The last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World: the Great Pyramid of Khufu, built around 2560 BC, with the pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure and the Great Sphinx, on the edge of Cairo. You can go inside the Great Pyramid with an extra ticket.
Go at opening time. Use the official ticket office or online tickets, and expect persistent touts offering camel and horse rides. The Grand Egyptian Museum is next door.
The world's largest archaeological museum, next to the Giza pyramids, with a huge statue of Ramesses II in the atrium, a grand staircase of statues, …
Medieval Cairo, a UNESCO site, with mosques and madrasas such as Al-Azhar and Sultan Hassan, the Citadel with the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, and the Kha…
Founded by Alexander the Great, with the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Qaitbay Citadel on the site of the ancient Lighthouse, Roman catacombs a…
Climb Mount Sinai, 2,285 m, where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, overnight to see the sunrise, then visit St Catherine's Monast…
A national park at the southern tip of Sinai with some of the best coral reefs in the world, and the famous SS Thistlegorm wreck nearby.
Chalk formations sculpted by the wind into mushrooms and other shapes, gleaming white in the Western Desert.
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