Sharm El-Sheikh sits where the Sinai Peninsula's red mountains meet some of the clearest water in the world. This is Egypt without the pyramids, built instead around coral reefs that drop straight off the shoreline, dive sites ranked among the

Aswan moves at a slower pace than Cairo or even Luxor, and that's exactly its appeal. Egypt's southernmost major city sits where the Nile narrows and turns rocky, its granite quarries having supplied the stone for obelisks and colossi found

Giza sits close enough to Cairo that the two cities blur together on a map, but stand on the plateau at sunrise and there's no mistaking where you are. This is the only place on earth where you can watch

Cairo is a city where a call to prayer echoes over honking traffic, and where the last surviving wonder of the ancient world sits at the edge of a neighborhood of apartment blocks. Egypt's sprawling capital doesn't ease you in

Once the ancient capital of Thebes, Luxor is often called the world's largest open-air museum, and it earns that title on every block. On the Nile's east bank, the colossal pylons of Karnak and Luxor Temple rise straight out of