Customizable Private Shopping Tour from Cairo and Giza with lunch
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Giza
Discover hidden Cairo and Giza neighborhoods, explore unique shops, and dive into local Egyptian culture with a customizable private shopping tour.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Giza - Embark on an extraordinary adventure to visit an Egyptian governmental shopping market.

Your expert guide will pick you up from your accommodation place heading to Egyptian market , sharing fascinating insights into ancient Egyptian history.

First stop, will be by a Papyrus institute, to see how ancient Egyptians are the first ones all over the world how manufacture papers, (Not Chinese), from the stem of the fresh papyrus plants, which still grows on both sides of the Nile River, and to see how they dried it in a very primitive compressor until it become at the end a strong papyrus rolls. you will see as well how ancient Egyptians used mineral stones to get there colors, like carbon, malachite, hematite, laps lazily and turquoise, those mineral colors can stand for thousands of years, like the original ones inside the Egyptian museum.

Egyptian Papyrus papers is part of the Egyptian culture, you will never see it on other place except Egypt.

  • Giza - After, you will visit, a governmental, pure essential aromatherapy oils factory, to know how Ancient Egyptians used those pure oils as a medicine to heal different diseases, for aromatherapy, and you will have a chance to try them.

Recently, Egyptian government find a big papyri, wrote in in many recopies and formulas in Hieroglyphic language, it shows how they squeezed different kinds of plants and flowers to get different pure oils, used to heal different diseases, some pure oils were used to heal high or low blood pressure, back or bone pain, Flu, facial musk,grow hair, massage and more, you will smell and try all of them.

At the same place, there is a workshop for making Pyrex glasses using fire, all handmade craft, and how they get colored.

  • Giza - Embark a governmental gold soak or bazzar, with a big collection of ancient golden amulets (18 Carat), silver amulets and a big collection of Egyptian souvenirs.
    All the prices is labeled, to make sure that it is a governmental trusted place with a very good quality and fair prices.

Egypt was land of gold since 3000 BC. and there are still many gold minds in Egypt, it is a very old craftsmanship until nowadays.

By this stop, you will have a chance to visit one of the best workshops for Jewelry artifacts, and you will see how you can write your name using Hieroglyphic language on a Chartoch (The Egyptian identity), it is one of the most famous Egyptian souvenirs, and there are a big collection of Egyptian golden amulets like scarabs, key of life, Sphinx, blue eye of God Horus and many other golden or silver symbols with many styles and shapes, as well as there are many others Egyptian souvenirs.

  • Giza - Egyptian cotton is one of the best ones all over the world, cotton plant grows on both sides of the Nile River, and Egypt import the cotton products to different countries.

Visit an Egyptian cotton Center, all the products are 100% Egyptian cotton like bed sheets, towels, blankets, scarfs and different kind of clothes for men and for ladies.

At the end of the tour, you will try Egyptian traditional lunch, Falafel sandwiches, and then back safely to your hotel.

What's Included
  • Transportation by air-conditioned vehicle
  • Egyptian traditional lunch, Falafel sandwiches
  • Qualified guide
  • Beverages during the tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

No trip to any country is complete without experiencing local lifestyle, learning about local culture and people. In this experience we combine several experiences: We will have exploratory adventure to locals world to discover hidden neighborhoods inaccessible to tourists (Not fake local like touristic downtown or khan) to dive in locals-only life scene and culture, explore unique shops, local Egyptian markets and we will have endless stops to try to cover and learn about not just some but all types of unique traditional local Egyptian products

Location
Giza
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Andrew69usa
Feb 6, 2024
Giza Pyramids and surrounding area - Great trip. Cairo is a chaotic atmosphere but having Ahmed there to navigate the experience helped so much. He was informative, knowledgeable, and willing to tailor the trip to suit people's needs. I highly recommend him.
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