Two huge rock temples built by Ramesses II, with four 20 m statues of the pharaoh on the façade. In the 1960s they were cut into blocks and moved up the hill to save them from Lake Nasser.
Twice a year, around 22 February and 22 October, the sun shines into the inner sanctuary. It's 3.5 hours by road from Aswan, or a short flight.
A temple to Isis on an island near Aswan, moved stone by stone to Agilkia Island to save it from flooding.
Sail the Nile at Aswan on a felucca, a traditional wooden sailing boat, past Elephantine Island and the Botanical Garden, at sunset.
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…
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 pain…
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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