The burial ground of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, with tombs cut deep into the hills of Luxor's West Bank, their walls covered with brightly painted hieroglyphs. The standard ticket includes three tombs; Tutankhamun's and Seti I's need extra tickets.
Nearby are the Temple of Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon. Hot-air balloons fly over the West Bank at dawn.
The largest ancient religious site in the world, built over 2,000 years, with the Great Hypostyle Hall's 134 giant columns, obelisks and an avenue of…
Sail the Nile at Aswan on a felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat, past Elephantine Island and the Botanical Garden, at sunset.
A temple to Isis on an island near Aswan, moved stone by stone to Agilkia Island to save it from flooding.
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.
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…
Two huge rock temples built by Ramesses II, with four 20 m statues of the pharaoh on the façade.
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