Day Trips4.5(35)· Cairo, Egypt

Unusual 4 hours Tour Garbage & City of the Dead, St Simone church

1 / 5
Duration3-4h
CancellationFree 24h before

The experience

Overview

In this tour you will explore an area known as "Garbage City, " which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam Hill on the outskirts of Cairo, and inhabited by the Coptic Christians, Within the Garbage City seven churches and chapels are hidden within a series of caves. While walking the chaotic streets of Garbage City, you will st Simone or the cave church,enjoy the beautiful sculptures made very recently and describes the holy Family journey to Egypt, & then you will explore the City of the Dead, where the deceased take up residency among the living.

How this compares

Cairo · 854 Day Trips · typical ~4,782 EGP · 2,354 EGP · good value

Why this one

Highlights

  • ✦Wheelchair accessible

The fine print

What's included

  • ✓Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Cairo or Giza
  • ✓professional Egyptologist guide
  • ✓private Air conditioning car
  • ✓Bottle of water for each person
  • ✕Gratuities
  • ✕Private transportation

Stop by stop

Itinerary

  1. 1
    Cairo
  2. 2
    Mansheya Nasir
  3. 3
    Cave Church
  4. 4
    City of the Dead (Northern Cemetery)

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

How long is this experience?
3-4h
Can I cancel my booking?
Yes — you can cancel free of charge up to 24 hours before it starts.
What's included?
Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Cairo or Giza · professional Egyptologist guide · private Air conditioning car · Bottle of water for each person

What travellers say

Reviews (35)

4.5
★★★★★
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francesco_c
★★★★★
Mar 2024

Guida molto cortese e competente, tour interessante, alcune informazioni aggiuntive utile vedere filmati su YouTube prima dell’esperienza

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Ana
★★★★★
Mar 2026

The tour is highly recommended. Abdul is an excellent guide. He provides interesting information about the history of Egypt and the locations visited. He gave us a lot of useful tips for other planned visits and our stay in Cairo.

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Mary_B
★★★★★
Jan 2026

I loved our guide, he was so knowledgeable, informative and such a nice person, Hitham was definitely the best guide we have had to date in Egypt and made this tour memorable, loved our time. Would highly recommend doing any tour with him, even though we were doing garbage city his knowledge on Alexandria, pyramids and history surpassed the actual guides we had for those tours and we learned more about those places by just chatting to him than when we actually visited. Thank you Hitham you are the best

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Smaranda_W
★★★★★
Dec 2025

You get to see parts of Cairo that you wouldn’t venture into by yourself. There were just two of us on the tour and our guide Haitham and the driver were very accommodating. Haitham is very knowledgeable and was able to answer all our questions.

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Markus_W
★★★
Jul 2024

The pickup was on time and the guide and driver were very friendly. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to St Simone Church through garbage city. However, the visit to City of the Dead was very disappointing, consisting of a 15-minute walk on the fringe of City of the Dead and not in one of the more interesting parts of it. My assumption was that we would go and see another part of it when we went back to the car, but they said that it was it and wanted to take me to a cotton, perfume or papyrus shop. They were kind to drop me off at a location different to the hotel as I wanted to go and see someth

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Kate_V
★
Mar 2024

This four hour tour was actually about an hour and a half. I did this Dan tour with another company years ago and it was fabulous!! Really got to learn a lot, see garbage city from different perspectives, drive through the city if the dead where people revitalized it. This tour was a joke. 1.5 hours, mostly spent driving and the “tour” of the city if the dead was just literally pulling over on the highway to look at it. Garbage city was driving through quickly to and from the caves, no stopping, nothing. Very, very disappointing.

2,354 EGP≈ $43/ per person
4.5(35)verified reviews
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