Where to go in Egypt
Nine bases, each good for something different. Pick one and we will build the days around it — or combine two or three and we will handle the moving between them.
Cairo
Pyramids, museums and a thousand years of markets
Egypt's restless capital, where the last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World sits half an hour from a medieval bazaar.
Luxor
The world's greatest open-air museum
Karnak, the Valley of the Kings and a sunrise balloon ride over the Theban necropolis.
Aswan
Nubian colour and the calmest stretch of the Nile
Philae Temple, Nubian villages, and feluccas drifting past granite islands.
Hurghada
Red Sea reefs and desert on the same day
Snorkelling, diving and quad safaris on the Red Sea coast.
Sharm El Sheikh
Ras Mohammed, Tiran and world-class diving
The Sinai's diving capital, on the edge of two national parks.
Dahab
Bedouin calm, the Blue Hole and Sinai stars
A slower, barefoot alternative to the big Red Sea resorts.
Alexandria
Mediterranean Egypt, Greek and Roman
Catacombs, the Qaitbay Citadel and the modern Bibliotheca.
Taba
Four countries from one viewpoint
Quiet Gulf of Aqaba beaches on the Israeli and Jordanian border.
Marsa Alam
Dugongs, turtles and reefs with nobody on them
Egypt's southern Red Sea, still quiet and still wild.