A boat trip down the ancient River Nile. Snorkeling off the Sinai Peninsula. Exploring the vast Valley of the Kings. Egypt offers enough bucket-list experiences to fill a lifetime. Whatever your dream trip involves, this DK Eyewitness travel guide is the perfect companion.

With a brand-new design, beautiful new photography, and new inspirational content, this fully updated guide brings Egypt to life, transporting you there like no other travel guide. You'll find trusted travel advice, expert-led insights, detailed breakdowns of all the must-see sights, photographs on practically every page, and our hand-drawn illustrations, which take you inside the country's buildings and neighborhoods.

You'll discover:

• Our pick of Egypt's must-sees and top experiences
• Beautiful photography and detailed illustrations, taking you to the heart of Egypt
• The best spots to eat, drink, shop and stay
• Detailed maps and walks that make navigating the region easy
• Easy-to-follow itineraries
• Expert advice get ready, get around and stay safe
• Color-coded chapters to each part of Egypt
• A lightweight format, so you can take it with you wherever you go

Want the best of Cairo in your pocket? Try our Top 10 Cairo and the Nile.

DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

Lonely Planet's Egypt is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Discover the pyramids of Giza, cruise the Nile, and dive in the Red Sea; all with your trusted travel companion.

Inside Lonely Planet's Egypt Travel Guide:

Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's best experiences and where to have them

Itineraries help you build the ultimate trip based on your personal needs and interests
Local insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - whether it's history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics

Eating and drinking - get the most out of your gastronomic experience as we reveal the regional dishes and drinks you have to try

Toolkit - all of the planning tools for solo travellers, LGBTQIA+ travellers, family travellers and accessible travel

Colour maps and images throughout
Language - essential phrases and language tips

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Covers Cairo and Around, the Nile Delta, Northern Nile Valley, Luxor, Southern Nile Valley, Siwa Oasis and the Western Desert, Alexandria and the Mediterranean Coast, Suez Canal, Red Sea Coast, Sinai and more

About Lonely Planet:

Lonely Planet, a Red Ventures Company, is the world's number one travel guidebook brand. Providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973, Lonely Planet reaches hundreds of millions of travelers each year online and in print and helps them unlock amazing experiences. Visit us at lonelyplanet.com and join our community of followers on Facebook (facebook.com/lonelyplanet), Twitter (@lonelyplanet), Instagram (instagram.com/lonelyplanet), and TikTok (@lonelyplanet).

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• Strategic, flexible itineraries including a one-week best of Egypt trip, a week of snorkeling, and more
• Can't-miss experiences: Wander in the shadows of kings at Luxor's Karnak Temple and stroll the Avenue of Sphinxes. Marvel at the magnificent temple of Queen Hatshepsut, travel back in time at the Grand Egyptian Museum, or wind your way through colorful backstreet markets in search of the perfect handmade souvenir
• Outdoor adventures: Summit historic Mt. Sinai at dawn or spend an evening horseback riding near the Great Pyramid of Giza. Escape the chaos of Cairo on a felucca boat cruise or bike through the City of the Dead. Kayak the Nile and camp under the stars in the White Desert
• The best local flavors: Feast on traditional Egyptian street food, dig into fresh seafood in Alexandria, and indulge your sweet tooth with a plate of kunafa or basbousa
• Firsthand insight from Cairo resident and American expat Sarah Smierciak on how to experience the real Egypt and avoid crowds
• Full-color, vibrant photos throughout
• Detailed maps and useful tips for navigating public transportation and taxis
• Thorough background information on the landscape, wildlife, history, government, culture, and local customs
• Handy tools including an Egyptian Arabic phrasebook and tips for accessibility, LGBTQ+ travelers, women traveling solo, and families with children
• Focused coverage of Cairo and Giza, the Northern and Southern Nile Valleys (including Luxor and Nubia), Alexandria, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea Coast, South Sinai, and the Western Desert

Want to see more of Northern Africa? Check out Moon Morocco.

About Moon Travel Guides: Moon was founded in 1973 to empower independent, active, and conscious travel. We prioritize local businesses, outdoor recreation, and traveling strategically and sustainably. Moon Travel Guides are written by local, expert authors with great stories to tell--and they can't wait to share their favorite places with you.

For more inspiration, follow @moonguides on social media.

Don't just see the sights―get to know the people.

At first sight, modern-day Egypt is an unruly and chaotic place: a cacophony of sounds, an overload of smells, and a swirling visual feast. Ancient church domes and medieval minarets share the same space with fast-food chains and chic air-conditioned cafes.

Egyptian society has undergone dramatic changes in recent years, yet tradition and deeply conservative views prevail. Culture Smart! Egypt explores the codes and paradoxes of Egyptian life, outlines the country's history, and shows the forces that have shaped its sensibility. It explains the key values and attitudes, guides you through local customs and traditions, and opens a window into the private lives of Egyptians and offers advice on how to get a long with them and how to be a good guest.

Have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on etiquette and communication will help you navigate unfamiliar situations and avoid faux pas.

The Egyptian obelisks are the oldest globally distributed human creations on earth and have a unique physical presence in the lives of millions of people every day. It is as if they have intentionally positioned themselves far and wide in order to tell the contemporary world something. And I wanted to hear what they have to say.

Easing into life after the daily grind of corporate climbing and consulting, semi-retired businessman Mark Ciccone was faced with a first-world problem--how to find meaning as a man of leisure?

He finds the answer more than five thousand miles away, lying in the stone quarries of one of the cradles of civilization: the Egyptian obelisk. With a presence on four continents, the twenty-six surviving granite monuments are some of history's most mysterious and meaningful man-made objects, each with its own voice and message for the world.

Setting out to see each one, he embarks on a six-month, twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey of fun with a purpose from his hometown of Boston to Egypt, England, Italy, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and beyond to discover what these ancient voices have to say about religion, technology, tribalism, and the conflicts that plague the world of today.

Obelisk Odyssey is a powerful blend of history, humor, and self-discovery that reveals just as much about the present and the future as it does about the past.

As enthralling as any work of fiction, A Thousand Miles up the Nile is the quintessential Victorian travel book.

In 1873, Amelia B. Edwards, a Victorian gentlewoman, spent the winter visiting the then largely unspoiled splendors of ancient Egypt. An accurate and sympathetic observer, she brings nineteenth-century Egypt to life. A Thousand Miles up the Nile was an instant hit in 1876, and is received with equal enthusiasm by modern readers.

Fans of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody Emerson mystery series will see similarities between the two Amelias. More importantly, A Thousand Miles up the Nile provides a wealth of background information and detail that will increase your understanding and enjoyment of Peters' novels.

This Norton Creek Press edition of A Thousand Miles up the Nile is an exact reproduction of the lavishly illustrated 1890 edition by Routledge and Sons. For more Norton Creek classic reprints, visit http: //www.nortoncreekpress.com.

Amelia B. Edwards was an author and co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund.

Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagine, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperback

Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge, visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country's wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site, for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century, Thomas Cook of Leicester, England, revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these 'floating palaces, ' with their private cabins, and dining, smoking, and viewing salons, red-uniformed dragoman guides, and organized donkey excursions, carried the aristocratic, moneyed, and adventurous of international society of the time.

Using period photography, and colorful vintage posters and advertising material, this book tells the story of the people, the places, and the boats, from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon, through to famed later passengers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and, of course, Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.

Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night.

Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun. Yet although they are among the most celebrated, visited, and photographed archaeological sites in the world, the two temples are among the least understood by the visitor.

In this lucidly written, beautifully illustrated guide, Nigel Fletcher-Jones explains the main features of both temples, discusses what they teach us about ancient Egypt during the reign of Rameses II (1265-1200 BC), and illustrates which gods and goddesses were worshipped here.

With over 50 new photographs, drawings, and diagrams, and packed with fascinating insights, Abu Simbel: A Short Guide to the Temples is an indispensable companion and souvenir to one of the world's great archaeological sites.

Explore the History and Mythology of Egypt, Greece and Rome

** 3 Books In 1 - Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome **

Ancient Egypt:

Through exploring the ancient Egyptian ruins and tombs, we have been able to learn much about their way of life, views of the afterlife, religious beliefs, dynasties, invasions from foreign kingdoms, battle tactics, family, and more...

In this book you will find:

• How Egypt came to become the first empire
• The creation myth of Amun-Ra, Osiris, and Set
• A timeline of the entire reign of the Egyptian dynastic periods, from the Old Kingdom to Roman Egypt
• The Heliopolitan Ennead and its importance
• Details on some of the most important gods including Ra, Amun-Ra, Anubis, Bastet, Isis, and Sekhmet
• Details on the life of some of the most prominent kings including Menes, Cheops, Amenemhet I, Tuthmosis I and III, Akhenaten, Ramesses II and III, and Ptolemy I Soter
• The lives of some of the most important queens and how they gained power including Khentkawes I, Ahmose-Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti, and the famed Cleopatra VII
• How the pyramids and temples were built
• Busting the myth that the slaves built the pyramids
• One of the most prominent myths of the afterlife
• How the water levels of the Nile caused either prosperity or disaster
• The daily lives of Egyptians, how they farmed, their family dynamic, and hygiene
• And more...

Ancient Greece:

There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the following book, you are going to learn everything you'll ever need to know about the history and socio-political makeup of the world of Ancient Greece. Where did Greek culture come from? When did it begin to taste shape? Where there any precursors to the Ancient Greeks?

Find the answers to all of these questions:

• Start your amazing journey into the world of Ancient Greece with a look at the rise of Greece in the Archaic era
• Follow Ancient Greece on its path to great power and prosperity and we move into the hugely important Classical era
• Find out how the world changed in massive ways, and Ancient Greece shifts along with the changing times of the Hellenistic era
• Learn all about the changing role of Ancient Greece as it takes its place in history under the rule of the Roman Empire
• And more...

Ancient Rome:

Few societies and historical periods capture our fascination as much as ancient Rome. With a founding steeped in legend, along with the rise and fall of a monarchy, a republic, and an empire filled with colorful, and often even bizarre, leaders and popular figures, it is no wonder that it has been the source of inspiration for a multitude of novels, movies, and television shows.

While this entertainment fare has had varying degrees of historical accuracy, a great deal of artistic license does not need to be taken to make the story of ancient Rome intriguing and scintillating. It was a society and a people rich with a drama that still captures our interest even today, more than 1500 years since the fall of the great Roman Empire.

In this book you are going to find out about:

• The founding and rise of the Roman Republic
• The era of an empire
• The Christianization of the empire and its impact
• The masterpiece of Rome
• How it becomes a melting pot of theism
• And more...

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Explore the History and Mythology of Egypt, Greece and Rome

** 3 Books In 1 - Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome **

Ancient Egypt:

Through exploring the ancient Egyptian ruins and tombs, we have been able to learn much about their way of life, views of the afterlife, religious beliefs, dynasties, invasions from foreign kingdoms, battle tactics, family, and more...

In this book you will find:

• How Egypt came to become the first empire
• The creation myth of Amun-Ra, Osiris, and Set
• A timeline of the entire reign of the Egyptian dynastic periods, from the Old Kingdom to Roman Egypt
• The Heliopolitan Ennead and its importance
• Details on some of the most important gods including Ra, Amun-Ra, Anubis, Bastet, Isis, and Sekhmet
• Details on the life of some of the most prominent kings including Menes, Cheops, Amenemhet I, Tuthmosis I and III, Akhenaten, Ramesses II and III, and Ptolemy I Soter
• The lives of some of the most important queens and how they gained power including Khentkawes I, Ahmose-Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti, and the famed Cleopatra VII
• How the pyramids and temples were built
• Busting the myth that the slaves built the pyramids
• One of the most prominent myths of the afterlife
• How the water levels of the Nile caused either prosperity or disaster
• The daily lives of Egyptians, how they farmed, their family dynamic, and hygiene
• And more...

Ancient Greece:

There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the following book, you are going to learn everything you'll ever need to know about the history and socio-political makeup of the world of Ancient Greece. Where did Greek culture come from? When did it begin to taste shape? Where there any precursors to the Ancient Greeks?

Find the answers to all of these questions:

• Start your amazing journey into the world of Ancient Greece with a look at the rise of Greece in the Archaic era
• Follow Ancient Greece on its path to great power and prosperity and we move into the hugely important Classical era
• Find out how the world changed in massive ways, and Ancient Greece shifts along with the changing times of the Hellenistic era
• Learn all about the changing role of Ancient Greece as it takes its place in history under the rule of the Roman Empire
• And more...

Ancient Rome:

Few societies and historical periods capture our fascination as much as ancient Rome. With a founding steeped in legend, along with the rise and fall of a monarchy, a republic, and an empire filled with colorful, and often even bizarre, leaders and popular figures, it is no wonder that it has been the source of inspiration for a multitude of novels, movies, and television shows.

While this entertainment fare has had varying degrees of historical accuracy, a great deal of artistic license does not need to be taken to make the story of ancient Rome intriguing and scintillating. It was a society and a people rich with a drama that still captures our interest even today, more than 1500 years since the fall of the great Roman Empire.

In this book you are going to find out about:

• The founding and rise of the Roman Republic
• The era of an empire
• The Christianization of the empire and its impact
• The masterpiece of Rome
• How it becomes a melting pot of theism
• And more...

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Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to the Egypt, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.

Inside this Egypt travel book, you'll find:

• Regional deep dive - coverage of key regions, offering a rich selection of places and experiences, and honest reviews of each one


• Itinerary samples - designed for various durations and interests


• Practical information - tips on how to get there and get around, use public transport, beat the crowds, save time and money, travel responsibly and more


• Expert recommendations - insider advice on where to eat, drink, and stay, alongside tips for nightlife and outdoor activities


• Seasonal tips - when to go to the Egypt, climate details, and festival highlights to plan your perfect trip


• Must-See pick - a curated selection of not-to-miss sights as chosen by our authors - Mount Sinai, Islamic Cairo, diving and snorkelling, Valley of the Kings, catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Alexandria, sailing on feluccas, Farafra Oasis, pyramids of Dahshur, balloon rides, the Egyptian Museum


• Navigational maps - colour-coded maps highlighting essential spots for dining, accommodation, shopping and entertainment


• Cultural insights - engaging stories delve into the local culture, history, arts and more, enriching your understanding of the Egypt


• Language essentials - a handy Arabic dictionary and glossary to help you communicate and connect with locals


• Inspiring travel photography - full-colour pictures capture the essence of the Egypt, bringing each location to life and fuelling your wanderlust


• Bonus eBook - Free download with purchase, offering digital access to our comprehensive guide


• Coverage includes: Cairo, Giza, Nile Valley, Western Desert, Alexandria, Luxor, the Delta, Sinai, the Canal Zone, the Red Sea coast

Are you ready to go on a voyage through the land of pharaohs and pyramids that will stay with you for the rest of your life? No need to look any further! You are about to embark on an experience of a lifetime with the help of our Egypt Travel Guide 2023.

Contained inside this fascinating handbook, you will discover the following:

In-Depth Destination Insights: Uncover the mysteries of Egypt's most famous structures, from the awe-inspiring pyramids of Giza to the ageless beauty of Luxor's temples. Egypt is home to some of the world's most well-known architectural wonders.

Discover hidden gems, such as the tranquil oasis of the Western Desert and the lovely towns along the Nile, by venturing to locations that are off the beaten path.

Exploring Egypt's Ancient heritage, Vibrant Traditions, and Delicious Cuisine: While we give you with insider advice and suggestions, you may immerse yourself in Egypt's rich cultural heritage.

Get professional assistance on everything from the criteria for obtaining a visa and exchanging cash to navigating the crowded bazaars and haggling like a native.

Optimal for Each and Every Traveler: No matter whether you are a history buff, an adventure seeker, or a family searching for a memorable holiday, our guide will accommodate all of your interests as well as your budget.

Color Photos to Spark your wanderlust

Multiple Itineraries to effectively organize your days and maximize your time

A Detailed Map to help you navigate confidently

Are you prepared to turn your fantasy vacation to Egypt into a reality?

Do not pass up the opportunity to experience the land of the pharaohs in a way that has never been done before. Place your order for the Egypt Travel Guide 2023 right now so you can get a head start on arranging your exciting journey. Egypt is waiting for you, so let the adventure begin!