CAIRO TRAVEL GUIDE
The twin streams of Egypt's history converge just below the Delta at Cairo, where the greatest city in the Islamic world sprawls across the Nile towards the Pyramids...

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ALEXANDRIA TRAVEL GUIDE
ALEXANDRIA turns its back on the rest of Egypt and faces the Mediterranean, as if contemplating its glorious past; a hybrid city characterized by Durrell as the "Capital of Memory".

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LUXOR TRAVEL GUIDE
LUXOR has been a tourist mecca ever since Nile steamers began calling in the nineteenth century to view the remains of Thebes...

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ASWAN TRAVEL GUIDE
Aswan Egypt's southernmost city (population 150,000) and ancient frontier town has the loveliest setting on the Nile. At ASWAN the deserts close in on the river...

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ASSYUT GUIDE
Assyut was the first part of Middle Egypt to become a virtual no-go zone for tourists, as locally based Islamic radicals targeted foreigners...

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BAWITI TRAVEL GUIDE
BAWITI harbours a picturesque nucleus of old houses on a ridge overlooking luxuriant palm groves, but that's not what you see on arrival.

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FAYOUM TRAVEL GUIDE
A kind of pocket-sized version of Cairo, with the Bahr Yussef canal in the role of the Nile, FAYOUM CITY * makes a grab at the wallets of middle-class Egyptians...

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HURGHADA TRAVEL GUIDE
HURGHADA (GHARDAKA) READ IT HERE In the course of two decades, HURGHADA has been transformed from a humble fishing village of a few hundred souls into a booming town of 50,000 people...

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ISMAILIYA TRAVEL GUIDE
ISMAILIYA 's schizoid character is defined by the rail line that cuts across the city. South of the tracks lies the European-style garden city built for foreign employees...

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MINYA TRAVEL GUIDE
Though MINYA is further from most of the sites, it used to be infinitely preferable to Mallawi as a base for excursions. The provincial capital, it derives considerable charm from...

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SIWA TRAVEL GUIDE
Most visitors rate SIWA TOWN and the pools, rocks and ruins around as the oasis's main attractions, and not many bother to visit the outlying villages.

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