Cairo Layover Ideas

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Making the Most of Your Cairo Layover Cairo is a bustling city with a rich history and cultural identity. For travelers with a layover, you have many options for exploring the city. Must-See Layover Ideas Visit the Pyramids of Giza: These ancient wonders are a must-see. The Great Pyramid is the only one of the […]

Best Honeymoon Tour Package {10 Days}

Honeymooners Paradise 10 Days Egypt Tour - 10-day honeymoon holiday

Egypt 10 days 9 nights vacation. Private guided sightseeing tours of Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, Nile cruise experience, & Hurghada Red Sea. Door to door transfers.

The Valley of the Queens: A Complete Guide to Egypt’s “Place of Beauty”

The Valley of the Queens A Complete Guide to Egypt’s Place of Beauty

The Valley of the Queens, known anciently as Ta-Set-Neferu or “The Place of Beauty,” serves as the magnificent spiritual counterpart to the Valley of the Kings. Nestled in a secluded limestone amphitheater on Luxor’s West Bank, this sacred necropolis contains over 90 tombs belonging to the Great Royal Wives, princes, and high-ranking officials of the New Kingdom. The site is anchored by the breathtaking Tomb of Nefertari (QV66), a masterpiece of Egyptian art where vibrant wall paintings illustrate the Queen’s journey toward eternal life. From the tragic burial chambers of young princes to the pioneering excavations of Ernesto Schiaparelli, the Valley of the Queens offers an intimate look at royal grief, divine devotion, and the unparalleled craftsmanship of the 19th and 20th Dynasties.

The Unfinished Obelisk: Guide to Ancient Egypt’s Engineering Failure

The Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan Guide to Ancient Egypt's Engineering Failure

The Unfinished Obelisk stands as a haunting monument to the sheer scale of Ancient Egyptian ambition and the unpredictable reality of engineering. Commissioned by Queen Hatshepsut in the 18th Dynasty, this 1,200-ton granite monolith was designed to be the largest obelisk ever erected, intended to pierce the sky as a “petrified ray” of the sun god. However, as workers painstakingly hammered the bedrock with dolerite pounding balls, a massive crack splintered the stone’s heart, forcing the architects to abandon the project mid-carve. Today, this frozen construction site in the Aswan quarries serves as an unparalleled archaeological blueprint, revealing the exact tools, labor organization, and logistical strategies used by the ancients to move mountains.

The Temple of Edfu: A Complete Guide to Egypt’s Best-Preserved Monument

The Temple of Edfu; A Complete Guide to Egypt’s Best-Preserved Monument

The Temple of Horus at Edfu stands as the most impeccably preserved cult monument of the ancient world, offering a 180-year sandstone record of Ptolemaic ambition and Egyptian spirituality. While other ruins whisper through fragments, Edfu speaks with an authoritative voice, housing an exhaustive “library in stone” that details everything from the chemical recipes of sacred incense to the oldest recorded theatrical scripts in human history. From the towering shadows of its Great Pylon to the protective, grotesque faces of the Bes columns in the Mammisi, the temple serves as a bridge across millennia. It reveals the origins of the divine kingship myth and provides a startling blueprint for universal themes of birth and renewal that still resonate in modern celebrations like Christmas. For the traveler or the scholar, Edfu is not merely a stop on a Nile cruise; it is the ultimate repository of a civilization that built for eternity.

Snorkeling in the Red Sea

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Snorkeling in the Red Sea is one of the very special things that you should do while in Hurghada, Egypt. Sea trip to Giftoon Island to have a fabulous snorkeling experience in the Red Sea. Do not miss it at any cost. With Egypt Fun Tours, get the best for the cheapest price. We pick […]