Cairo
Northern Egypt
A city of layers — grand hotels, medieval lanes and the world's greatest collections of pharaonic art.
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Giza Plateau
Northern Egypt
The last surviving wonder of the ancient world, best met privately at first light before the heat and the crowds.
Saqqara & Memphis
South of Giza
The Step Pyramid, silent mastabas and the colossus of Ramses — four thousand years of memory south of Cairo.
Grand Egyptian Museum
Northern Egypt
The pharaonic collection in a single building, with the Tutankhamun gallery shown whole for the first time.
Islamic Cairo & Khan el-Khalili
Northern Egypt
Mosques, madrasas and a bazaar that has traded on the same street for a thousand years.
Coptic Cairo
Northern Egypt
Narrow lanes above Roman Babylon: the Hanging Church, a synagogue and one of the oldest churches on earth.
Luxor & Ancient Thebes
Southern Egypt
The world's richest open-air museum: two great temple complexes on the east bank and the royal tombs across the river.
Valley of the Kings & Queens
Southern Egypt
Painted tombs cut into the Theban hills, from Tutankhamun's corridor to the blue chamber of Nefertari.
Edfu
Southern Egypt
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, raised to the falcon god Horus and reached by boat on a dahabiya sailing.
Esna
Southern Egypt
The lock where sailing boats wait for the water to change, and the last sight of the modern world upstream.
Sharm El Sheikh
Sinai, Northeastern Egypt
Coral reefs, clear Red Sea water and the Sinai mountains — an easy, sun-filled close to any journey. Sinai is in the Asian part of Egypt.
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Kom Ombo
Southern Egypt
A double temple to the falcon and the crocodile, built on a promontory and best seen in the last hour of light.
Aswan
Southern Egypt
Egypt's most relaxed town — granite islands, a souk that runs to the river, and the old railway hotel on the cliff.
Nubian Villages
Southern Egypt
Painted houses on the west bank, where tea is poured three times and the river is the whole of daily life.
Abu Simbel
Southern Egypt
Ramses II's colossi cut into a cliff, saved from the rising Nile and still reached at dawn by private flight.
Nile Cruise
Southern Egypt
A traditional sailing boat of ten cabins or fewer, mooring at banks where the larger cruise ships cannot stop.
Bahariya Oasis
Western Egypt
The gateway to the deep Sahara: date palms, the Valley of the Golden Mummies and the start of every 4x4 crossing.
Black Desert
Western Egypt
Volcanic cones of black basalt giving way to a hill of quartz, crossed on foot between two desert camps.
White Desert
Western Egypt
Chalk sculptures the colour of bone, wind-carved over millions of years, with a private camp beneath the stars.
Siwa Oasis
Western Egypt
The oasis of the Oracle of Amun, where Alexander consulted the god — salt lakes, date gardens and a mud-brick fortress.
The Grand Hotels of Egypt
Cairo · Luxor · Aswan
The winter-season houses of the golden age of Nile travel, kept exactly as they were — verandas, tea and the river.
Alexandria
Northern Egypt
The city Alexander founded — a fortress on the seawall, a modern library and tombs cut into the hillside.