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