I spent six weeks in Egypt several years ago when my nephew and his wife were living just outside Cairo -- he was with an American oil field supply company.
With them, alone and with a small tour group, I got around most of the country. all I can say is -- it is stupendous!
Be sure and stock up on Lomotil and don't drink the water or the ice and don't eat anything fresh unless you can peel it. Pharoah's Revenge is nothing to fool around with!!! I am speaking from experience here.
Most of antiquities lies in a very narrow belt centered by the Nile. Cairo is a good starting point. The big pyramids are just outside the city. The Cairo museum is fabulous.
But don't miss the Kahlili (sp) shopping areas, the old Jewish and Coptic quarters, the City of the Dead. And the belly dancers. You have to see the belly dancers.
There is a golf course in the shadow of the Great Pyramid, and agood hotel there. It is great to sit at the 19th Hole, sip a tall cool one and look out at the sands on which sit both the Pyramid and the Sphinx. So much history flashes by!!!!
Do take the Nile cruise, because you can visit all the old temples like at Abidos, and the magnificent ruins at Luxor and Karnak,Valley of the Kings and then the runis at Aswan and the High Dam. l
Nowhere ion the world is there anything to compare with the size and grandeur of Luxor and Karnak temples!!!!
You can also take a train up the Nile, getting off at each of these places. There are some good hotels along the way, so you won't be far from modern amenities even as you wander through centuries past.
Just don't go in the summer months. It is hot, hot, hot in May, and even worse later.
Back to Cairo,you may want to hop over to Alexandria on the Med sea. It is full of ancient stuff too. Get a good gujide book.
The desert is something else. I crossed the Arabian desert from Israel aboard a bus, took a ferry across the Suez. Fabulous trip, but strenuous and it is something you want to do only once.
Good luck. I envy you your first thrill of Egypt!!!
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Hey thank you for the detailed info. I'm going to save this (and all the suggestions with place related info) and put together a trip...hopefully in the next couple of years!
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