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At the North Eastern tip of Africa lie’s Egypt, sharing its western border with Libya and Easter with Israel and Southern border with Sudan. Egypt has the Red Sea on its eastern coast and the Mediterranean on its Northern. Egypt enjoys two real seasons’ mild winter from November to April and Hot Summer from May to October. The temperature in each season averages between 27 to 32 degrees centigrade in the summer and 12 to 21 degrees Centigrade in the winter. The dessert region in Egypt does vary quit wildly in the summer where it can be from as cool as 7 degrees in the night to a blistering 40 degrees during the day. Egypt’s population is low compared to its land mass with about 99% of its population using about 5.5% of the land available, this is because the majority of the people living in the country are located in the Nile Valley and Delta. Egypt is very famous for it’s ancient civilization, and it has some of the worlds most famous monuments including the Great Sphinx, and the Pyramids at Giza. At Luxor, a major city in the south of Egypt, you can find the Karnak Temple, and on the west bank of the Nile is the Valley of the Kings - a valley where, for around five hundred years from the 16th to 11th century BC tombs for the kings and nobles of the time where constructed. Luxor is sited on the ancient Theban city which was the capital of Waset the fourth upper Egyptian nome. It was capital of Egypt during part of the 11th dynasty, and most of the 18th dynasty as well. This area has been the focus for much archaeological exploration and this is where you will find the tomb of Tutankhamun. The largest city in Africa and capital of Egypt is Cairo, also known for being Egypt’s cultural and commercial centre. Cairo has much to offer with unique cityscapes, ancient mosques and modern buildings sited along side each other, however the journey through Cairo is like time traveling with building such as the hanging church, Cairo’s famous Coptic church which was built in the third century AD to the Mosque of Mohamed Ali build in the early nineteenth centaury. Cairo is known as 'Masr' by its local, this was the name of Egypt’s first capital fustat which translates to 'City of Tents'. The Nile valley in Egypt shows evidence of human habitation since the Paleolithic era and you can see this evidence in the form of artefacts and rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in the oases you come across in the surrounding desert. Egypt even has it’s fair share of modern resorts these are situated for the most part on the Red sea Riviera. Here you can enjoy the unbelievably clear blue waters and coral reefs that are teeming with marine life. For anyone interested, there are spectacular opportunities for snorkeling and scuba diving in this region.Egypt even has it’s fair share of modern resorts these are situated for the most part on the Red sea Riviera. Here you can enjoy the unbelievably clear blue waters and coral reefs that are teeming with marine life. For anyone interested, there are spectacular opportunities for snorkeling and scuba diving in this region.Egypt is very famous for it’s ancient civilization, and it has some of the worlds most famous monuments including the Great Sphinx, and the Pyramids at Giza. At Luxor, a major city in the south of Egypt, you can find the Karnak Temple, and on the west bank of the Nile is the Valley of the Kings - a valley where, for around five hundred years from the 16th to 11th century BC tombs for the kings and nobles of the time where constructed. Luxor is sited on the ancient Theban city which was the capital of Waset the fourth upper Egyptian nome. It was capital of Egypt during part of the 11th dynasty, and most of the 18th dynasty as well. This area has been the focus for much archaeological exploration and this is where you will find the tomb of Tutankhamun. The Nile valley in Egypt shows evidence of human habitation since the Paleolithic era and you can see this evidence in the form of artefacts and rock carvings along the Nile terraces and in the oases you come across in the surrounding desert.
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