"Egypt - Must-sees" Egypt by JanPeter74

Egypt Travel Guide: 19,060 reviews and 39,217 photos

Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel - Egypt

There won’t be many people who disagree that once in your life you should have seen the wonders of ancient Egypt! Pyramids, temples, tombs, the Nile valley and the desert makes this country a unique place. Although the country is rather big, the major tourist highlights are all located in a more or less straight line along the river Nile. As a result is it not very difficult to combine these highlights in a single trip. This is also the reason why I decided to create a single Egypt page instead of separate pages for each location.

Most first time visitors will try to see it “all” or at least as much as possible. So did we. We squeezed the entire package (from Cairo in the north to Aswan and Abu Simbel in the south) in one week and added an extra week of relaxing in Hurghada on the Red Sea coast.

Locations that we visited during our trip are: Luxor, Esna (Isna), Edfu (Idfu), Kom Ombo, Aswan (Assuan), Abu Simbel, Cairo, Giza, Saqqara and Memphis.

Last visit to Egypt: Feb 2005
Intro Updated Apr 4, 2005
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Comments (9)

uglyscot Oct 20, 2005 at 2:50 AM Report Abuse

A good basic tour with nice pics.
mirianamak Jul 9, 2005 at 7:14 AM Report Abuse

Great! Thaks for sharing Egypt with us others ! I `ll drop again and again...for sure :) Regards from Makedonija , Mirjana
ariez Jun 15, 2005 at 8:50 PM Report Abuse

Luvly pics and travel tips.... zainon
Dialing May 23, 2005 at 10:52 PM Report Abuse

Super virtual tour for Egypt! Increasingly wish to make it for real with all must-sees :-) A lot of sunshine and smiles from Ukraine; :-) Smile, Anna
fifitrix72 Apr 27, 2005 at 4:26 AM Report Abuse

I know I know - I am completely useless...will be sending you all my excuses in a long version of war & peace later today :-) so get ready ha ha Me x
MalenaN Apr 18, 2005 at 9:21 AM Report Abuse

Looks like you had a great trip through Egypt! I plan to visit many of these places later this year!
emgee Apr 8, 2005 at 6:17 AM Report Abuse

Thank you for your wonderful travel log. We're going this fall. Please continue with tips for food/shopping/etc.
IceBear7 Apr 7, 2005 at 7:37 AM Report Abuse

great start - I'm green with envy ;-) looking forward to the rest of your page.
danijelita Apr 7, 2005 at 6:51 AM Report Abuse

Nice page:) I see it was great..