Best Attractions in Egypt
The headline places everyone wants to see — pyramids, temples, museums, deserts and reefs.
Valley of the Kings
A dry desert valley behind the Luxor west bank holding more than sixty rock-cut royal tombs, many with their painted decoration intact.
Abu Simbel
Two temples cut into a cliff near the Sudanese border, and then cut out of that cliff again and moved, block by block, to higher ground.
Luxor Temple
A temple in the middle of a living city, built for a festival rather than a god, and the one major Egyptian site that is better after dark.
The Temple of Kom Ombo
A temple built twice over, perfectly symmetrical, shared between a crocodile god and a falcon god — with a hall of mummified crocodiles next door.
The Aswan High Dam
The dam that ended the Nile flood, created the largest reservoir in Africa, and rewrote Egyptian agriculture, archaeology and politics in a decade.
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera
The most spectacular painted ceiling in Egypt, cleaned back to its original colour, in a temple most itineraries skip.
Sharm el-Sheikh
The southern tip of Sinai — the best shore diving in Egypt, with desert mountains directly behind the beach.
The Temple of Hatshepsut
Three colonnaded terraces cut into a cliff wall at Deir el-Bahari — the mortuary temple of the woman who ruled Egypt as king.
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Egypt Attractions by Type
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Best Tours to See Egypt's Attractions
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