Tourism in Egypt, we invite you to visit Egypt

Tourism is the most important sources of national income in Egypt and the Egyptian people used to the presence of tourists among them since ancient times. Egypt is characterized by an abundance of sights of different types, because of the abundance of temples and Pharaonic monuments that have been caring for them and invested to attract tourism, and tourism infrastructure, which includes five-star hotels, tourist villages and tourist agencies and airline offices, and is a tourist congestion in general in Cairo, Alexandria and Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada, Sinai and South Sinai, particularly in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba, where sports sport diving, which attracts tourists from around the world and particularly from Germany and Italy lovers of this type of sports, as Egypt featuring Ali Alalcaab rare coral in the Red Sea and types of fish that they held festivals and competitions fishing yacht, which comes to fishing, from the Egyptians and foreigners.

    * As Egypt is one of the most prominent tourist country in the world where the number of tourists visiting Egypt more than 9.79 million tourists in 2007. Moreover, Egypt is ranked 58 worldwide among 124 countries in the tourism competitiveness index [1].

Tourist destinations in the Greater Cairo area

Egyptian Museum


Pyramids of Giza


Cairo Tower


The island of Zamalek

    * Egyptian Museum
    * Pyramids of Giza
    * Pyramid of Saqqara in Badrasheen
    * Cairo Tower
    * Khan El-Khalili, Cairo Fatimid
    * Al-Azhar Park
    * The Pharaonic Village
    * Harrania village, where he was hand-made carpet manufacturing high quality and well-known abroad as well as traditional clothing.

Sculpture hieroglyphic writing in Memphis (Egypt)


Statue Thtamos third in the Luxor Museum


Temple of Abu Simbel, carved in the rock.


Luxor Temple

Edfu Temple in Aswan


Philae Island


Islamic Museum


Coptic Museum

Suhaimi house (Old Cairo)


Mashrabya Street Muizz Fatimid


Babylon Fortress


Trappings of Cairo
 Museums

    * Egyptian Museum
    * Military Museum at the Citadel.
    * Palace of Prince Mohamed Ali
    * Helwan Wax Museum

 Sights in Alexandria

Alexandria is a favorite destination for Egyptians and tourists from Arab nationalities and foreigners alike, particularly in the summer months from June to September, which is experiencing a tourism boom Alexandria significant. It also has several tourist attractions including:

    * Bey Citadel
    * Library of Alexandria
    * Roman theater
    * Petrie excavations com



    * Alexandria National Museum
    * Greco-Roman Museum
    * Royal Jewelry Museum
    * Alexandria Opera House



    * Museum of Fine Arts
    * Mahmoud Said Museum
    * Institute of Aquaculture in Alexandria
    * Beaches in Alexandria and Al-Ajmi and Palm Beach (Oct 6)

Bey Citadel


Pompey Pillar


Roman theater district com Dekka


Alexandria National Museum

Statue of Pharaoh Akhenaten (m. A. S.)


Exhibits Alexandria National Museum


A statue of a priest shows gods Osiris (m. A. S.)


Tombstone (Alexandria National Museum)

Mosaic (Alexandria National Museum)


Mural to the library highlight the languages of the world


Celebrations near the Bibliotheca Alexandrina


Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

There is also the city's major commercial centers than the date of creation cent each year:

    * Green Plaza
    * Carrefour
    * Omar Effendi
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    * (Salon Verdi) green living room



    * Zahran Mall
    * Hannu
    * San Stefano Grand Plaza
    * Shekorel



    * Deep Mall
    * SHIMLA
    * Fathallah Mall
    * ARCO

Shopping can also be from other areas such as: Mansheya, Rue sixes, Abrahamic Street Cinema Icatih, Cleopatra, Saad Zaghloul Street, Safia Zaghloul, Fouad street.

The proportion of hotels in Alexandria, is lower than other cities in Egypt such as Cairo and Sharm El Sheikh and Luxor arrive there large numbers of tourists and foreign visitors, but which has a distinct group of hotels, such as: Helinan Palestine Hotel (Park Gardens), Sofitel Hotel, Salamlek (held this hotel General in 1892. by order of the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and is characterized by the hotel that serves in the gardens on a hill in the park, which is one of the most beautiful beaches of the city of Alexandria). Hotel Four Seasons San Stefano (counting Hotel & Casino San Stefano of the most luxurious hotels in Egypt and Alexandria in particular in the first half of the twentieth century and in the fifties, where the aristocratic Egyptian and foreign celebrities and art and politics of the most the users, the old hotel was demolished in the nineties after being bought by the Egyptian real estate and established a shop of a hotel complex and a large trade with Marina particular) are also several branches of the hotels bearing the names of global [2].
Cornish maritime area at night

And for restaurants and Alkaverat (coffee shops) are located in Alexandria, many of the casinos and restaurants this distinctive and prestigious addition to a large number of cafes, which established the European style in the forties of the twentieth century and spread, especially on the Corniche in Alexandria: Casino not kurta, C Gel (Max - French port ), Petro (Tawfiq al-Hakim was one of the pioneers of this cafe regular), Panorama Riviera, Elite (Safia Zaghloul), Flückiger, Zoviriun (Abu Qir), Santa Lucia, Otenius (station sand), Dennis, Mohammed Ahmed (a popular restaurant in the city beans and falafel was called "Benjamin" until the mid-sixties) ... And increase the activity of these cafes and restaurants are great, especially in holidays and summer months. There are also various branches of the chain of restaurants, international fast food and cafes such as the famous and Delis Trianon.
 North coast and the Matrouh Governorate and the city of Rashid
German cemetery at El Alamein

Province is subtracted from the largest province in Egypt, including about half of the coast of Egypt on the Mediterranean, and are maintaining a large number of tourist villages, including Mrakie, MENA & Resort Marina El-Alamein, in addition to a major tourist resort is done by Emaar Properties PJSC. .., also considered the city of Marsa Matrouh and adjacent to one of the favorite destinations for the Egyptians to spend summer vacation, and saw the city in recent years the influx of large numbers of foreign tourists, especially Europeans, and of these contain Matruh on the white sandy beaches and clean coast is one of the cleanest beaches of the sea average of all, there are also flags in the cemeteries of World War II, which was one of the major battles in the area of El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces either from the town of Rashid is the ancient historic city and is the third city in ancient Egypt found the Rosetta Stone, which he found one of the officers the French campaign, and his grandfather's castle in the west coast of the Nile Bey Citadel. In Rashid also a large number of relics, including a mosque, a mosque, Abu Zaghloul Mandour and mill Abu Shahin, bathroom Azouz and others held in the current period, modification and maintenance of a large number of signs because the city of Rashid Rashid will include a map of the ancient Egyptian tourism soon.
 Tourist destinations in southern Egypt

In Luxor and Aswan, where Pharaonic temples on the banks of the River Nile, and is done through the river cruises in the five-star floating hotels.
 Tourism in the Sinai and the Red Sea

Sinai leads a lot of tourists from around the world, particularly from the European Union to relax and enjoy the nature of the Sinai mountains hugging the Red Sea in Scenic, can also visit areas of the Bedouin, the indigenous local gathering places through the safari, which is in the desert. Are found in the Sinai and the Red Sea resorts and a number of the most important tourist cities Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Dahab, El Gouna, Ras Sidr, Nuweiba, Taba, Marsa Alam, and also the monastery of St. Catherine and the city of Mount Sinai, the provincial capital of South Sinai.

Beach, near the city short on the Red Sea


Mersa Alam


Cornish Dahab in the evening


Dahab

El Gouna


Yachts in El Gouna


Naama Bay near Sharm el-Sheikh


Sharm El-Sheikh
 Religious Tourism

Multiple aspects of tourism in Egypt, including tourism with a religious character, which will include visiting sites of religious significance or implications in the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, for example, multiple places of significant mismatch of Egypt's Islamic Mosque of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad ibn Abd Allah peace and in Cairo, "where the tomb includes the head", in addition to mosques, such as historic Mosque of Ibn Tulun and Al-Azhar mosque and the walls of historic Cairo and Saladin's Citadel, and there are sites of religious significance Christian church of St. Sergius, which have resorted to the Holy Family during their recourse to Egypt and the Hanging Church and Monastery of St. Catherine there are also sites of religious significance such as Jewish in Egypt in the Sinai, Mount Moses and Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, Cairo, located near the deep well the Jews believe that "mother of the Prophet Moses was in store for him for fear of Pharaoh" and Synagogue Cmaim motto "Heaven's Gate" in central Cairo, and a synagogue Yahoo Hnabe Street Prophet Daniel and the synagogue of origin in Alexandria.
 Islamic religious shrines

Egypt's many mosques and mosques, including the important historical Al-Hakim Mosque, as well as mosques, including al-Bayt Al-Hussein (AS) and Sayyida Zainab (AS) as there are other historic mosques, including Al Rifai mosque, which was buried by the members of the royal family, Mohamed Ali Mosque, one of the the most important points in the programs organized by the tourist companies.

Citadel in Cairo


Mosque of Mohammed Ali


Mosque of Mohammed Ali


Hussein in the holy month of Ramadan

Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque in Alexandria


Al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo


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Baybars Mosque in Cairo

Minaret of a mosque Al-Hakim


Clock tower in the mosque of Muhammad Ali


Dish Mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo


Mosque of Ibn Tulun
 Christian shrines

There are many places of Christian history in Egypt, the Hanging Church and monasteries for all Christian denominations, such as St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai. And near by is the Mount Musa, who is organizing trips to rise at night until the sunrise from the control over the mountain.