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An 1891 khedivial garden, closed since 2023 for a complete overhaul. Reopening announced for late 2026.
GizaGiza
Three halls on Gezira island, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra — and no main hall without a jacket.
CairoGezira, Zamalek
One hundred and eighty-seven metres midstream, and the city readable at a glance. Go up at dusk.
The walk Cairenes actually take after dark: Qasr el-Nil bridge on foot, its lions, a glass of tea.
CairoCorniche el-Nil
Rockwork grottoes built under Khedive Ismail, an aquarium opened in 1902, in the shade, in mid-Zamalek.
CairoZamalek
A temple in the middle of town, open after dark, with a working mosque sitting in its courtyard.
LuxorCorniche
Over sixty tombs in a wadi without a scrap of shade, and a ticket that opens only a handful.
LuxorWest bank
Three white terraces set into the cliff, and the queen's name chiselled out everywhere.
LuxorDeir el-Bahari, west bank
The best-preserved temple on the west bank, with colour still clinging to the ceilings.
The colossus of Ramesses II lies in pieces in his own courtyard: it is the statue behind 'Ozymandias'.
Two eighteen-metre statues at the roadside, all that stands of the west bank's largest temple.
A museum that chose to show little, and to show it well. Keep it for the hot hours.
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
