Egypt: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides) - Softcover

Richardson, Dan; O'Brien, Karen Lynne Anne

 
9781858280752: Egypt: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Synopsis

This guide to Egypt includes all the practicalities one needs, from recommendations of the best-value hotels, restaurants and bars, to chartering a felucca or haggling in the bazaar. It features accounts of the Islamic monuments and pharaonic sites, with all the details one needs on how to visit them with a treatment of Egyptian culture, present and past. It gives descriptions of the routes and landscapes, from the classic journey down the Nile to the desert coast of the Great Sand Sea, and it details information on activities such as snorkelling and diving in the coral reefs, desert driving and camel trekking in the Sinai.

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Synopsis

This guide to Egypt includes all the practicalities one needs, from recommendations of the best-value hotels, restaurants and bars, to chartering a felucca or haggling in the bazaar. It features accounts of the Islamic monuments and pharaonic sites, with all the details one needs on how to visit them with a treatment of Egyptian culture, present and past. It gives descriptions of the routes and landscapes, from the classic journey down the Nile to the desert coast of the Great Sand Sea, and it details information on activities such as snorkelling and diving in the coral reefs, desert driving and camel trekking in the Sinai.

About the Author

Dan Richardson joined Rough Guides in 1984, after working as a sailor in the Red Sea and a commodities dealer in Peru. He has travelled extensively around Eastern Europe and Egypt.

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ISBN 10:  1843530503 ISBN 13:  9781843530503
Publisher: Rough Guides, 2003
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