.

Meals: breakfast & lunch

Day 9: Assuit / Cairo

After a delicious breakfast at your hotel, your expert tour guide will take you in an air-conditioned private car to visit:

Muharraq Monastery. This convent was where the Holy Family resided for 6 months and 10 days, which was the longest they had been in the same location. At this site, the Holy Family received the divine message to return to Palestine.

About 8 km west of the monastery, you will find the rock-cut tombs of Mayar, which belonged to the nobles and rulers during the Sixth and Twelfth Dynasties. The graves are kept in great condition and it would be a great visit.

Then have lunch at a local restaurant in Cairo. After completing your trip, our representative will pick you up on the return trip to your hotel in Cairo.

Overnight in Cairo

Meals: breakfast & lunch

Day 10: Departure

After breakfast, travel by road to Cairo. After breakfast, check out and transfer to the airport for your flight home, with memories to last a lifetime.