Day Tour To The Pyramids Of El Fayoum

Highlights :

El Fayoum Pyramids

Hawara Pyramid
Hawara Pyramid

Lahun pyramid

Maydoum Pyramid

funerary complex of king Senefru

Tour Itinerary:

Your leader will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo to visit El Fayoum Pyramids. First, you will visit Hawara Pyramid which backs to kind Amenemhat III (Dynasty XII), its located in a site near El Fayoum city, and its Planning show the genius of the Architect in its corridors to mislead the thieves from reaching the burial chamber, its high about 58 meter and its entrance leads to several corridors which lead to a symbolic burial chamber used to mislead the thieves and by a different hard passages there is the real burial chamber without a door that cannot be reached without moving a stone block of 45 ton.
Then visit Lahun pyramid (back to king Senwsert II, its high about 48 meter, it has a new different plan which disappeared through its corridors and passages which lead to burial chamber by digging 2 wells behind the main pyramid connected under the ground and come out from them some passages lead to the real burial chamber).
Then visit Maydoum Pyramid that located among a funerary complex of king Senefru its considered as the final stage of the model of the step pyramids and its importance was that was located among the oldest complete funerary complex, to the east there were valley & funerary temples now disappeared under the level of the underground water but the small pyramid remains still there. All of complex walls show scenes and writings from old kingdom era to the new kingdom, the main pyramid is a 92 meter in high and consisted of step floors and there was an external passivation made it in the shape of great pyramids style but when it fall the real appearance of the step pyramid appear.

Whats included:

Pick up service from your hotel in Cairo and back.
All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle.
Entrance fees to the mentioned historical place.
guide speaking English.
Bottled water on board the vehicle during the tour.
Late lunch meal at local restaurant in EL Fayoum.
All taxes & service charges.

Whats excluded:

Any extras not mentioned in the program.

International airfare.

Egypt entry visa, for non-restricted nationalities you can buy it upon arrival before passport control, visa Costs $ 15 = 11 Euro per adult or child.

Any optional tours mentioned in the itinerary.

Drinks and any personal expenses.

Entrance fees to special archaeological sites like Mummies room at the Egyptian Museum, inside one of the Pyramids & Tutankhamen Tomb at Valley of the Kings.

Tipping Kitty.

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