Chalk formations sculpted by the wind into mushrooms and other shapes, gleaming white in the Western Desert. Camp overnight under the stars on a 4x4 tour from Bahariya Oasis, passing the Black Desert and Crystal Mountain.
Tours leave from Cairo or Bahariya.
A remote oasis near the Libyan border, with palm groves, salt lakes, hot springs, the mud-brick ruins of Shali fortress, and the Temple of the Oracle…
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 Gr…
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…
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…
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