Start your tour with pickup from cairo airport and head for the Giza Plateau, where the three pyramids rise into the sky. With your Egyptologist guide, awe at these immense ancient burial tombs and learn how they were built for the three pharaohs of Khufu, Chephren, and Menkaure over 4,600 years ago. Hear revealing facts about their construction, and see the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the biggest of the three, close up. Learn how it was built from 2.3 million giant stone blocks, and took 20 years or more to complete. If you'd like, your guide can arrange a visit inside the pyramid for an additional charge.
View the Great Sphinx, the enigmatic, human-headed statue carved from a single limestone ridge, and wander around the Valley Temple, whose halls were probably used for pharaonic mummification. Head to a viewpoint for sweeping panoramas of all three pyramids,
