Day 03: Full day tour to Alexandria (B-L-D)
Early breakfast
at the hotel in Cairo then transfer to Alexandria via the desert road –about
225 km– whereby you will start a guided tour to visit the Bombay’s’ pillars, the
Catacombs & Montazah Gardens. You will also pass by Alexandrina Bibliotheca
& overview Qaite Bay citadel from outside
Pompeii Column and Kom el-Shuqafa Catacombs Thirty meters high and built from Aswan
pink granite, the Pompeii Column is thought to have been a present from the
people of Alexandria to Emperor Diocletian. The majority of the remains found
around the column can be been at the Greco-Roman Museum. At the top of the hill
lies the entrance to the Kom al-Shuqafa Catacombs dating from the first and
second centuries. They have been discovered by chance at the beginning of 20th,
century.
Montazah Gardens; is about 150-hectare
park surrounding the palace of Khedive Abbas with its amazing architecture
worth of Walt Disney. Visitors enjoy strolling in the gardens or swimming of
the nice sandy beaches.
Alexandrina
Bibliotheca; the New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca
Alexandrina is dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and scholarship of
the original Bibliotheca Alexandrina. It is much more than a library as it
contains 13 different departments
Besides, the New Library also hosts a
number of institutions which is growing, and it is becoming the nerve centre of
many international and regional networks.
Qaite bay Fort has been guarding the bay for centuries; at the end
of the Cornish rises the crenellated walls of the Mameluk fortress built in
1480 on the site of the Alexandria lighthouse.
Lunch will be served during the tour in a local restaurant.
Drive back to Cairo, dinner at a restaurant & overnight at the hotel