Explore Egypt
From the capital's great museums to the silence of the Western Desert — explore Egypt region by region.
Pyramids, great museums and a thousand minarets
Every journey to Egypt begins in Cairo. On the edge of the desert stand the pyramids of Giza and the Step Pyramid of Saqqara; in the city, the new Grand Egyptian Museum presents the treasure of Tutankhamun, while Islamic and Coptic Cairo keep mosques, churches and bazaars that…
Egypt’s Mediterranean city
Founded by Alexander the Great and capital of the Ptolemies, Alexandria looks out over the Mediterranean with a character all its own. Its Graeco-Roman catacombs, the great modern library and the citadel built where the ancient lighthouse once stood make a rich day away from Cairo.
The Nile valley of temples and pharaohs
Between Luxor and Aswan the Nile flows past the greatest temples of ancient Egypt. Ancient Thebes, today Luxor, keeps Karnak, Luxor Temple and the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings; upstream, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae lead to Aswan, gateway to the colossi of Abu Simbel.
The White Desert, Fayoum and Siwa
West of the Nile lies another Egypt: the chalk sculptures of the White Desert and the dark hills of the Black Desert, the green Fayoum with its lakes and the UNESCO Valley of the Whales, the ancient oases of Bahariya, Dakhla and Kharga, and Siwa, on the edge…
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