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Discover Egypt
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.
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.
Cairo
118.6 million
Egyptians, Abazas, Turks, Greeks, Bedouin, Siwis, Nubians, Beja, Dom, Faiyum, Sudanese, Syrians, Yemenis, Libyans
Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Ahmadiyya, Baháʼí
Arabic (Literary, Egyptian, Sa’idi, Sudanese, Levantine, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi, Western Egyptian Bedawi), Nobiin, Domari, Kenzi, Siwi, Coptic
Egyptian pound (EGP)
+20
UTC+2 (EET) & UTC+3 (EEST)
Types C & F
October–November & February–April
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)
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
Get an Egypt e-sim from Airalo or Holafly, or locally from Vodafone Egypt, Orange, or Etisalat shops.
Egypt tourist visa information is available on the Egypt E-Visa Portal. Contact us for visa assistance.
All packages are completely customisable. Choose from our curated packages or build your own private journey.
Let’s do it! Perhaps you already know what you want to see and do, perhaps you don’t. Either way, we’ll create the best Egypt tour for you.
Continue your journey with more carefully curated destinations, each offering its own unique experiences, culture, and unforgettable moments.
Near the southern border stands Abu Simbel, a political statement in stone engineered to project the power of the pharaoh over ancient Nubia. The Great Temple’s entrance is flanked by four colossal, 20-metre-high statues of Ramesses II seated on his throne. The inner sanctuary is engineered so that twice a year, on February 22 and October 22, the morning sun travels down the 60-metre-deep rock-cut hall to illuminate the statues inside.
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David Smyth
Director, Forward Travel
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Best Time to Travel: October–November & February–April
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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