Cave Church, Garbage City & the City of the Dead in Cairo

Nile Empire tourist guide will pick you from your hotel and start your day by visiting The Famous Cave Church of St. Simon in Cairo There are seven cave churches carved into the nearby Mokattam Mountain. The Monastery of St. Simon “The Tanner” is the largest in Egypt and the Middle East and has an amphitheater with a seating capacity of 20,000. It is worth a visit if you are interested in seeing something different in Egypt.

Then, passing by the Garbage City in Cairo, where it’s located in a very local neighborhood that is called “Manshiyat Naser”, or “Garbage City in Cairo” as it’s better known as, a slum settlement located to the southeast of Cairo. Its inhabitants are affectionately known as “Garbage People”, because they have been sustaining themselves for decades as Cairo’s unofficial sanitation crew.

The Garbage People, comprising mostly Coptic Christians, first immigrated to Cairo in the 1930s in search of big city dreams and land under their feet. Being very poor, and without a solid plan, they got by whatever way they could: living in makeshift housing and recycling the city’s compostable waste products by feeding it to their pigs.

Then passing through The City of the Dead, which is an Islamic necropolis and cemetery below the Mokattam Hills in southeastern Cairo. Have lunch in a local restaurant and then head back to your hotel.