2. INTRODUCTION
Egypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast
corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, making it an
Afro-Asiatic country via a land bridge formed by the Sinai
Peninsula.
NATIONAL FLAG
4. FACTS
• CAPITAL Cairo
• OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Modern standard Arabic
• GOVERNMENT Provisional
• PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah el Sisi
• CALLING CODE +20
• CURRENCY Egyptian pound
• GROSS DOMESTIC 272 billion USD
PRODUCT
• AREA 1,001,450 Kilometer square
5. CLIMATE
Egypt essentially has a hot desert climate . The climate is
generally extremely dry all over the country except on the
northern Mediterranean coast which receives more rainfall in
winter. In addition to strong rain shortage, extreme heat
during summer months is also a general climate feature of
Egypt although daytime temperature are obviously more
moderated along the northern and eastern coasts. In fact,
Egypt is the sunniest and the driest country in the world and
one of the hottest ones.
6. GEOGRAPHY
Egypt has coastlines on both the Mediterranean Sea and
the Red Sea. The country borders Libya to the west,
the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east, and Sudan to
the south. Covering 1,001,449 km2 (38,6662 mi2), Egypt has
a land area about the same as that of Texas and New
Mexico combined, four times bigger than that of the United
Kingdom, twice as big as that of France, and three times
bigger than Germany. The longest straight-line distance in
Egypt from north to south is 1,024 km (636 mi), while that
from east to west measures 1,240 km (771 mi).
7. TRANSPORTATION
Transport in Egypt is centered in Cairo and largely follows
the pattern of settlement along the Nile. The main line of
the nation's rail system follows along the great river and is
operated by Egyptian National Railways. The badly
maintained road network has expanded rapidly to over
21,000 miles, covering the Nile Valley and Nile
Delta, Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, the Sinai and the
Western oasis.
8. CULTURE
The culture of Egypt has thousands of years of recorded
history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations.
For millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and
stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe,
the Middle East and Africa. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt
itself came under the influence of Hellenism, for a
time Christianity and later, Islamic culture.
9. LANGUAGE
The Egyptian language, which formed a separate branch
among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, was among the
first written languages, and is known from
the hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and
sheets of papyrus. The Coptic language, the last stage of
Egyptian, is today the liturgical language of the Coptic
Orthodox Church. Hieroglyphs were written on people's
front doors, so that the news of the pharaoh would travel to
everyone.
10. SHOPPING
The Souks, or the local markets, and the larger bazaars are
among the most remarkable attractions of Egypt. If you ask
anybody, a local or a tourist visiting Egypt, about the most
famous and the largest bazaar in Egypt, the answer would
be the same; it is the Khan El Khalili Market in the
Hussein District in Cairo.
24. ITINEARY
• Day 1 : Cairo
• Day 2 : Cairo to Aswan
• Day 3 : Aswan to Nile Cruise
• Day 4 : Nile Cruise
• Day 5 : Nile Cruise to Edfu
• Day 6 : Edfu to Luxor
• Day 7 : Luxor to Hurghada
• Day 8 : Hurghada
• Day 9 : Hurghada to Cairo
• Day 10 : Cairo
