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 Monastery at its foot, one of the oldest working monasteries in the world, a UNESCO site.
Check the monastery's opening days. Bring warm clothes for the summit.
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.
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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