Welcome to Egypt!

Egypt offers everything from sunrise in the desert over the Great Sand Sea to red sunsets over the granite mountains of the Sinai where they meet the shimmering blue of the Red Sea. Trail your hand in the cool waters of the Nile from the back of a faluca after a day of exploring underground tombs.

Egypt was "rediscovered" at the end of the 18th century by French savants traveling with Napoleon Bonaparte on his short-lived and ill-fated adventure along the Nile. Egypt is a country of Pharaohs and pyramids jolted by the occasional explosion. But the pyramids are not always where you expect them to be and the Pharaohs are not all buried under the shifting sands of the West Bank. Discover Egypt yourself to understand it.