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The only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. Arrive at opening.
GizaNazlet el-Semman
Two thousand years of building for a single sanctuary — and a hall of one hundred and thirty-four columns.
LuxorKarnak, east bank
A coral shaft around a hundred metres deep, reachable from the beach in fins.
SinaiDahab, South Sinai
A sanctuary of Isis dismantled stone by stone, then rebuilt on another island.
AswanAgilkia Island
Everyday Egyptian cooking, in a residential corner of Heliopolis.
CairoHeliopolis
A dependable table at Garden 8, in New Cairo, where dinner rarely disappoints.
CairoNew Cairo
The ice counter and the scales, moved into a proper dining room out in New Cairo.
Luxor's best table, in an old house, far from the picture menus.
LuxorEast bank
Fish by the kilo on North 90th: New Cairo goes, and goes back.
Indigo houses, a dune behind them, and a culture that is nothing like Egyptian.
AswanGharb Soheil, west bank
A roof above al-Moez street: you dine at minaret height.
CairoIslamic Cairo
Egyptian street food redrawn by a designer, without betraying the recipe.
CairoZamalek
You pick your fish off the ice, they grill it, you eat facing the harbour.
AlexandriaAnfoushi / Corniche
El-Manial's oriental table, on Roda Island, known to its neighbourhood long before any guidebook.
CairoEl-Manial
You come up for Cairo seen from the top of the tower, not for the menu.
Forty craft workshops under one roof, at posted prices.
CairoFustat, next to Coptic Cairo
Kebab and kofta over charcoal, in a working-class quarter of northern Cairo.
CairoRod El Farag
A Roman necropolis on three levels, where Anubis wears a legionary's armour.
AlexandriaKarmouz
Egypt's only surviving Roman theatre: thirteen tiers of marble in the middle of downtown.
AlexandriaKom el-Dikka
A 2002 library that has nothing of the ancient one but its name, and a reading room on eleven terraces.
AlexandriaShatby
A royal park by the sea where you visit the gardens, not the palace.
AlexandriaMontazah
Egypt's first national park, at the tip of Sinai, where two gulfs meet.
Sharm el-SheikhSharm el-Sheikh
Nubia before Lake Nasser, and the villages that had to be left behind.
AswanAswan
An obelisk still lying in its quarry, cracked: the one place that shows how they were cut.
AswanQuarries
