Publisher's Synopsis
This guide to Egypt includes all the practicalities one needs, from recommendations of the best-value hotels, restaurants and bars, to chartering a felucca or haggling in the bazaar. It features accounts of the Islamic monuments and pharaonic sites, with all the details one needs on how to visit them with a treatment of Egyptian culture, present and past. It gives descriptions of the routes and landscapes, from the classic journey down the Nile to the desert coast of the Great Sand Sea, and it details information on activities such as snorkelling and diving in the coral reefs, desert driving and camel trekking in the Sinai.
