Garbage City Tour: Explore Coptic Cave Churches

Embark on a unique 4-hour tour of Garbage City and the City of the Dead in Cairo. Discover the hidden churches and chapels within the slum settlement of Garbage City, visit the beautiful St. Simone Church, and explore the fascinating City of the Dead where the deceased coexist with the living.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Cairo - pick you up from or drop you off to your hotel in Giza or Cairo
  • Mansheya Nasir - The village is notable for having nearly every space of it covered in garbage, including the streets and rooftops of the settlement. an area known as “Garbage City, “ which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam Hill on the outskirts of Cairo, and…
What's Included
  • Professional Egyptologist guide
  • Complimentary bottle of water per person
  • Convenient hotel pick-up and drop-off in Cairo/Giza
  • Travel in comfort with a private air-conditioned car
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Private transportation
Additional Information

In this tour you will explore an area known as ‘Garbage City, ‘ which is a slum settlement at the base of Mokattam Hill on the outskirts of Cairo, and inhabited by the Coptic Christians, Within the Garbage City seven churches and chapels are hidden within a series of caves. While walking the chaotic streets of Garbage City, you will st Simone or the…

Location
Cairo
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Xaroc2026
Mar 7, 2026
We recommend it - Highly recommended. Abdul has been a good guide and has given us explanations to everything we have asked
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Ana
Mar 6, 2026
Special experience - The tour is highly recommended. Abdul is an excellent guide. He provides interesting information about the history of Egypt and the locations visited. He gave us a lot of useful tips for other planned visits and our stay in Cairo.
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Amandine_b
Jan 31, 2026
Go ahead with your eyes closed! - We had a great morning with Haitham. The tour was very complete. We were picked up on time right outside our hotel. Haitham was very accommodating on the tour, he adapted to our desires. He gave us a lot of information about what we were observing. PS: thank you again for the candles;)
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Mary_b
Jan 7, 2026
Highly recommend, Hitham is an amazing guide - I loved our guide, he was so knowledgeable, informative and such a nice person, Hitham was definitely the best guide we have had to date in Egypt and made this tour memorable, loved our time. Would highly recommend doing any tour with him, even though we were doing garbage city his knowledge on Alexandria, pyramids and history surpassed the actual guides we had for those tours and we learned more about those places by just chatting to him than when we actually visited. Thank you Hitham you are the best
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Smaranda_w
Dec 20, 2025
You get to see parts of... - You get to see parts of Cairo that you wouldn’t venture into by yourself. There were just two of us on the tour and our guide Haitham and the driver were very accommodating. Haitham is very knowledgeable and was able to answer all our questions.
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Robinmt9230ib
Nov 6, 2025
For Those Seeking Something Different - Abdullah was friendly, courteous and ON TIME. Garbage City is a unique spot not on everyone's radar, but it is fascinating. We also visited the Cave Church and drive through the City of the Dead. Visited a perfumery and a papyrus museum, all were interesting in their own right. I would recommend this tour if you seek the unusual.
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M547emelenas
Sep 23, 2025
Great tour - The guide was amazing and is such an interesting tour! He had lot of fun and we went through the garbage city inside the car. Highly recommend it!
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456estefan_as
Sep 4, 2025
A tour of another Cairo - The tour with Tamer was excellent. He explained all the historical parts of the places we visited, but also the monuments we passed along the way. In the city of the dead we went down to see the tomb of a prince and it was quite interesting to see the architecture and how they are restoring the place. Thanks, Tamer!
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Chris
Aug 22, 2025
Great tour overall - The tour was very interesting, and we really enjoyed the tour as a family... Our tour guide (and driver) were both fantastic. But!!!! .... we were charged an extra 750egp for something we thought we had already paid for by paying for the tour. Especially as we had already paid over £100 for the actual tour. And as a result left a bitter feeling about this tour which was a true shame as it was a great trip...
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Victor_c
Aug 15, 2025
Nice experience - Nice experience outside of what are the normal Cairo tours, take you to see the trash neighborhood without getting out of the car, which is also appreciated as the smell is very bad. Regarding the neighborhood of the dead very good explanations but I wish we could have been put more inside the neighborhood since they only show you the graves and houses outside the city of the dead. The visit of the church is very beautiful. Finally our tour lasted 2 1/2 hours and not 4, but in general it is a good experience if you want something different.
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up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).