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5-Hour Trip from Cairo to the Cave Church at Mokattam Mountain

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Visit the Cave Church (St. Simon the Tanner Monastery) in El Mokattam Mountain on this private tour from Cairo. Travel through the so-called "Garbage City," home to the mostly-Coptic Zabbaleen trash collectors, learn how the churches were carved into the rock, and visit a Virgin Mary apparition.

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Visit the Cave Church (St. Simon the Tanner Monastery) in El Mokattam Mountain. Travel through the "Garbage City," learn about the churches carved into the rock, and visit a Virgin Mary apparition site.

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