Travel to 2-Day Trip to El Minya from Cairo with Wings Travel

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2-Day Trip to El Minya from Cairo

This adventure will take you off of the traditional tourist track to El Minya, 4 hours south of Cairo in Upper Egypt. Enjoy two day tour in the area Visiting: ancient pharaonic tombs, Tuna El Gabal, Beni Hassan and Tel Amarna.
Tour Duration : 2 Days

Included

Pick up services from your hotel in Cairo and return
Accommodation at 4* hotel (Aton Hotel or Siva Nefertiti Hotel) including bed and breakfast
All transfers by a private air-conditioned vehicle
Private English-speaking Egyptologist guide throughout tours
Entrance fees to all the sights in Minya
Two lunch times during the tour in El Minya at a local restaurant
Bottled water on board the vehicle
All services charges and taxes

Excluded

Any Extras not mentioned in the itinerary
Tipping

Days 1: Cairo Drice To El Minya / Tuna El Gabal

At the morning you will be picked up by your private guide and driver from your hotel to El Minya, about 4 hours driving. Arrive El-Minya and start to visit the city’s site, including the great plain where Akhenaton received his divine inspiration to build his city. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant in El Minya, then proceeds to Tuna El Gabal where you can see the tomb of Petosiris, Ibis catacombs and Isadora tomb (This tomb goes back to the 2nd century AD and belongs to Isadora the renown for her beauty in the city of Hermopolis ), overnight in El Minya.

Days 2: Beni Hassan - Tel El Amarna / Drive Back To Cairo

In the morning, your tour guide will escort you to Beni Hassan; where you can see Bakhet III tomb (Bakhet III was the Governor of the Oryx Nome), Khnumhotep tomb (Khnumhotep was a governor under Amenemhat III in the 12th dynasty) and Khety tomb (It belongs to a governor in the 11th dynasty). Lunch at a local restaurant, then proceeds to Tel El Amarna where you can see the northern tombs among of which Ahmose tomb and Huya tomb. Later, drive back to your hotel in Cairo.