Lonely Planet Egypt (Country Guide)
Rafael Wlodarski, Anthony Sattin, Zora O'Neill
Language: English
Pages: 572
ISBN: 1741043158
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Discover Egypt
Find a Cairo coffeehouse to suit your own style; unwind, chat and inhale deeply over a sheesha
Forget hot springs: try a hot sand bath in the middle of the desert
Take belly-dancing lessons from the most famous teacher in Egypt
Relax in the soft light of early morning on a Nile cruise
In This Guide:
Five authors, 295 days of research, hundreds of touts and a week-long scuba course
Special chapter on cruising the Nile: choose from timeless feluccas and splendid dahabiyyas, the Rolls Royce of their era
Illustrated Pharaonic Egypt chapter by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher brings the ancient rulers to life
Content updated daily - visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews, updates and traveller suggestions
Lonely Planet Pacific Coast Highways Road Trips (1st Edition)
Frommer's Spain 2011 (Frommer's Complete)
Best Easy Day Hikes Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)
Lonely Planet Singapore (10th Edition)
icons are in Byzantine style. Tradition has it that the icon showing the Virgin and Child was painted by St Luke. Remember to remove shoes before entering either church and respect the silence and sanctity of the place. For a week every year (usually 21–28 June), thousands of pilgrims attend the monastery’s annual feast, a time when visitors may not be admitted. You will usually be escorted around the monastery and, while there is no fee, donations are appreciated. Visits sometimes finish with
of the Queens tombs (Biban al-Harim; Map Offline map; adult/student E£35/20; 6am-5pm) There are at least 75 tombs in the Valley of the Queens. They belonged to queens of the 19th and 20th dynasties and other members of the royal families, including princesses and the Ramesside princes. Only two were open at the time of writing, and the Tomb of Nefertari is closed for the foreseeable future but a replica will be built. Tomb of Nefertari (No 66) (Map Offline map) Hailed as the finest tomb in the
in cool stonework and sporting ornate domed roofs, fine furniture and arty, frilly touches. There are two pools (one natural and one chlorinated) and the restaurant here is suitably good. Eden Garden Camp Hut $ ( 0100 071 0707; www.edengardentours.com; huts with fan per person E£55, full board E£105) Located 7km east of Bawiti, in the small, serene oasis of El Jaffara, Eden Garden features simple huts, shaded lounge areas, fresh food and, best of all, two springs just outside its gates: one hot
night-diving site. More experienced divers can descend to the sandy bottom where there’s a profusion of coral towers. Depth: 5m to 30m: rating: novice; access: shore. Islands Dive Site (Map Offline map; location: south side of Dahab) This underwater Alice in Wonderland -esque site offers an outstanding topography of coral alleyways, amphitheatres, valleys and gulleys. Depth: 5m to 18m; rating: novice; access: shore. Umm Sid Dive Site (Map Offline map; location: 15km south of Dahab) An
major arteries converge, and one that’s still occasionally taken over by demonstrations. One of the most distinctive orientation aids is the erstwhile Nile Hilton, currently being renovated as the Ritz-Carlton. The modernist slab, with its mod hieroglyphic facade, was built in 1959. Due north is Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) headquarters, torched during the revolution and, at least as of late 2011, still a blackened shell; many activists were advocating that it remain so, as a