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Egypt OverviewEgypt 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. Capital: Cairo Population: 81,713,000 Area: 1,001,450 km² Density: 81.59 inhabitants per km² Currency: EGP Destinations: 30 |
Egypt Top Destinations
  2. Cairo Situated on the River Nile, Cairo is famous for its own history - preserved in the fabulous medieval Islamic city and in Old Cairo - and... map 3. Hurghada Hurghada is a resort town on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt. Most of the hotels along the Red Sea are self-contained resorts, ideal for... map 4. Luxor Luxor is the premier travel destination in Upper (southern) Egypt and the Nile Valley. The dynastic and religious capital of Middle Kingdom... map 5. Marsa Alam (bottom) Until very recently, Marsa Alam was a small fishing village in Egypt, on the west coast of the Red Sea. However, it has rapidly... map 6. Taba History Taba (Arabic: طابا), is a small Egyptian village near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. Taba is the location of Egypt's... map 7. Dahab . Dahab (دهب) is a small town situated on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Formerly a Bedouin fishing village,... map 8. Alexandria Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city and the country's window on the Mediterranean Sea, is a faded shade of its former glorious... map |  11. Nuweiba : نويبع ) is a coastal town in the eastern part of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. It is located at around... map12. Soma Bay Soma Bay is a coastal resort on the Red Sea in Egypt, 45 kilometers south of Hurghada International Airport. The ten million square meters,... map13. Ain Soukhna map15. Marsa Matruh Marsa Matruh (Arabic مرسى مطروح [Marsā Maṭrūḥ]) (known in Ptolemaic and Byzantine times as Paraitonion... map 16. Port Said : Site of PortSaid (top). Port Said (Arabic بورسعيد, transliterated ) is a northeastern Egyptian city near the Suez Canal, with an... map17. Safaga (center). Port Safaga, also known as Bur Safaga and Safaga (Arabic: سفاجا), is a town in Egypt, on the coast of the Red Sea, located... map18. St Catherine map 19. Abu Simbel Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt was saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, growing behind the Aswan Dam, in a massive archaeological rescue... map20. Al Kharga Oasis map |
