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There’s a reason the Nile cruise between Aswan and Luxor has been a bucket-list trip for over a century — it’s simply the best way to see Upper Egypt’s temples in the order the ancient Egyptians themselves would have traveled, drifting slowly along the same river that made this civilization possible in the first place. […]

About 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo, the busy city gives way to something most visitors never expect from Egypt: waterfalls. Wadi El Rayan is a protected desert lake and waterfall system, formed when engineers redirected floodwater into the depression decades ago, and it’s now one of the most peaceful natural spots within reach of the […]

Alexandria doesn’t feel like the rest of Egypt, and that’s exactly the point. Founded by Alexander the Great and later home to Cleopatra, the city spent centuries as a meeting point between Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds — and that layered history is still visible everywhere you look, from the breezy Mediterranean corniche to the […]

High on the Muqattam Hills, the Citadel of Salah al-Din has watched over Cairo since the 12th century, and the view from its walls is reason enough to visit — on a clear day you can see the pyramids of Giza in the distance, a skyline that spans thousands of years in a single glance. […]

When the Egyptian government decided to move the Royal Mummies out of the old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, they didn’t just relocate them — they built an entire museum around them. The result, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Fustat, is one of the most important new openings in Cairo in decades, […]

There are very few places on earth that live up to the hype, and the Giza Plateau is one of them. Nothing quite prepares you for the scale of the Great Pyramid of Khufu as it rises out of the desert on the edge of Cairo, with the Great Sphinx crouched nearby, gazing east toward […]