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A coral shaft around a hundred metres deep, reachable from the beach in fins.
SinaiDahab, South Sinai
Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Indigo houses, a dune behind them, and a culture that is nothing like Egyptian.
AswanGharb Soheil, west bank
A dry limestone canyon on the edge of Maadi: an old sea floor, now a protected area.
CairoMaadi
Rows of seated Buddhas under parasols, in a Japanese-style garden south of Cairo.
CairoHelwan
The garden of a nineteenth-century Greek villa: ruled walks, marble statues, old palms.
AlexandriaSmouha
A sunken garden wrapped around what is left of Alexandria's medieval city wall.
AlexandriaShallalat
An early twentieth-century pleasure garden in Nouzha: come for the palm walks.
AlexandriaNouzha
Two ways up: the camel path, long and gentle, or the staircase the monks cut in the rock.
SinaiSaint Catherine, Sinai
Egypt's highest summit, in the same granite massif — a long day's walking, and no steps.
A sandstone corridor with yellow and purple walls, and passages you take sideways.
SinaiNuweiba, Sinai
A protected area between Sharm and Dahab, where the mangroves stand with their roots in the sea.
Sharm el-SheikhSharm el-Sheikh, Sinai
A deep bay closed in by mountains, south of Taba. The word fjord is a stretch.
SinaiTaba, Sinai
Two islands of sand and coral off Hurghada, reached by boat, for the day.
HurghadaHurghada
A fishing harbour south of Marsa Alam: mangrove on the shore, islands a few kilometres out.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaHamata, Marsa Alam
Mountains, gravel plains and acacias south of Marsa Alam. Not a place for an ordinary car.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaMarsa Alam
The Gulf of Suez, about two hours from Cairo: freighters on the horizon and a day by the sea.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaAin Sokhna
A desert depression filled with the Fayoum's drainage water: two lakes and dunes.
FayoumWadi El Rayan
Skeletons of whales with legs, left in the sand exactly where they were uncovered.
FayoumWadi El Hitan
A salt lake below sea level, all that is left of the ancients' Lake Moeris.
FayoumLake Qarun
An alabaster cave at the end of a quarry track, opened by a quarry blast.
FayoumBeni Suef
Chalk outcrops standing in the sand, carved by the wind. Beyond the tarmac it is 4×4 country.
The oases and the Western DesertFarafra, New Valley
An oasis that Cairo coaches reach in a day: palm groves, hot springs, black-capped hills to the south.
The oases and the Western DesertBahariya, Western Desert
Palm groves under a pink escarpment, and a mud-brick quarter called al-Qasr.
The oases and the Western DesertDakhla, New Valley
