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One of Egypt’s oldest and most popular holiday resorts, Sharm El Sheikh wins fans for its breath-taking location on the Sinai Peninsula. The Red Sea coast provides white-sand beaches and some of the finest diving in the world, with crystalline waters teeming with underwater life, wrecks and coral reefs. As well as the diving, Sharm El Sheikh is the ideal place for desert safaris, where you can ride camels through the dunes and camp out under the stars.

Most people visit Egypt for its pharaonic attractions, namely the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. There’s the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, where important discoveries happen every year. From Luxor to Aswan you can travel up the Nile on a luxurious Nile cruise.

Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of legumes and vegetables, since Egypt’ s rich Nile valley and delta produce large quantities of these crops in high quality The history of Egyptian cuisine begins with Ancient Egypt. Archaeological excavations have revealed that workers on the Great Pyramids of Giza were paid in bread, and onions,apparently their customary diet as peasants in the Egyptian countryside. Dental analysis and the desiccated loaves occasionally found in excavated tombs confirm this, in addition to indicating that ancient Egyptian bread was made with flour from emmer wheat.

The Souks, or the local markets, and the larger bazaars are among the most remarkable attractions of Egypt. If you ask anybody, a local or a tourist visiting Egypt, about the most famous and the largest bazaar in Egypt, the answer would be the same; it is the Khan El Khalil Market in the Hussein District in Cairo.

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