Upon arrival to Cairo airport , our staff will meet, assist and Transfer to your Hotel in Cairo check in and Overnight.

Cairo

After breakfast transfer from your hotel by A/C car (around 03 hours) to Wadi El Natroun with your Egyptologist tour guide visiting: *Wadi el Natron: The Holy Family continued their flight, went further west and crossed the Nile. Visiting Wadi el Natron. In Wadi Al- Natron is a village called Al-Homra, before reaching Wadi Al-Natron, the Holy Family passed by this desert village where the infant Jesus caused a well to be opened in the ground. This sweet water well, which is called unto today “Bir Mariam” or (Mary’s well), is incredibly located among lakes saturated with the natron salt. The well had been neglected for many years but is now being restored. In their heyday in the 5th and 6th centuries, the many monasteries of the Wadi Al-Natrun sustained thousands of monks. Today the monasteries near each other – and occupied with monks and hermits, have remained. These are the monasteries of St. Bishoy, Al-Syrian and Al -Baramous. Then return back to Cairo and overnight (B) Read more

Cairo

After breakfast transfer from hotel start your Full day tour with your Egyptologist tour guide visiting: * Church of Abu Serga –Old Cairo: . (To be hidden from the eyes of King Herod’s soldiers, the Holy Family lived in a cave in Old Cairo for three months before they were forced to change their plans and leave the cave to Maadi. Inside the cave is a rock which is said to have been stepped on, and thus blessed, by Jesus. The well from which the Holy Family drank is well kept by the church. The place where this church is located is the only place the Holy Family came across twice, that is, on their flight in and out of Egypt. Empress Helena then decided to build a church above the church of the cave). * Church of Virgin Mary - Maadi The Holy Family embarked here in order to escape from the pursuing soldiers of Herod. . The church of Maadi boasts important miracles. On Friday of March 12, 1976, a deacon found a Holy Bible floating on the water. It was of course salvaged immediately and to people’s surprise, the Bible was open to the Chapter 19 of Isaiah, which reads “Blessed be Egypt my people.” The Bible now is on display in a reliquary of the church. Virgin Mary’s Tree at Mataryea. In their flight to Egypt, the Holy Family always settled next to a spring. Virgin Mary washed her garments, sprinkling the used water on the ground, from which a balsam tree, now known as Virgin’s Tree, sprouted and continues to receive visitors to this day. The well is still full of water. Around the well, there is something akin to a cave, was recently built to preserve this holy place After these two marvelous visits you will be transferred back to your hotel and overnight (B) Read more

Cairo

After breakfast transfer to Cairo airport to travel to Assuit to visit: * DAYR AL-MUHARRAQ The monastery of the Holy Virgin of al–Muharraq lies at the foot of Qusqam Hill, 327 kilometers south of Cairo. This monastery is unquestionably the most prominent location in the Holy Family’s itinerary. According to tradition, this is the place that the Holy Family stayed for six months and five days. The location of the monastery is roughly the geographical center of the African Egypt. The holiest place in the monastery is the Church of the Holy Virgin whose altar is believed to be consecrated in the first century A.D making it the first church in the world. It has a beautiful collection of the icons from the 18th and 19th century.. Dayr al-Muharraq is surrounded by a wall modeled after the one of Jerusalem.. For Copts, pilgrimage to this monastery is equal to that of Jerusalem. * DRUNKA: Approximately 50 kilometers south of Dayr al-Muharraq , lies the massive monastic complex of Dayr Durunka. In the convent there is a large cave where according to tradition, the Holy Family has stayed before taking a boat northward to return to the Holy Land. The cave, probably once a pharaonic quarry, attracts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims yearly, especially during the festival of the Holy Virgin in August. Many come after the recurrent apparitions of the Holy Virgin in the past decades Then transfer to Assuit airport to travel back to Cairo and overnight (B) Read more

Cairo

Check out after breakfast, Travel to Saint Catherine a/c Van (Takes around 6 hours), upon arrival check in, dinner and overnight. (B & D) Optional: Climb Mountain Sinai before sunrise.

St. Catherine

Check out after Breakfast, visit Saint Catherine's Monastery (if the Monastery open) *St. Catherine’s monastery Located at the base of Mount Sinai, believed to be the same Mount Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt is one of Christianity’s greatest ancient treasures. It is home to one of the oldest Christian churches still in use: the Chapel of the Burning Bush. It is also home to one of Christianity’s most venerable library collections. and then transfer back to Cairo, upon arrival check in & overnight. (B) Read more

Cairo

Check out after breakfast, Transfer to Cairo Airport for Final Departure (Please advise flight details), (B)