Most Egypt content online is written from a desk in another country. These guides are different: each one covers a single city end-to-end — when to go, how many nights it deserves, the top attractions with current entry fees, which neighbourhood to sleep in, and the one or two day-trips genuinely worth your time.
Six cities get the full deep-dive treatment: Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Alexandria, Sharm El-Sheikh and Sinai — between them, they cover where 95% of Egypt trips actually happen. The 16-city directory below maps everything else, from Siwa’s oracle oasis to the whale valley of Fayoum.
Everything is field-verified against how the sites work right now — including everything that changed at Giza when the Grand Egyptian Museum opened in November 2023.
“A good city guide answers the question you’d ask a friend who lives there: not ‘what is Karnak’ — Wikipedia has that — but ‘what order do I do this city in, and where do I actually sleep?’”
