Half-Day Trip to Dahshur and Meidum Pyramids

Your half-day tour in Cairo starts in the morning when one of Cairo Top Tours' expert guides will be waiting for you at your hotel in Cairo or Giza to take you in a private air-conditioned car to explore Cairo.

The first step on your tour will be the Pyramid of Menes, the first king of the Fourth Dynasty (circa 2613-2589 BC). What we see today is very different from the original monument, which was initially built as a step pyramid and later became a full pyramid with polished sides. the pyramid was built in three stages. in the first stage, Snefer began to build a step pyramid consisting of seven terraces with a height of 65 m. In the second stage, he expanded the construction before its completion in its first stage to become an eight-tiered step pyramid until its height reached 85 m and the length of the base 120.75 meters. Next, Sneferu went to Dahshur and built two pyramids known as the Curved Pyramid and the Red Pyramid and then transformed the eight-level step pyramid of Meidum into a full pyramid with a height of between 92 and 95 meters and a base length of 144 meters, which is the third stage.

After that we will explore together the archaeological village of Dahshur, as Dahshur tells the story of the development of Egyptian architecture, and despite its historical importance, it has a picturesque nature and a seasonal pond where papyrus grows and tourists come to see it, and migratory birds, if these cultural and natural resources made the reason for its success and put it in the eighth place among the most beautiful tourist villages in the world and a destination for rural tourism, according to the standards of the World Tourism Organization.

At the end of the tour, Your knowledgeable tour guide will take you back to your hotel.