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Beach clubs that start at sunset and end late.
HurghadaEl Gouna
Walking the hypostyle hall at night, lit, while the temple tells its story.
LuxorKarnak, Luxor
A temple on an island, lit, reached by boat in the dark.
AswanAgilkia island, Aswan
The colossi of Ramesses II lit beside Lake Nasser, once the coaches have left.
AswanAbu Simbel
Drums, songs and dancing in the village houses, after dinner.
AswanGharb Soheil, Aswan
The pedestrian promenade where Hurghada gathers after sunset.
HurghadaMamsha, Hurghada
Screenings on rooftops and in gardens, from June to September.
CairoCairo and the coast
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
Palm huts at the water's edge, facing the Saudi mountains.
SinaiNuweiba, 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
A horseshoe reef where a colony of spinner dolphins comes to rest.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaHamata, southern Red Sea
A 300-metre-long seamount, one of Egypt's best-known dive sites.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaOff Marsa Alam
Mangroves standing in salt water, flamingos and a Bedouin village.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaWadi el-Gemal, southern Red Sea
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
Dunes as far as the eye can see west of Siwa, up to the Libyan border.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa
A hot spring in the middle of the dunes, and a salt lake a few hundred metres away.
Hills capped with dark basalt, on the road to the White Desert.
The oases and the Western DesertBahariya
A lake among the dunes that changes colour with the day's light.
FayoumWadi el-Rayan, Fayoum
Two kilometres and seven hundred sphinxes between Luxor and Karnak, reopened after forty years of excavation.
LuxorEast bank, Luxor
The new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
