Day 1: Arrival Cairo

Arrival in Land of Pharaohs. At Cairo International airport you will be welcomed and assisted through immigration and customs by Santa Maria Tours representative, then escorted to your hotel.  Overnight in your Hotel in Cairo.

Day 2: Cairo / Farma

Today we will drive North from Cairo to visit Farma ( mid-way between El Arish and present day Port Said), which is the first step for the Holy Family in Egypt. According to the sources of the Coptic Church documented by Pope Theophilus, and recorded in the Coptic Senexarium the Holy Family proceeded from Bethlehem to Gaza, and then to El-Zaraniq (Know as Floussiat), 37 km west of El Arish, then they threaded their way until they reached Farma. Proceed to Ismailia. Lunch, continue to Tell Basta. Here Jesus Christ asked Virgin Mary water to drink, she went requesting water from the people in the city but they refused to give her, she returned back crying when the lord Jesus wiping her pure tears, and drawing a circle on the ground, suddenly purely water spring appears. The holy family drank and the Virgin Mary washed his clothes in it. Since 1970 and up till now, the archaeological excavations in Zagzig University working in Basta Hill under supervision of Dr. Mohamed Amr Mohamed Selim, the head of ancient civilization of the higher Institute for Near East, and who confirmed the presence of the Holy spring, Dr. Mofeed Shehab also confirmed that this spring is the spring which Jesus Christ drinking from it.
After we drive towards Belbeis, where the Holy Family rested there in the shade of a tree which came to be called "The Virgin Mary's Tree". Continue to Mostorod (which came to be called, in those days ‘’Al-Mahamma’’) it means the ‘’Bathing Place’’, a name given to the town because the Virgin Mary Bathed the Christ Child and washed his clothes. It is worthy of note that, on their way back to Palestine, the Holy Family stopped once more at Mostorod and this time, caused a spring to gush from the earth which still flows to the present days. Back to Cairo and Overnight. (Breakfast, Lunch)

Day 3: Cairo / Samannoud / Sakha

After Breakfast. Drive to Samannoud, visiting the El Shaheed (Martyr) Abanoub Church also visit a large granite trough which, according to local belief, was used by the Virgin for kneading dough and a water-well which the Christ Child himself hallowed. Drive to Sakha the Coptic name of the town "Pekha-Issus" means "the foot of Jesus", for the holy Child's foot-print was marked here, in bas-relief on a rock. The rock was preserved, but hidden for centuries for fear of robbery, and only unearthed again 13 years ago. Back to Cairo. Overnight in Cairo. (Breakfast)

Day 4: Cairo / Wadi El Natrun

 Today we will discover the oldest part of the city, known as Coptic Cairo, originally a Roman fortress town called ‘’Babylon”. Visit the hanging Church (El Muallaqa) one of the oldest churches in Egypt and the history of a church dates to the 3rd century A.D where the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus took refuge, after visit Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church, also known as Abu Serga dating back to the 4th century A.D.Visit sites like Synagogue of Beni Ezra. Drive towards Maadi. In the quarter of Maadi we will visit the Church of the Holly Virgin Mary. Where the Holy Family sought refuge from persecution. On 12th March 1976, a Holy Bible was found floating in the Nile at Maadi miraculously undamaged, it was open at the chapter Isaiah 19:25 containing the phrase: `Blessed be Egypt my people’.

Day 7: Cairo / El Menya

After breakfast we will visit the most meaningful destination of all in the land of Egypt, the place where there would be "an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt". The Monastery of Al-Muharraq nestles against the western foothills of the Mountain. It was built around the area where the Holy Family remained just over six months. Their time was spent mainly in a cave which became, in the Coptic era, the altar of the Church of Virgin Mary, built at the western end of the Monastery compound, the altar stone was the resting place of the Child Jesus during the months He dwelt there.
The whole area the Monastery and its surroundings is redolent of the Coptic Christian ethos. So hallowed are its intimations, that the Copts of Egypt named it the Second Bethlehem.
It was here, at the very spot where Al-Muharraq Monastery stands, that the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said "Arise, and take the young Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they are dead which sought the young Child's life" (Mattew 2:20 & 21).  After we will visit Deir el-A'dra - Gabal Dronka (Virgin Mary Monastry at mountain Dronka) the monastry is built in the mountain where there is a cave where the Holy Family stayed for a month (during the Nile flood) before heading back to their homeland on a boat.Procced towards Assiut. Check in our hotel. Overnight in Assiut. . (Breakfast)

Day 9: Assiut / Cairo

What’s included?

1. Meet & Assist upon arrival and departure.
2. 08 night accommodations (B.B bases) in Cairo.
3. 01 night accommodation (B.B bases) in Menya.
4. 01night accommodation (B.B bases) in Assiut.
5. 01 night accommodations (B.B bases) in Assiut.
6. All the transfers as mentioned in the program by Private A/C coaches.
7. All sightseeing as mentioned in the program.
8. All entrance fees during sightseeing & with professional Egyptology English speaking guide
9. All service charge & taxes.
10. Breakfast daily, 1 lunch.
11. Entry Visa to Egypt.
12. All airport taxes, transfer and luggage assistance.

Holiday Not include:

1. Any optional tours not mentioned in the Itinerary.
2. Drinks and any personal expenses.
3. Guide & assistant tip.
4. International air tickets.
5. Optional visits.