Egypt

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Rough Guides, 2003 - Travel - 858 pages
Egypt remains the most popular and varied destination in the Middle East. This guide has a 200-page section devoted to Cairo and the Pyramids alone, as well as full coverage of the great landscapes, from the Nile Valley to the Sinai coast and the oases of the Western Desert. For pre-departure inspiration, the author's things not to miss section aims to immerse the reader in the sights and sounds of this enthralling destination. The book also includes the latest on Red Sea diving, including new areas being opened up away from the established resorts.
 

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Contents

2
23
Colour section
57
The front colour section offers a quick
104
Minor road
110
Map and chapter list
114
Footpathtrack
122
Tunnel
147
Basics
240
The Nile Valley Language 4
356
Contexts
372
Viewpoint
443
Read Contexts to get a deeper
444
Mountain range
557
ఎగ
572
The Western Desert Oases 0 Index and small print 5
591
The Delta
636

River
257
Chapter division boundary
288
International boundary
350
RED
673
Index + small print
696
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Real Guide: Egypt
Dan Richardson
Snippet view - 1992

Common terms and phrases

Abdel Abu Simbel Akhenaten Al-Azhar Alexandria Amun ancient Arabic Assyut Aswan Bab Zwayla Bahariya bank bazaar beach boats built buses café camel Canal Cemetery centre century Citadel Coptic Corniche cruise daily except Fri Dakhla Deir Delta downtown Dynasty Egypt Egyptian el-Nil entrance Fatimid Fayoum felucca festivals funerary Fustat Garden Gezira Giza Heliopolis Horus Hurghada Islamic Cairo Ismailiya Khan el-Khalili Kings Luxor Madrassa Mamluke Mastaba Matrouh Midan Midan Tahrir minibus Mohammed Mon-Thurs Monastery Mosque Moulid mummy Museum Muslim Nasser NILE VALLEY northern Nubian Nuweiba Oasis offer Osiris Palace pharaoh police PYRAMIDS Qasr Ramses II restaurant road rooms route Saiyida Zeinab Salah Saqqara service taxis Sharia Sharm el-Sheikh Sinai Siwa station street Suez Sultan Talaat Harb temple there's tickets tomb tour tourist office town Tuthmosis village visa visitors Wadi walk wall WESTERN DESERT OASES Zamalek

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About the author (2003)

Before joining Rough Guides, Dan Richardson worked as a sailor on the Red Sea and lived in Peru. Since then, he has authored or coauthored guides to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hungary, Budapest, Romania, Bulgaria, and Egypt; lectured at the Foreign Office; and been a volunteer aid worker in Albania. In 2009 he published his first novel, Gog-an End Time Mystery, an apocalyptic whodunnit set in near-future Egypt.

Bibliographic information

TitleEgypt
Music rough guide
Rough Guide Travel Guides
Rough Guide to Egypt
Rough guides
AuthorsDan Richardson, Daniel Jacobs, Jessica Jacobs
Editionillustrated
PublisherRough Guides, 2003
ISBN1843530503, 9781843530503
Length858 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Travel / Middle East / Egypt
  
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