* Religious Packages

"The Holy Family"

10th Package

8 days

6 Nights Cairo + 1 Night Menya.

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Day 1

Cairo

Arrival at Cairo airport. Meet and assist by Emilio Travel representative and transfer to the Hotel in Cairo.
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 2

Cairo / Mostorod / Belbeis / Samannoud / Sakha/ Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
Start of our trip in the direction of south to Mostorod “El Mahama” village, 10 km away from Cairo, then continue our trip to Belbeis, 55 km from Cairo to visit “The Virgin Mary’s Tree”.
Leaving Belbeis we reach Basta, 100 km to the north-east of Cairo. Afterwards, we will take the north-west direction reaching the small township of Meniet Samannoud and crossing the Nile to the city of Samannoud in the Delta, to visit the large granite trough which was used by the Virgin for kneading dough, and a water-well which the Christ Child Himself hallowed. Again towards the north-west, we reach Sakha to view the foot print of the Holy Child’s marked in bas relief on a rock.
Finally we drive back to Cairo,
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 3

Cairo / Wadi Natroun / Matareya / Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
Start of our today’s journey to Wadi Natroun to visit the 4 monasteries of Deir Anba Bishoi, Deir El-Baramus ,Deir Abu Maqar Deir and Al-Suryani in which we will see the famous superb ebony “Door of Prophecies”.
Returning back to Cairo to the areas of Matariyah and Ain Shams to view the “Mary’s Tree”.
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 4

Cairo / Old Cairo / Maadi / Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
Today we will visit the Old Cairo with its seven churches and then visit the Virgin’s Church ‘of the Ferry’ in Maadi where the stone steps leading down top the River’s bank believed to have been used by the Holy Family.
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 5

Cairo / Maghagha / Bahnassa / Samallout / El-Ashmounin / Menya

Breakfast at the hotel.
Driving to Maghagha, we reach the village of Deir-Garmous for visiting the Church of the Virgin there, then we reach the nearby Abai Issous or Sandafa as called nowadays. On towards the south we arrive from Bahnassa to Samalout and visit the Monastery of the Virgin now stands upon Gabal El Tair. To the south, we reach the tree bowed for the worship of the Lord Christ,
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Menya.

Day 6

Menya / Assyout / Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
In the early morning we will visit Gabal Qussqam to the western of which lies the Monastery of Al Muharraq.
Then we will start our way back to Cairo.
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 7

Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
Day free for leisure.(Possibility for optional excursions to Pyramids, Sphinx, Citadel, Egyptian Museum).
Overnight at the hotel in Cairo.

Day 8

Cairo

Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to Cairo airport for final departure.