Fayoum Historical Tour

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From US
US$145/person
Duration: 1 Days
Type: Private Tour
Run: Everyday
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Overview & Itinerary

Included

  • Hotel pick up and drop off in air-conditioned vehicle
  • Transportation in air-conditioned vehicle
  • English, French, Italian & German speaking guide
  • Entrance fees to the archaeological sites
  • Lunch

Excluded

  • Tipping 
  • Drinks

Itinerary

Fayoum Pyramids Tour

 

In the morning, you will be picked up in an air-conditioned vehicle from your hotel in Cairo. Accompanied by a guide, you will be taken to the city of Fayoum.

Fayoum thrived during the Middle Kingdom when the fertile area around Birket Qarun began to be developed as a pleasure-ground in which kings and high officials hunted.

Your first stop of the day is the Pyramid of Hawara and Al Lahun. As the oasis of El-Faiyum became more important during Dynasty XII, a number of religious monuments were built there and the next pharaoh to construct his pyramid in the region was Amenemhet III. This was not the king’s first choice of burial site, he had previously built a pyramid at Dahshur, to the north, during the early part of his long reign. Later, he opted to begin a second pyramid at Hawara, near the site of his grandfather’s monument at Al Lahun. The king’s second pyramid was built with a core of mud bricks and white limestone casing, which was removed in Roman times. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch you will continue to explore the Greco-Roman monuments of the ruins of Karanis town. Here you will find monuments dating from the Ptolemaic, Coptic and early Arab settlement.

On leaving Karanis, you will be dropped back to your hotel in Cairo.

Itinerary

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