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The Western Desert is a beautiful, diverse, interesting and mesmerising area of Egypt. Most visitors to Egypt stay in the Nile Valley, visiting the ancient sites and wonders. The Western Desert is part of the Sahara and stretches as far as the border with Libya to the West and Sudan to the South. Th... |
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The Ancient Egyptian Temple complex, the Luxor Temple is located on the east bank of the River Nile in the ancient city of Thebes, which is now known as Luxor and lies on the east bank of the River Nile. It was founded in 1400 BC during the New Kingdom. The festival of Oput was celebrated each year ... |
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Sinai is a holy land where many of the Biblical events are believed to have taken place. Mount Sinai or Jabal Musá, "Moses' Mountain" or "Mount Moses" also known as Mount Horeb, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is the traditional and most accepted identifi... |
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Located at the foot of Mount Moses, St. Catherine's Monastery, was constructed by order of the Emperor Justinian between 527 and 565 AD. It is built around Moses' Burning Bush, which has a chapel built atop it. Saint Catherine's Monastery in an elevated valley (ca. 1,570 m above sea l... |
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The Nile is famous as the longest river in the world. The river length is about 6650 kilometers in length (4132 miles). The river got its name from the Greek word 'Neilos', which means valley. The Nile floods the lands in Egypt, leaving behind black sediment. That's why the ancient Eg... |
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Since being founded in 1841 by the British, Samuel Shepheard, the 4-star Shepheard Hotel has been at the centre of Cairo’s cultural high life and history. Once the private quarters of the Emperor Napoleon during his invasion of Egypt, the elegant and truly unique Shepheard is at the heart of downt... |
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Just a few minutes south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile, the Pyramids of Giza rise out of the desert expanse — a tribute thousands of years old to an ancient culture. Built about 5,000 years ago, the three large Pyramids of Giza are the most recognizable Egypt attractions. In 2,589 BC, the ... |
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Spanning over 2000 sq. km. the El Bahariya Oasis is a lush haven set in the midst of an unforgiving desert and surrounded by black hills made of quartz. The Oasis is home to amazing ruins, such as the Temple of Alexander the Great, beautifully painted Ptolemaic tombs and very old churches. The recen... |
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is a statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt and is part of the Giza Necropolis. It is the largest monolith statue in the world, standi... |
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Rising out the desert plain, in a series of terraces, the Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut merges with the sheer limestone cliffs of the eastern face of the Theban Mountains as if nature herself had built this extraordinary monument. Set on the West Bank of the Nile, is the magnificent mortuary t... |
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In the ancient city of Thebes, the sprawling Temple of Karnak covers more than 200 acres. The Karnak Temple is unique not only among Egyptian temples, but also among religious sites throughout the world as it is the largest ancient religious site in the world, also often considered the largest open-... |
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Completed in 1848, the Ottoman-style Mohammed Ali Pasha Mosque or Alabaster Mosque is the most noticeable in all of Cairo; for more than 150 years it has dominated the skyline. When the Ottoman Mohammed Ali assumed power of Cairo in the 1800s he had all the Mamluk buildings of the Citadel razed and ... |
