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Best Time to Travel: October–November & February–April

Tailor-made Egypt Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

Egypt is a transcontinental Northeast African nation bridging Africa and the Middle East via the Sinai Peninsula. It is defined by the Nile River, which cuts through the hyper-arid eastern Sahara to form a fertile valley that birthed one of humanity’s earliest and most centralised civilisations. Egypt possesses the world’s most dense concentration of intact monumental stone antiquities, spanning over 5,000 years of Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Coptic Christian, and Islamic history along a single geographical axis.

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Why Travel to Egypt?

Monumental Giza Plateau

The boundary where Cairo’s urban edge meets the Western Desert is dominated by the Giza Plateau. This archaeological complex contains the three main pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, alongside the Great Sphinx. The scale of these structures is matched by their astronomical and mathematical precision, oriented almost perfectly to the cardinal points of the compass.

Luxor Open-Air Museum

Further south along the Nile lies the ancient city of Thebes, modern-day Luxor. The east bank holds the massive Karnak and Luxor temple complexes, connected by the famous Avenue of Sphinxes. The west bank guards the Valley of the Kings, where deep limestone tunnels shield the burial chambers of Egypt’s imperial rulers, preserving thousands of square metres of hieroglyphs that retain their vivid original pigments.

Egypt at a Glance

Capital: Cairo
Population: 118.6 million
People: Egyptians, Abazas, Turks, Greeks, Bedouin, Siwis, Nubians, Beja, Dom, Faiyum, Sudanese, Syrians, Yemenis, Libyans
Religions: Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Ahmadiyya, Baháʼí
Languages: Arabic (Literary, Egyptian, Sa’idi, Sudanese, Levantine, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi, Western Egyptian Bedawi), Nobiin, Domari, Kenzi, Siwi, Coptic
Currency: Egyptian pound (EGP)
Phone Code: +20
Time Zone: UTC+2 (EET) & UTC+3 (EEST)
Power Plug: Types C & F
Peak Season: October–November & February–April
Dishes: Koshari (lentils, rice, pasta, chickpeas, and tomato sauce), ful medames (slow-cooked fava beans with oil and lemon), molokhia (jute leaf stew, often with chicken or rabbit), ta’ameya (Egyptian falafel made from fava beans)
Neighbours: Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, Israel and Palesine to the northeast, coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Red Sea in the east
E-sim: Get an Egypt e-sim from Airalo or Holafly, or locally from Vodafone Egypt, Orange, or Etisalat shops.
Visa: Egypt tourist visa information is available on the Egypt E-Visa Portal. Contact us for visa assistance.

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“David crafted a once-in-a-lifetime safari for us. Every detail, from the lodges to the guides, was flawless.”

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