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Religious Program B
 Cairo: 8 Days / 7 Nights
Cairo - Religious trips - Cairo
Day 1: ARRIVE at Cairo Airport , assist thru immigration and customs formalities  ,and transfer by AC coach or limo to your hotel  for overnight.

Day 2: Early after breakfast, you start your journey with a visit to Mostorod or El Mahamma, means the bathing place ,cos Virgin Mary bathed the Christ Child and qashed his clothes and here Jesus caused a spring to flow, which the Holy Family used , and where a church now stands,  the well still exists , from Mostorod , The Holy Family went to Belbeis ancient Philippos , they rested there in the shade of a tree which came to be called The Virgin Mary's Tree. Back to your hotel and overnight.

Day 3: You start the day heading to Meniet Sammannoud where the local population received them with a kindnedd and hospitality that earned them deserved blessing. There is in Samannoud to this day a large granite through which according to local belief was used by the virgin Mary for kneading dough and a water-well which the Christ Child Himself hallowed.
Continue the way to the north west to Sakha means the foot print 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 your hotel and overnight.

Day 4: After breakfast , we drive toward Matareya where the Virgin Mary Tree still stands to this day,for the Family is believed to have rested in its shade. Here too the Infant Jesus caused water to flow from a spring, from which He drank and blessed and in which The Virgin Mary washed His clothes , She poured the washing water on to the ground , and from that spot the fragrant balsam plant blossomed ,besides the healing and pain-smoothing properties of this balm, our next stop is Zeitoun , a little Chapel where The Virgin Mary appeared over the domes and accompanied by splendid miracles .
After lunch we visit Old Cairo , where  they stayed in a cave which is now a part of St Sergios Church , then they moved south to Maady where the boarded a sailing boat which carried them up the Nile towards southern Egypt.
The stone steps leading down to the River's bank, and believed to have been used by the Holy Family are accessible to pilgrims through the Curch courtyard.

Day 5: Early after breakfast and Check out, today your visit to the south as the sail-boat docked at the village of Deir Al Garnous . Outside the western wall of the Church of Virgin Mary there a deep well is believed to have provided the Holy Family with the water they needed, then you will continue to Beni Mazarthen Gabal el Tair (Bird mountain , the Holy Family rested in the cave which is now located inside the ancient church there
Jesus stretched His little hand to hold back a rock which was about to detach itself from the mountain-side and fall upon them .The imprint of his palm is still visible
Check in at hotel , dinner and overnight.

Day 6: Early after breakfast, Check out and commence your journey for the next step to Qussqam here, the recorded events testify that the townsfolk were infuriated when the stone statue of their local deity cracked and fell and evicted the Holy Family from the town. And continue to Al-Muharraq monastery , where the Holy Family remained over six months, Their time was spent mainly in a cave which became the altar of the Church of Virgin Mary , the altar stone was the resting place of the Chid Jesus during the months He dwelt there This monastery and its surroundings is redolent of the Coptic Christian ethos.So halloed are its intimations that the Copts of Egypt named it the Second Bethlehem.
Its was here at the very spot where Al-Muhararraq Monastery stands, that the Angel 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" and Dronka Monastery. return to Cairo for Check in and dinner, overnight.
 
Day 7: After breakfast visit the Pyramids and the Egyptian museum and over night .
Day 8: After breakfast free and check out and final transfer to the airport.
 
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