Private Tour to Cave Church Of Saint Simon And Garbage City

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Cairo

  Starts with Pickup from your hotel By your tour guide to Start your tour

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Cave Church

  At the first you will visit to the Cave Church in Egypt which is one of the largest churches in the country, a place where 70,000-plus Christians gather every week to worship and praise Jesus -- a place that's home to one of the world's oldest Christian communities. The cave, also known as the Monastery of Saint Simon, is located in the Mokattam mountain in southeastern Cairo, in an area known as "Garbage City" due to the large population of garbage collectors, or Zabbaleen, that live there.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 3

  The Zabbaleen are descendants of farmers who started migrating from Upper Egypt to Cairo in the 1940s. Fleeing poor harvests and poverty they came to the city looking for work and set-up makeshift settlements around the city. Initially, they stuck to their tradition of raising pigs, goats, chickens and other animals, but eventually found collecting and sorting of waste produced by the city residents more profitable. The Zabbaleen sort through household garbage, salvaging and selling things of value, while the organic waste provides an excellent source of food for their animals. In fact, this arrangement worked so well, that successive waves of migrants came from Upper Egypt to live and work in the newly founded garbage villages of Cairo.

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 4
  Cairo

  At the end of the Tour, you will be transferred back to your Hotel.

  1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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