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Private Wadi El Natrun Coptic Monasteries Tour from Cairo
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Cairo
Important Information
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Wheelchair accessible
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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About 100 km northwest of Cairo, in a desert depression off the road to Alexandria, sit four of the oldest working monasteries on earth.
Wadi El Natrun has been a center of Christian monastic life since the 4th century, when hermits came out to the desert to escape Roman persecution and founded a way of life that shaped monasticism worldwide. On this private day tour your guide takes you into the surviving monasteries, with their fortress walls, ancient churches, and monks who still live and pray there today. You see frescoes, relics, and keeps built to withstand raiders, all still in use after 1,600 years.
It is a calm, reflective day, about 6 hours with the desert drive included.
Ideal ...
Highlights
6 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 5 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
6 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 5 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Bottled water
All Service charges & taxes
Hotel pickup and drop-off in private air-conditioned vehicle (Cairo hotels)
Licensed Egyptologist guide with knowledge of Coptic history
All entrance fees to the Wadi El Natrun monasteries
Gratuities for guide and driver (suggested $10-15 USD per traveler, optional)
Lunch, beverages beyond bottled water, personal expenses, and anything not listed as included
You enter the Monastery of St. Bishoy through thick mudbrick walls into a quiet world of churches, gardens, and a tall stone keep where monks once sheltered from desert raiders. Founded in the 4th century, it still holds the relics of St. Bishoy and a community of monks who live here today. Your guide explains the rhythms of monastic life and the wall paintings inside the old church. The hush of the place, broken only by chanting, is the point.
1 hour and 30 minutes
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A short drive brings you to Deir al-Suryan, the Syrian Monastery, named for the Syrian monks who once lived here. Inside, the Church of the Holy Virgin holds frescoes and a carved wooden door more than a thousand years old, and an ancient tree said to have sprung from a saint's staff still grows in the courtyard. Your guide walks you through the layers of Coptic and Syriac heritage preserved here. It is one of the best-kept of the Wadi's monasteries, still active and welcoming.
1 hour and 30 minutes
Private Wadi El Natrun Coptic Monasteries Tour from Cairo
(1) Reviews
Cairo
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About 100 km northwest of Cairo, in a desert depression off the road to Alexandria, sit four of the oldest working monasteries on earth.
Wadi El Natrun has been a center of Christian monastic life since the 4th century, when hermits came out to the desert to escape Roman persecution and founded a way of life that shaped monasticism worldwide. On this private day tour your guide takes you into the surviving monasteries, with their fortress walls, ancient churches, and monks who still live and pray there today. You see frescoes, relics, and keeps built to withstand raiders, all still in use after 1,600 years.
It is a calm, reflective day, about 6 hours with the desert drive included.
Ideal ...
Highlights
6 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 5 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
6 hours
Offered in German (Deutsch) & 5 Others
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Bottled water
All Service charges & taxes
Hotel pickup and drop-off in private air-conditioned vehicle (Cairo hotels)
Licensed Egyptologist guide with knowledge of Coptic history
All entrance fees to the Wadi El Natrun monasteries
Gratuities for guide and driver (suggested $10-15 USD per traveler, optional)
Lunch, beverages beyond bottled water, personal expenses, and anything not listed as included