Video: Egypt
Egypt is a vast country of mostly desert. But its isolated oasis towns and the fertile valley along the Nile are home to a quarter of the population of the Arab world and one of the oldest and most extraordinary civilisations on earth.
Traveller Megan McCormick starts her journey in the sprawling and busy capital of Cairo. She then travels into the Western desert via El Alamein to the oasis town of Siwa, close to the Libyan border. Heading South during a five day desert trek, she finally arrives in Luxor.
Along the way...
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Traveller Megan McCormick starts her journey in the sprawling and busy capital of Cairo. She then travels into the Western desert via El Alamein to the oasis town of Siwa, close to the Libyan border. Heading South during a five day desert trek, she finally arrives in Luxor.
Along the way...
- Shop in the beautiful Middle Ages old bazaar of Khan al-Khalili, one of the biggest in the Middle East
- See the Great Pyramids of Giza
- Visit the ancient Christian monastery of St Anthony, said to be the oldest in the world
- Visit the historic ruins and tombs of Bagawat, once inhabited by the pre-Islamic Egyptian Christians - the Copts
- Explore tombs in the Valley of Kings with an Egyptologist
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