Country Info
- Cairo
- Capital
- Egyptian Pound (EGP)
- Currency
- 69,536,644
- Population
- EG
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Nile
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Hilton Taba Resort & Nelson Village
763 reviews -
Conrad Cairo
369 reviews -
InterContinental Citystars Cairo
292 reviews
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Grand Nile Tower Cairo
264 reviews
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Fairmont Heliopolis Cairo
134 reviews
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Holiday Inn - Citystars Cairo
115 reviews
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Radisson Blu Resort, El Quseir
419 reviews
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InterContinental Cairo Semiramis
394 reviews
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Oasis Hotel Giza
294 reviews
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Sofitel Karnak Luxor
892 reviews
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Sheraton Hotel Montazah Alexandria
170 reviews -
Sonesta Beach Resort Taba
285 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Sahara Sands Port Ghalib Resort Marsa Alam
345 reviews
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Hotel Novotel Sharm El-Sheikh
379 reviews
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Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam Casino
745 reviews
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Sheraton Cairo Hotel, Towers & Casino Giza
270 reviews
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Sonesta Club Sharm El Sheikh - Naama Bay Sharm El-Sheikh
749 reviews
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JW Marriott Hotel Cairo
224 reviews
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Hilton Hurghada Resort
304 reviews
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Pyramisa Isis Hotel & Suites Luxor
595 reviews
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Hurghada Marriott Red Sea Resort
411 reviews
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Pyramisa Cairo Hotel and Casino
211 reviews
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Concorde El Salam Hotel Cairo
179 reviews
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Sofitel Cairo El Gezirah
476 reviews
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Zoser Hotel Giza
125 reviews -
Concorde El Salam Hotel Sharm El-Sheikh
1177 reviews
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Moevenpick Hotel Cairo-Media City Giza
140 reviews
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Radisson Blu Resort, Taba
702 reviews
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Mercure Hurghada
336 reviews
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Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza
270 reviews
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El Luxor Hotel
373 reviews
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The Nile Hotel Cairo
139 reviews
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Triton Empire Hotel Hurghada
355 reviews
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Le Meridien Heliopolis Cairo
155 reviews
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Sharm El Sheikh Marriott Resort Sharm El-Sheikh
494 reviews
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Iberotel Makadi Beach Makadi Bay
231 reviews
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Holiday Inn Resort Safaga Palace Hurghada
70 reviews
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Le Meridien Pyramids Hotel Giza
820 reviews
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Domina Hotel & Resort Harem Sharm El-Sheikh
74 reviews
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Sol Sharm Sharm El-Sheikh
532 reviews
Nile
Travel Blogs from Nile, Egypt
Karnak and Luxor Temples,
This is a top pick! Magnificent, no other way to describe Karnak Temple, arriving there before sunrise, standing in the pre dawn gloom, then just as the sun starts to rise, seeing the pillars of the great Hypostle hall being revealed as the sun rose through them was a ...
back on board
This is a top pick! We were back on board for lunchtime, I should mention that, the food is really good, of a high standard, just love these Egyptian vegestables, the staff in the dining room are very friendly,it was a good idea of ours to give them a small gift, we only ...
Chaos continues in Cairo - 1 Feb - 5 Feb
This is a top pick! ... red handed trying to steal some artefacts from Karnak Temple last week. But is it just so quiet and peaceful here in Upper Egypt. However the demonstrations and chaos in Cairo continues. However the good news is the internet is back on. I haven’t ...
Valley of Kings, Queens and Karnak
This is a top pick! ... brilliantly under the dark royal blue of the night sky. I took another couple of rolls of films here. Luxor had been another stunning place with soooooo much to see and do here. Its been pretty hard to pick highlights in Egypt as they are so ...
Aswan
This is a top pick! ... triangular mainsail that has been plying the Nile for hundreds of years. It has a real romance to it. A trip to Egypt wouldn't be complete without a Nile cruise. The 2 man crew fixed all our meals which were really lush and the passengers of and Irish ...
Only tourist left in town! - 12 - 25 Feb 2011
This is a top pick! ... never happened before….we go through the main road through Qena, full of hustle and bustle and general everyday life of Egypt…a scene a bit different to that which we saw a few weeks ago when we travelled to Hurghada during the revolution ...
Bani Hassan Tombs and Tell El Amarna
This is a top pick! ... saw tombs which looked like bee hives spread over the desert mountains. It is one of the largest cemetaries in Egypt. Unbelievable to see. The bus was running low on fuel. They had tried 11 service stations in Minya ...
Aswan & Living with the Family 22-27 Jan
This is a top pick! ... would have been and without the hoards of tourists. This is the busiest place, apart from the Pyramids, that I have visited in Egypt. Even Karnak which sees hundred perhaps thousands of visitors each day never felt as crowded, but then it is a ...
West Bank
This is a top pick! Ahmed had offered to take us to the West Bank with Rambo, he also offered the option of taking a taxi, driven by one of his friends, thinking of the long hot day ahead of us, we opted for the taxi. The taxi driver, also Ahmed, very good and ...
Valley of the Kings
This is a top pick! Riding donkeys, colourful tombs, temples, dust, sun, shopping at the market and then the train to Alexandria to finish the day. I am so tired. Another early morning. We woke at 5am to leave for the Valley of the Kings at 5.45am. ...
Luxor-ious Settings! (Asinine Title Alert!)
This is a top pick! ... on lunch I thought I'd head into the museum gift shop and maybe purchase a little souvenir. "I can see that you've been in Egypt a long time and don't trust the shop owners anymore" the man said. I told him he'd gotten that right for certain but that if ...
Abydos and Dendara Temple
This is a top pick! ... of the cartouches contain names like normal and many of the hieroglyphics speak very badly about the Romans who occupied Egypt at this time but could not understand hieroglyphics. You can see that the Egyptian sense of humour has been ...
Wednesday continued
This is a top pick! ... us time again, Went to Maros on the Corniche, they mainly specialize in fish dishes, sitting by the banks of the Nile is really quite exquisite. An excellent meal, in idyllic surroundings, it is slightly marred by the wide screen projector churning out ...
The travel sickness has got to Mum
This is a top pick! ... rubbish in the river), many boats also seem to just dump their rubbish overboard. The government should have a clean up Egypt day. However, they wouldn't get any volunteers unless they paid. There was also a police boat go past ...
Imshi (arabic for go Away) an ode to Mubarak
This is a top pick! Imshi (arabic 4 go away) 31st January 2011 Who does he think he is - Caesar? He is a stubborn old man and a despot leader Mubarak Mubarak go away and don't come back another day - that is what I hear them say…. After 30 years of dictatorship The ...
Tarjas birthday onboard the Ruby
This is a top pick! First off all, we had our dinner, most of the passengers were wearing galabiya, (don't worry men, your wife can always wear it as a nighty later). Everyone was in a real party mood. Before entering the dining room the waiters were outside with their ...
Aswan
This is a top pick! ... High Dam, Nassers legacy to Egypt, it is an immense structure, in keeping with the other immense structures which abound in Egypt. One has to think, that the benefits to Egypt far outweigh the losses in historical sites, Egypt seems to have enough and to ...
Saturday, must be chill out day
This is a top pick! Chill out day today, seen enough temples for now, after all, need to save something for a later trip. Just lounged about the pool, let that old nuclear ball in the sky do its magic, another hazy day, saw clouds for the first time, we have a ...
4am Wednesday 28th November
This is a top pick! just one thing to say after waking up so early, Where's the coffee? The minibus from Karnak travel picked us up from the hotel lobby, took us to the Corniche, where we boarded a small motor boat, which took us to the West Bank, having a spot more coffee ...
Kitchener Island
This is a top pick! we arrived back at the Ruby, just in time for lunch. I had been speaking to Johanna, mentioning that we planned to go to kitchener Island, he said he was willing to arrange a boat to take us there, the motor boat was dirt cheap, 40 le for the return ...
Riots for Revolution? 28-31 Jan 2011
This is a top pick! ... have run out of petrol, so he had to turn back to Hurghada. The petrol stations are charging a fortune for fuel. Egypt Airlines is cancelling its flights to Cairo tomorrow as well as train services. Ordinary people are mobilising together again the ...
More Temples and it is still hot!!!
This is a top pick! Reluctantly got off the fellucca...wondering why there cant be a 15 day intrepid fellucca tour?? Anyway...Wandered through the Karnak Temple in the early pm then a bit of poolside relaxing then a walk with the group past the illuminated ...
A Lesson on How to be Remembered
This is a top pick! ... We had to backtrack to see it again. It was fairly big, if they had finished it it would have been the largest in Egypt. After crossing back though the cemetery, we visited the Nubian Museum, before heading back into the town through the tourist ...
Light Hearts and the Valley of the Kings
This is a top pick! ... in Caanan, just beginning to settle their land. Babylonia and the Persian Assyrians were in decline or developing. Egypt was the most advanced civilization and therefore had the most advanced burials for their dead rulers. I descended into ...
Fellucca bliss!
This is a top pick! ... of the trip. Played some highly competitive games of shithead, ate home cooked meals and watched the views of the Nile unfold slowly as we sailed ending with a spectacular sunset. The following day did some swimming with and against the ...
Water
This is a top pick! ... favors the militarily-strong Egypt, who threatens a fight if upstream countries try to use more water than Egypt thinks they should. Along the Nile, Nilometers once recorded the height of the flood, which in turn determined the tax level for that ...
Valley of the Kings
This is a top pick! ... second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and is considered to be the last great New Kingdom king to wield any substantial authority over Egypt. He was the son of Setnakht and Queen Tiy-merenese. Ramesses III is believed to have reigned from March 1186 to ...
Back on board
This is a top pick! Saturday, excellent, a rest day, just lounging about on the sundeck, drink a few cocktails, watch the world go by, I love watching people work, I could do it all day. One thing though, must watch how much sun to take, it can be a bit deceptive, with a ...
Sunday, it must be Luxor
This is a top pick! Sunday morning, rather uncomfortable night for us on board, very noisy in the cabin, some ceiling panel was vibrating, didn't catch much sleep until we docked outside the Winter Palace at 1am. WOW; what a bummer, after breakfast returned to ...