St. Anthony Monastery is the oldest life Coptic Orthodox monastery in the world, was built in the middle of the desert, in the fourth century With Sjptours you will enjoy visiting the oldest church, the garden, the water creek, and the panorama of the monastery. You can get on the steps up the mountain to the cave where Sant Anthony used to live ( optional without payment ). A monk will join us in the monastery to explain about the numbers and jobs of the monks They normally explain about the liturgy of the orthodox Coptic churches. I will pick you up from your hotel wherever you stay, in an air-conditioning car to the Monastery.
Duration: 6 hours
lunch
from Hurghada or Cairo
Limousine, Van, big bus
Pickup included
Our tour guide will com to your hotel and pick you up , then you will have a ride for about 3 hours on the road direction of the North towards the Monastery . Our tour guide will explain about the history of the monastery and the Christianity in Egypt .
Our tour guide will take you to the monastery . First , you will meet one of the monks who will go around inside the monastery , in side the old church , around the water creek that comes from the mountain and still running for thousand of years. Our tour guide will take you around to watch the panorama of the monastery .
Our tour guide will take you to the mountain where st. Anthony lived in a cave in the middle of the mountain. You can have a chance to go up on the steps till the cave of St.Anthoney . It takes about one hour to climb the steps up ( which about 1200 steps to the cave ) you may take 30 minutes to go down the steps. Going up to the cave according to the desire of our clients, Worth to mention that the tour guide give our clients the free time to climb the steps and he stays in the foot of the mountain.
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 10 minutes before departure time.
In front of customer hotel, arranged with the clients at least a day in advance. We always pick up customers from their hotel wherever they are staying .
Hotel name, room number after check in and copy of passport for permission paper work ( needed for tourism room management in Egypt)