• Hot-air balloon over Luxor

    Our favourite

    Lift-off before daylight on the west bank: the wind picks the route, not an itinerary.

    LuxorWest bank

    €€€ High endNile view
  • Egyptboats — Private Boat Tours

    A boat to yourselves, a route that adapts, and dolphins when the sea agrees.

    HurghadaMarina, Hurghada

    €€€ High endSea view
  • Multicoloured slides above a pool, under the palms

    Makadi Water World

    Our favourite

    The biggest water park on the coast, with food and drinks included in the ticket.

    HurghadaMakadi Bay, south of Hurghada

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • Aqua Park — Jaz Resort

    Two parks on one ticket, and above all: almost no queue for the slides.

    HurghadaMakadi Bay, south of Hurghada

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • A whole pod of spinner dolphins — what you come here for.

    Satayah reef

    A horseshoe reef where a colony of spinner dolphins comes to rest.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaHamata, southern Red Sea

    €€€ High endDiving / snorkelling
  • Elphinstone reef

    A 300-metre-long seamount, one of Egypt's best-known dive sites.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaOff Marsa Alam

    €€€ High endDiving / snorkelling
  • The Great Sand Sea

    Unmissable

    Dunes as far as the eye can see west of Siwa, up to the Libyan border.

    Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa

    €€€ High endSunset
  • A paved seafront promenade at dusk, a line of towers in the distance.

    New Alamein

    A seaside city risen from the sand in five years, its towers standing in the Mediterranean.

    Marsa Matrouh and SiwaEl Alamein, north coast

    €€€ High endSea view
  • A hotel room, bed made and bedside lamp lit.

    Downtown's boutique hotels

    Belle-époque buildings restored as small hotels — and their roofs open to everyone.

    CairoDowntown

    €€€ High endHistoric venue
  • The flight goes up at first light, before the wind picks up.

    Flying over Lake Qarun

    Desert, lake and fields seen from above, two hours from Cairo.

    FayoumLake Qarun, Fayoum

    €€€ High endBest in the morning
  • The Thistlegorm wreck

    Unmissable

    A British freighter sunk in 1941, its motorcycles and lorries still in the hold.

    HurghadaStrait of Gubal, Red Sea

    €€€ High endDiving / snorkelling
  • A desert road at the foot of a cliff, a lone car in the distance.

    El Galala

    A new city on a plateau at seven hundred metres, above the Gulf of Suez.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaAin Sokhna

    €€€ High endSea view
  • Flat water and steady wind: the two reasons to come here.

    Kitesurfing in El Gouna

    A flat lagoon and thermal wind every afternoon, April to October.

    HurghadaEl Gouna

    €€€ High endSea view
  • Ski Egypt

    Seven thousand tonnes of snow at minus two degrees, inside a mall west of Cairo.

    Sheikh Zayed & 6th October6th of October City

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • A child's pedal fire engine parked on a driveway in front of a lawn.

    KidZania Cairo

    A children's city inside a mall: they hold down a job, they get paid — and the parents wait.

    CairoNew Cairo

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • Four coloured slides running down to a pool, under thatched roofs.

    Jungle Aqua Park — Neverland

    Forty-five pools and eighty slides — but it is a hotel's park, and the day ticket takes some finding.

    HurghadaSafaga Road (Village Road), south of Hurghada

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • Three dolphins in mid-leap above the blue pool.

    Dolphin World

    Dolphins, sea lions and a walrus, an hour of show — and captive animals, whether or not that sits well with you.

    HurghadaMakadi Bay, some thirty kilometres south of Hurghada

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly
  • A striped inflatable ring on the clear water of a pool.

    Sliders Cable Park

    An inflatable course floating on the lagoon, and a cable tow for beginners — from age six and 110 cm.

    HurghadaEl Gouna, Sabina area

    €€€ High endFamily-friendly