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A reserve reached by camel, where the mountain drops straight into the reef.
SinaiBetween Dahab and Nuweiba, South Sinai
A shallow lagoon at the end of a track, where the sea becomes a turquoise pool.
SinaiNorth of Dahab, South Sinai
A temple of Hathor perched at 800 metres, at the end of a two-hour climb.
SinaiSouth Sinai
A white sand beach and clear water, with not a hotel on the horizon.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaSouth of Marsa Alam
Four reefs in a row across the strait, and one of the country's finest boat days.
Sharm el-SheikhOff Sharm el-Sheikh
A shallow lagoon and wind every day: the kitesurf spot closest to Cairo.
SinaiRas Sudr, North Sinai
A hot spring in the middle of the dunes, and a salt lake a few hundred metres away.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa
A large urban park west of Cairo, with a lake, playgrounds and restaurants.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th OctoberSheikh Zayed
A Nubian village on a lake island, almost without visitors.
AswanSouth of the dam, Aswan
A windsurfing port and a black-sand beach reputed to be therapeutic.
HurghadaSafaga
A visitor centre, electric shuttles and the end of the horse touts.
GizaGiza plateau
Hurghada's boat with portholes: see the coral without getting wet, or knowing how to swim.
HurghadaHurghada Marina, town centre
A piazza, paved lanes and a pier: the one place in Sahl Hasheesh where you walk.
HurghadaSahl Hasheesh, some twenty kilometres south of Hurghada
North-east Cairo's water park — but only in the hot season.
CairoEl Obour City, km 31 of the Cairo–Ismailia road, Qalyubia governorate
Eighty feddans of lawns and rides at km 26 of the Suez road: the weekend outing of New Cairo families.
CairoNew Cairo — Al Rehab
The indoor games hall at Mall of Egypt: arcade, rides and bowling, for when it is forty degrees outside.
Sheikh Zayed & 6th October6th of October City
The countries of the world in miniature, a small zoo and fairground rides: you pay to get in, then you pay by zone.
CairoNasr City
Two floors of trampolines inside a mall: it bounces, and it echoes.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
A soft play the size of a warehouse — and one of the rare ones truly built for toddlers.
A workshop farm near Saqqara, where a child makes things instead of watching them.
GizaSaqqara Road
Four pools and seventeen water games in north-east Cairo: a children's day out, not a place to swim lengths.
CairoZahraa Madinat Nasr
