Travel planning
Getting Around Egypt
Sleeper trains down the Nile, a metro that is the only sane way across Cairo, and a river that has been the main road for five thousand years.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Egypt: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Travel planning
Egypt Packing List
A desert country with cold nights, dusty air, a modest dress code and more walking on uneven stone than most itineraries admit.
Travel planning
Egypt Currency and Money Guide
The Egyptian pound, a habit of tipping that has its own name, and the reason no exchange rate is printed anywhere on this page.
Travel planning
Egypt Visa and Entry Requirements
Egypt, unlike much of the continent, will sell most visitors a visa at the airport. Whether you should let it is the more useful question.
Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Egypt
Egypt has one decisive variable and it is heat. Everything else about when to come follows from how much of it you are willing to stand.
Heritage
Nubian Monuments: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The World Heritage property at Aswan is ten places, not two temples. Five were cut apart and moved before the reservoir reached them, and five never left.
Heritage
Ancient Thebes: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The capital of Egypt at its height, split across a river: temples for the living on the east bank, tombs for the dead on the west.
Heritage
Historic Cairo: Visitor and Heritage Guide
One of the oldest Islamic cities in the world, founded in the tenth century and at its height in the fourteenth, inside a city of twenty million.
Heritage
An Introduction to Egypt
A Cairo tour operator introduces Egypt: its geography, the beliefs that raised the pyramids, and the country visitors meet today.
Destination Guide
What to Know Before Visiting Egypt
Pharaonic Egypt is one layer of the country, and the one most visitors stop at. Coptic and Islamic Cairo, the working Nile, and the Nubian south.