Best places to visit in Egypt
- Cairo
Image of the city of Cairo
Is the capital of Arab Republic of Egypt and the largest cities in Egypt and Africa is divided into three areas, a major tourist: Islamic Cairo, which embraces many of the effects of the Islamic, such as mosques, markets, palaces and walls, where the mosque Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, which was built during the Fatimid caliphate, as well as a minaret as well as museums such as the Museum of Islamic Art, which Located in the field of door creation, which includes 80 thousand masterpiece representing the Islamic civilization best known largest Quran in the world handwritten and a group of Fatimid ceramics and drawing of the Holy Ka'aba on tile of porcelain to a group of incense burners and candlesticks, and there Jawhara Palace Museum, built by Muhammad Ali and also a museum Manial Palace which was built by Prince Mohamed Ali Tawfiq combines architecture model between Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and includes a rare collection of manuscripts and artifacts of the Ottoman era.
What Cairo the other a Christian stockpiles area of ancient Egypt, where the Church of the outstanding, which was built on the southern tower of the Fortress of Babylon the seat of the Roman army in ancient Egypt, was built on the model Albasilki also Church Abe Products Shop, where she settled the Holy Family after fleeing to Egypt with three structures and the lobby of 12 a column decorated with pictures of the disciples of Christ and the Church of the Virgin peace be upon them, known as «Short Reehan» and the Church of St. George, which was built in the thirteenth century and the Church of St. Barbara, built in the early Islamic era, and there are shrines of other Christian like a tree of the Virgin located Matria and the Coptic Museum, which contains books rare up to seven thousand books on art Coptic and Coptic language and history of Egypt during the Coptic period.
The third section of Cairo tourism is the Pharaonic and include the city online, north of Cairo, the city of Memphis, capital of ancient Egypt, the most important landmarks the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, and boats sun and the effects of Saqqara and Oherm Unas and the tombs of the nobles, and the effects of a dead hostage, the Statue of Ramses II and the Temple of Ptah Temple of mummification White Calf and Trinity Memphis granite and the Temple of Ramses II and the first compartment T and the effects of Abu Sir, and the effects of Dahshur.In Cairo, there is the Egyptian Museum, which includes more than 150 thousand artifacts are displayed and hundreds of thousands of pieces in stock.
And the Museum set the effects of the tomb of Tutankhamun also includes a statue of King Khafre, King Menkaure and the treasures of princesses of the Twelfth Dynasty, and in the pyramids area, the project sound and light tells the history of Egypt in several languages within one hour of time, interspersed with music and other influences, there are a number of other museums in Cairo.Bey and the Sultan Al-Ghouri, mosques Amr ibn al-Aas and Ibn Tulun and Sultan Hassan and Muhammad Ali.
The third section of Cairo tourism is the Pharaonic and include the city online, north of Cairo, the city of Memphis, capital of ancient Egypt, the most important landmarks the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, the Sphinx, and boats sun and the effects of Saqqara and Oherm Unas and the tombs of the nobles, and the effects of a dead hostage, the Statue of Ramses II and the Temple of Ptah Temple of mummification White Calf and Trinity Memphis granite and the Temple of Ramses II and the first compartment T and the effects of Abu Sir, and the effects of Dahshur.In Cairo, there is the Egyptian Museum, which includes more than 150 thousand artifacts are displayed and hundreds of thousands of pieces in stock.
And the Museum set the effects of the tomb of Tutankhamun also includes a statue of King Khafre, King Menkaure and the treasures of princesses of the Twelfth Dynasty, and in the pyramids area, the project sound and light tells the history of Egypt in several languages within one hour of time, interspersed with music and other influences, there are a number of other museums in Cairo.Bey and the Sultan Al-Ghouri, mosques Amr ibn al-Aas and Ibn Tulun and Sultan Hassan and Muhammad Ali.
- Alexandria
To the capital of Egypt's second and largest ports on the Mediterranean Sea, but is the largest and most important ports on the Mediterranean North Africa, which houses the treasures of the ancient landmarks, and enjoy nature are rare and mild weather throughout the year. And extends back more than five thousand years and tens of sights old and new, which includes mosques,churches, castles, museums and ancient Egyptian, Greek, Greek, Islamic, and where old bazaars and palaces and gardens,
and addresses its civilization outstanding library of Alexandria, which was newly built to be a cultural icon and world cultural heritage, the beaches of Alexandria famous full of stunning new tourist facilities and resorts, recreational, therapeutic, and cultural rights.
A city where fresh water meets salt water and fresh as the intercourse of the River Nile through the Mahmudiyah Canal, which penetrate the city's latitude and salt water from the Mediterranean this not to mention the fortune of visiting the faces of the screen and hospitality Alexandrian
Alexandria is located on the western corner of the Delta of Egypt, plans for the construction of Alexander the Great when he invaded Egypt in 333 BC. M, but he died before he sees it, has been planning the city Greek existed throughout the Roman era, and in the Islamic era, which began to open Egypt by Amr Ibn El-Aas year 642 AD The city became the toast of many scholars
imams and saints, as is «Acropolis» in Greek architecture, the mosque became the center of the city and ending the streets. Say «I'm Governance» His oldest historical text arrived to us about the mosques of Alexandria: A five mosques: Msadjadalnbe Moses peace be upon him and the Mosque of Suleiman, peace be upon him and the Mosque of centuries or vegetables, peace be upon them, and then a mosque vegetables or of centuries following at the door of the city east and the fifth was a mosque Amr ibn al-Aas.
Rich in Alexandria, many of the churches, and cathedrals of Christianity, such as «Cathedral of Saint Mark Episcopate» station, sand, built by Saint Mark the Evangelist A disciples of Jesus Christ, and the hall leading to the cemetery Patriarchs Copts until the century atheist century AD, and «Cathedral Greek Orthodox Church» in the Middle East and Africa Palmncip small and «St. Mark's Church» and «Roman Catholic Cathedral» and «Evangelical Church» Battarin «The Church Debbane» station, sand, and «the Armenian Catholic Church» and «Church of Saint Mark» and «Deir Mar Mina» LAID miraculous.
Rich in Alexandria, many of the churches, and cathedrals of Christianity, such as «Cathedral of Saint Mark Episcopate» station, sand, built by Saint Mark the Evangelist A disciples of Jesus Christ, and the hall leading to the cemetery Patriarchs Copts until the century atheist century AD, and «Cathedral Greek Orthodox Church» in the Middle East and Africa Palmncip small and «St. Mark's Church» and «Roman Catholic Cathedral» and «Evangelical Church» Battarin «The Church Debbane» station, sand, and «the Armenian Catholic Church» and «Church of Saint Mark» and «Deir Mar Mina» LAID miraculous.
- Fayoum
Located in the heart of the city of Fayoum, Egypt between the Nile Delta and Upper south-west of Cairo, a distance of 100 km, one of the oases in the Western Sahara, is a microcosm of Egypt, where he represents the Bahr Youssef Nile delta and Lake Qarun The northern coastline. And Fayoum gathering where all the tourist attractions and features Btksha moderate throughout the year. He developed the successive civilizations of Egypt and left their mark through the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Romanian, Coptic and Islamic. The area of the province of Fayoum (6068.70 km 2) which comprises five administrative positions are (Fayoum, Sonoras, Etsa, Tamia, Ibshway).
Has met with the three kinds of Fayoum environments - coastal, rural and desert - together in beautiful harmony, but it is not available. Among the most prominent features of the coastal environment that are a magnet key to tourism Lake Karun, which lies 20 km from the city and 80 km from Cairo and is available in water sports, fishing and bird watching migratory and resident and located on the south coast range of facilities and tourist villages.
Tourism desert environment:
Close resemblance to Fayoum oasis, where desert is surrounded on all sides except the point relates to the Nile. Therefore, the desert represents 62% of the area which is rich in Npatadtha and formations of geological and mountains and hills and desert and Oaudettha and her eyes were natural and birds and animals rare wild, has announced the desert north of Lake Karun and around the lakes of Wadi El Rayan protected natural because they contain components of environmental and natural rare.
Close resemblance to Fayoum oasis, where desert is surrounded on all sides except the point relates to the Nile. Therefore, the desert represents 62% of the area which is rich in Npatadtha and formations of geological and mountains and hills and desert and Oaudettha and her eyes were natural and birds and animals rare wild, has announced the desert north of Lake Karun and around the lakes of Wadi El Rayan protected natural because they contain components of environmental and natural rare.
And allow tourism in the Fayoum desert safari, sports, tourism and medical tourism, ecotourism and cultural tourism, visit the sites of ancient fossils of the effects of pre-human and pre-history and ancient Egyptian, Greek, Romanian region.
- Port Said
Was established in 1860 a new port on the Mediterranean Sea to the Suez Canal increased Shahratha the world after it became a free city and is located 220 km from Cairo and 80 km from Ismailia, 160 km from Suez. Characterized by its beautiful beaches, quiet and soft sand and the lack of rocks for its water also has a geographical location linking Africa to Asia, where lies the suburb of Port Fouad in the continent of Asia to the sea east of the Suez Canal. Can take a trip to a beautiful area at a distance of 12 km west of Port Said where he practiced hobby as well as fishing and hiking can be done freely in Port Said to watch the convoys of ships transiting the Suez Canal
- Luxor .
The Luxor, which lies about 620 km south of Cairo, store the ancient Egyptian civilization, in which more than «800» and the shrine of the most fascinating archaeological and Egypt heirs of human heritage. Luxor has been (good), the capital of Egypt until the beginning of the Sixth Dynasty pharaoh, when the capital moved to Memphis in the north.
There were several names that were fired at the Luxor in its history, and most famous city cent door, and the city of the sun, and the City of Light, and the city of Mace, and called the Arabs this name: Luxor, collection Palace, with the beginning of the Islamic conquest of Egypt. It is considered the most important tourist Mashta in Egypt and the focus of attraction for lovers of ancient Egyptian civilization
The town has its unique character that distinguishes it from all parts of the world, where one of the most important tourist attractions in Egypt, and has more amount of ancient monuments, which are not free place where the impact of the speakers the greatness of the ancient Egyptians thousands of years BC
- Aswan.
Comes Aswan Governorate second most provinces to Amtlaiha effects Pharaonic including the island of Philae and the Temple of Governor's house, and the Temple of Kalabsha and the Temple of Edfu and the Temple of Kom Ombo and the Nubian monuments, Deir Anba Hydra and cowardly ancient tribal cemetery Anani and fortifications Aswan, the most important tourist attractions the island of plants and the tomb of the Aga Khan, and includes the city of Abu Simbel temples first Ra Horakhty And the second wife of Ramses II, Nefertari
- Sinai
Sinai Peninsula is famous for its beautiful beaches stretching from east to Kantara Rafah along the 210 km and most important of these beaches north of El Arish and Rafah and Kharouba between El Arish and Rafah and Lake Bardawil in which the richest fisheries in the region.
And south beaches along the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez, including: Ras Mohammed - Sharm El Sheikh - Nuweiba - Dahab - Taba.
And south beaches along the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez, including: Ras Mohammed - Sharm El Sheikh - Nuweiba - Dahab - Taba.
- Sharm El-Sheikh
Every day The city of Sharm el-Sheikh in South Sinai Governorate new, so it had yesterday discover something different if he visited today. This is the truth that turned with the vast desert and majestic mountains at the confluence of the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez and the Red Sea into a modern city in 10 years only, which empowered the Sharm el-Sheikh to win a prize by UNESCO for being selected among the top five cities, peace in the world among 400 cities worldwide.
Every day The city of Sharm el-Sheikh in South Sinai Governorate new, so it had yesterday discover something different if he visited today. This is the truth that turned with the vast desert and majestic mountains at the confluence of the Gulf of Aqaba and Suez and the Red Sea into a modern city in 10 years only, which empowered the Sharm el-Sheikh to win a prize by UNESCO for being selected among the top five cities, peace in the world among 400 cities worldwide
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