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Private Wadi El Natrun Coptic Monasteries Tour from Cairo

4.0مراجعة واحدة

الأوصاف معروضة بالإنجليزية.

  • 6 ساعات
  • إلغاء مجاني حتى 24 ساعة قبل الموعد
  • 6 لغات
  • تأكيد فوري

أبرز ما فيها

About 100 km northwest of Cairo, in a desert depression off the road to Alexandria, sit four of the oldest working monasteries on earth. Wadi El Natrun has been a center of Christian monastic life since the 4th century, when hermits came out to the desert to escape Roman persecution and founded a way of life that shaped monasticism worldwide. On this private day tour your guide takes you into the surviving monasteries, with their fortress walls, ancient churches, and monks who still live and pray there today. You see frescoes, relics, and keeps built to withstand raiders, all still in use after 1,600 years. It is a calm, reflective day, about 6 hours with the desert drive included. Ideal for travelers drawn to early Christian history and a quieter side of Egypt few visitors reach.

ما يشمله

ما يشمله السعر

  • Bottled water
  • All Service charges & taxes
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off in private air-conditioned vehicle (Cairo hotels)
  • Licensed Egyptologist guide with knowledge of Coptic history
  • All entrance fees to the Wadi El Natrun monasteries

ما لا يشمله

  • Gratuities for guide and driver (optional)
  • Lunch, beverages beyond bottled water, personal expenses, and anything not listed as included

خط السير

  1. You enter the Monastery of St. Bishoy through thick mudbrick walls into a quiet world of churches, gardens, and a tall stone keep where monks once sheltered from desert raiders. Founded in the 4th century, it still holds the relics of St. Bishoy and a community of monks who live here today. Your guide explains the rhythms of monastic life and the wall paintings inside the old church. The hush of the place, broken only by chanting, is the point.

    1.5 ساعةالدخول مشمول

  2. A short drive brings you to Deir al-Suryan, the Syrian Monastery, named for the Syrian monks who once lived here. Inside, the Church of the Holy Virgin holds frescoes and a carved wooden door more than a thousand years old, and an ancient tree said to have sprung from a saint's staff still grows in the courtyard. Your guide walks you through the layers of Coptic and Syriac heritage preserved here. It is one of the best-kept of the Wadi's monasteries, still active and welcoming.

    1.5 ساعةالدخول مشمول

الإلغاء

إلغاء مجاني حتى 24 ساعة قبل بدء التجربة، مع استرداد كامل.

المراجعات

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الاصطحاب
الاصطحاب مشمول للجميع.
نوع التذكرة
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
المشغّل
Egypt Day Tours
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
  • Please note: pickup reconfirmation is required upon booking, please refer to voucher for further details

How it compares in Cairo

  • Its from-price is 63% above the median of the 10229 experiences we list in Cairo.
  • Its length is typical for the group.
  • By number of reviews it ranks 4362 of 10229.
  • The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Cairo

Cairo is Egypt's sprawling capital on the Nile, where the Pyramids of Giza meet medieval mosques, busy bazaars and the treasures of the pharaohs.

On the western edge of the city, the Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx rise from the desert plateau, with the step pyramid of Saqqara and the ruins of Memphis further south. Cairo's great museums, the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square and the vast Grand Egyptian Museum beside the plateau, hold artefacts spanning thousands of years.

Top-ranked sights in Cairo: Egyptian Museum (Museum of Egyptian Antiquities), Saqqara (Sakkara), Khan El-Khalili.

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