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Egypt (EG) |
| Continent: |
Africa |
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| Surface: |
1.001.300 km ² |
| Inhabitants: |
761.174 |
| Capital: |
Kairo |
International banking code (ISO Codes): |
EG |
| Official language: |
the Arab |
Code: |
+20 |
| Currency: |
The book Egyptian woman |
Number plate: |
AND |
| Routes of Egypt: |
1693 |
Routes towards Egypt: |
2037 |
| Preferred airports: |
Cairo (CAI), Alexandria (ALY), Charm el-Cheikh (HS), Abu Simbel (ABS), El Arish (AAC), Marsa Alam (RMF), International Taba (TCP), Assiut (ATZ), Aswan (ASW), Hurghada (HRG) |
| Principal cities: |
Kairo, Alexandria, Gizeh, Suez, Mahalla Al-Kubra, Luxor, Assiut, Al Manşūrah, Tanta, Al Fayyūm, Az Zaqāzīq, Ismailia, Kafr AD Dawwār, Aswân, Qina |
| Airline company based in Egypt: |
Egyptair, El Al Israel Airlines, Air the Sinai, Alexandria Airlines |
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Tourist guide Egypt (Africa) |
The Arab Republic of Egypt is located at the North-East of the African continent. It is surrounded of Libya, Israel and Sudan. In the East of this one is the Red Sea, and in North, the Mediterranean.
Geography: The landscapes of Egypt are composed for 96% of desert, only 4% of the grounds are really livable and exploitable for the human ones and the animals. Put aside the oases in the desert, the majority of these fertile grounds are located in the delta of the Nile. It is also in this area that the main cities and monuments of the country are located.
Mountains and rivers: More the high mountain of the country is the Mount Catherine with her 2.629 meters, on the peninsula of the Sinai. The longest river of the country is, with its 6670 kilometers, the Nile, which is also the vital artery of the country. It takes its source in the mountains of Ruanda and Burundi and will finish its race in the Mediterranean. It is the second longest river of the world, after Amazonas in South America.
Climate and advised season: The climate of this country of North Africa is influenced by the various factors which are the subtropical winds at the edge of the Red Sea, the winds blowing of the desert in the center of the country and the wind soft coming from the Mediterranean, in the North of the country. This is why only the North of the country knows the seasons such as knows them the Central Europe. In the South, there is in fact only 2 seasons: one fresher, even if one has to expect high temperatures in the course of the day, and a very hot season. In the desert areas, there exist very important variations in temperatures between the day (50-60 C.°) and the night (10°-0°). It is thus necessary to think of carrying hotter clothing for the night. Put aside in the coastal regions around Alexandria, the country does not know many precipitations. Egypt is mainly a destination of winter for Europeans, even if it is in fact preferable to go there during the previous or following months. Indeed, during the peak season, much of destinations are crammed of world.
Language (S) of the country and communication: The spoken language in the country, and official language, is modern Arabic, such as one includes/understands it in the majority of the Arab countries. In the medium of teaching, it is before all English and, to a lesser extent, French who are most widespread. In the area of the wearing of Alexandria, certain layers of the population, especially at oldest, include/understand the Greek. Apart from that, much of tradesmen in the tourist places include/understand a good number of European languages, such as for example the German, the Italian, the Pole, the Russian or the Spaniard.
Health and vaccines: It is recommended to carry out vaccines against hepatitis-HAVe, typhus, the polio, the diphteria and tetanus. To protect itself from the viruses propagated by the mosquitos and the insects, it is enough most of the time to wear covering clothing and to use insecticides sold on the spot. There exists a light risk of Malaria during the rain season between June and October in the Al Faiyoum oasis, in the area of the Nile. Besides that, Egypt is not touched by the malaria. Before leaving, please inform itself near your attending physician in connection with a possible preventive medication of the Malaria (paludism). Only the tourist big cities and centers can guarantee sufficient medical care and of quality. It is recommended to provide itself with a special health insurance for the voyages with insurance-repatriation in the event of urgency. Apart from that, it is recommended to peel the fruits and to cook vegetables in order to avoid any risk of infection. It is also judicious to carry a small first-aid kit with the necessary one.
Conditions of entry: A passport in rule, and still valid for at least 6 months, is obligatory. A paying visa is also obligatory. It is possible to make the request of it before leaving near the embassy the country or directly to the airport while arriving. The tourist visa is established initially for 30 days and can be prolonged on the spot. For that, it is necessary to go in Mogamma to Cairo (El-Tahrir place) or the passport office in the other cities. It is possible to prolong it duration that you wish, the maximum being one year, but with prohibition to work for this period. Another detail: your visa does not enable you to leave the Egyptian territory and to return even if the validity date is still good. You will have to then repurchase a new visa with the Egyptian consulate of the country which you visit. Earn time and money, in Mogamma to Cairo and ask a Re-entry aimed. The travellers coming from Israel or Jordan can buy their visa at the frontier town of Taba or the port of Nuweiba. The minors must be provided with an individual passport.
If you wish to know the last changes in this field, want to consult the site of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Arrival and continuation of the voyage: Egypt is a very popular tourist destination, because of its excellent tourist infrastructures, of sea-beds of the Red Sea, ideals for the diving, but especially because of its incredible archaeological treasures. This is why this country is served by the majority of the airline companies acting with the international level, and this, daily or all at least several times per week. The principal Egyptian airports, which are served for example by the national company Egypt Air (ms) or Air France (AF), are in Cairo (CAI), in Louxor (LXR), in Sharm el Sheikh (HS), in Hurghada (HRG), Marsa Alam (RMF) and Alexandria (ALY). The interior destinations like Abu Simbel (ABS), Aswan (ASW), Port Saïd (PSD) or St.Catherine (SKV) are served regularly by the national company Egypt Air.
Capital: Cairo, (which means in Arabic “the strong one”), is more the big city of the Arab world and account in its agglomeration, even if it is not official, much more than 25 million inhabitants, which accounts for approximately 30% of the total population. Cairo is the political, cultural, but especially economic center of all Middle East and has, beside Hollywood and of Bollywood, the third more important industry of film in the world. Cairo is a metropolis at the palpitating rate/rhythm, which never sleeps and which will offer an incredible variety of tourist curiosities to you having at the same time the charm of Africa and that of the East.
In Cairo, much of visits of the city start or finish on the place Midan Tahrir, on which the building of the Arab League is, but also the mosque of Oman-Makran, the regional station of bus and the subway. It is as there as one finds one of the first high-place of the city, the Egyptian museum. This museum has best and the most important of the collections of Pharaonic and Othoman art. Y are exposed single artefacts coming the last 5 millenia, the most known part, from its incredible richness, being the treasure, approximately 3300 year old old man, young Pharaon Concealed-Anch Amun. If you wish to have a beautiful sight on this city, which is the second plus big city of Africa, you can climb in top of the tower of Cairo, high 187 meters. One of the most interesting districts of the city is the hurdy-gurdy city, since 1979 pennies protection of UNESCO, and made up of impressive and single unit marrying Islamic architecture at the buildings high several stages in the French neo-classic style. The many mosques also make parts of the urban landscape, most interesting being those of Al-Azhar and Al-Hakim which date from the 10th century. The universally known bazaar of Khan Al-Khalili is him also impossible to circumvent. The inhabitants of the city are satisfied to call it “Khan”. It is one of the oldest markets of the world. Copper articles there are found and out of brass, clothing has made hand, of spices, the invaluable stones, of the jewels, but also, for a few decades, of the famous reproductions of antiquities. To appreciate this true “Eastern cinema”, nothing of such as a cup of tea in one the many coffees which one finds everywhere in the bazaar. It would be a shame not to grant a little time to the cemeteries of the city since they testify to the practice of the Pharaonic worship of deaths. The late one is not buried, as it is the case in the worships Christian and Islamic, but preserved in superb mausoleums including/understanding several rooms, if its statute and financial means of the family allows it. The body of late rests with the basement of the mausoleum in a stone sarcophagus decorated with worms extracted Coran, the mausoleums being daily maintained by people living in this “city deaths”. For the children, there is also the zoo of Cairo. It is largest of Africa. It is located just beside the university. But the principal center of attraction of the east city without any doubt the last of the wonders of the world of antiquity, Al-Dschiza pyramids. They belong to the most famous monuments and are called by the Egyptians “El Ahram”, which means “the sanctuaries”. They are located at approximately 15 km in the North of the downtown area, on the road of the pyramids, and are visible with several kilometers with the round. Largest of the Al-Dschiza pyramids is that of the Pharaon Khéops. It is built from more than 3 million blocks of stone and measurement 138 meters. Concurrently to this universally known pyramid is the Sphinx, a statue representing a being semi-man million with the head of Pharaon. It is advised to walk there to fallen the day, since, after laying down it sun, one can admire there a spectacle of lights impressing and unforgettable.
Places of interest: Beside the fantastic beaches and zones of diving around the Red Sea, it is before all the ancient archeological sites of the Pharaons who focus more the attention. It is also the field which brings back the most currencies to Egypt! Most important of these necropoles is without any Louxor doubt, on Western bank of the Nile, in higher Egypt, the area which contains the most archaeological treasures. A long time, Louxor was the capital and the religious center of the kingdom of the Pharaons. Among the monuments of the area, one can in the open air quote the museum, to which the Greeks gave the name of Thèbes-West, various doors, rooms, statues, course, obelisks and temples, most famous being that of Karnak. It largest of Egypt, is located at approximately 3 kilometers of Louxor. Time of the Pharaons, it was probably about the greatest religious complex in the world. Do not miss the sound and light which illuminates Karnak with fallen the night. In the surroundings also the funeral temple of the woman Pharaon Hatschepsut and the valley of the kings are. Other monument to be seen in the area are the temples of Esna, Edfu and Kom Ombo. They all are located at the South of Louxor and are very easily accessible with the boats of cruising or most traditional felouques. It is also of Louxor that cruisings towards Assuan and the universally known temple leave Abu Simbel, built in cliffs, at the Namibian border.
Places of bathe: The Red Sea is the place dreamed to bathe and especially to plunge. The Egyptian coasts of the edge of the Red Sea offer the most beautiful coral solid masses of the Northern hemisphere. You will find almost everywhere clubs of diving and what to equip you. The zones best equipped for that are around Sharm El Sheikh, Nueba, along the Golf of Aqaba, Ras Mohammed and around old the places of regrouping of Hippies, Dahab, which as is however not crammed tourists as Hurghada. The preferred places of the plungers are the solid masses of Shark and Yolanda Reef, in the national park of Short-nap cloth Mohammed, both having an abrupt coral wall, which, after only a few meters at sea, plunges to a 800 meters depth. Another places of interest on the peninsula of the Sinai, close to Sharm el Sheikh, is the monastery of St Catherine, on the crowned mountain of the Sinai, called “Djebel Musa” (the mountain of Brace) by the Egyptians. That made 1500 years that the monastery is at the place where Moïse found the burning bush. It is one of high the places of Christian spirituality. It is recommended to carry out the rise of this 2.285 meters high mountain during the night since the sight on the Sinai mount is particularly impressive with the rising of the sun. Moreover, the very high temperatures which prevail in the course of the day make the rise very tiring.
Religion: According to its constitution, Egypt is an Islamic state. Islam sunnite is the dominant religion (for more than 90% of the Arab population of origin). Come then the Christian minorities, most important being that of the orthodoxe coptes.
Big cities: Cairo, Alexandria, Gizeh, Suez, Louxor and Assuan.
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