Lower Egypt
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Cities
- — firmly attached to the past and home to a vibrant modern society
- — a faded shade of its former glorious cosmopolitan self, but still worth a visit
- — the forgotten gem of Egypt
Other destinations
- — seven pyramids in a compact necropolis, which is one of the most isolated in the country
- — earliest pyramids in wide open desert
- — an extensive number of pyramids and tombs on a plateau above the Nile Valley
- — archaeological site
- (Wadi El Hitan) — a UNESCO World Heritage Site with its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest forms of whale, the archaeoceti (a now extinct sub-order of whales)
Go next
- Middle Egypt — the area along the Nile where the historical Upper and Lower kingdoms met
- Western Desert — location of the Western Oases: five pockets of green, each with their own unique attractions
- Red Sea Coast — luxury beach resorts, diving and marine life
- Sinai — rugged and isolated peninsula, with fascinating relics of the past, high mountains and great scuba diving