Egypt Travel Guide

Overview

Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world's most famous monuments, including the Giza pyramid complex, the Great Sphinx and the ancient artifacts of Luxor dating back thousands of years.

Altough focus of most tourist visits remains the great monuments of the Nile Valley, possibilities for Egyptian travel also includes snorkelling and diving along the Red Sea coast. Other options include camel trips into the mountains of Sinai, tours to remote oases or visits to the Coptic monasteries of the Eastern Desert.

Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa. The vast majority of its estimated 78 million people (2007) live near the banks of the Nile River. Apart from the Nile Valley, the rest of Egypt's landscape is a sandy desert. The winds can create sand dunes over one hundred feet high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara Desert and of the Libyan Desert.