traveling in Egypt

Tourism is one of the most important sources of national income in Egypt, and the Egyptian people are accustomed to the presence of tourists in their midst since ancient times. Egypt is characterized by an abundance of tourist attractions of all kinds, because of the abundance of temples and monuments of Pharaonic which has cared for and invested tourist attraction, is also available tourism infrastructure, which includes star hotels and tourist villages and tourist agencies and airline offices, and is considered a tourist congestion in general in Cairo and Alexandria and the Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada and the Sinai and South Sinai, particularly in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba, where sports sport diving, which attracts tourists from around the world, particularly from Germany and Italy are a fan of this kind of sports, where that Egypt is characterized by Ali Alalhaab rare reef in the Red Sea and the types of fish that they held festivals and competitions fishing yacht, which comes to fishing enthusiasts of Egyptians and foreigners. 

1 tourist attractions in the Greater Cairo area 

Pyramids of Giza 

Pyramids of Egypt Pyramids Djizho Giza Plateau is located in the province of Giza in Egypt, the West Bank of the Nile River was built by about 25 centuries BC, about 2480 to 2550 BC. M, which is about three pyramids of Cheops is, Khafre and Menkaure. 

And pyramids is a graves ownership of all of them bears the name of the king who built and buried it after his death, and the construction pyramid here is the stage of the evolution of building tombs in ancient Egypt, which began crater small turned into a compartment under the ground and then to several rooms topped by a terrace and thereafter evolved to take the form of pyramid by architect Aamahotb Minister pharaoh Djoser in the Third Dynasty pyramid found in the necropolis of Saqqara, and was followed by two attempts of the king Bent founder of the Fourth Dynasty to build a pyramid full, but appeared pyramids is Salimi shape and are located in Dahshur, one Oblate Qaeda and the other took the form of a smaller yet half the size, and the engineer was able to engineer Hmeono King Cheops to reach the ideal shape of a pyramid and the construction of the pyramid of Cheops in Giza, on an area of ​​13 acres and was followed by a pyramid of Khafre and Menkaure.

- Egyptian Museum 

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Contains the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, although Navsh the British Museum and the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum (New York). And sits Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square the heart of Cairo since 1906, contains a museum exhibit on the impact of the Pharaonic 136 thousand, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of effects found in stores. 

Sections of the museum: 

Effects divided by their importance or the amount provided Kalksm sixth and seventh, arrangements either second, third and fourth were based on the chronological order and taken into account included the most important relics in the department and other key periods in another department, and as follows [1]: 

First Section: traces of King Tutankhamun toll, which the discovery of the tomb of one to one time period where the relics reached more than 3,500 relics of gold in addition to the mummies. 

Section II: the old state which is one of the prosperous periods in the history of ancient Egypt, a period of building the pyramids and the period of King Khufu, a period in which the rule of the four families of the governor, "the third of the sixth." 

Section III: Central State. 

Section IV: the modern state, which is the period of the empire of the great period of Ramses II and Tutankhamun and Akhenaten and Merneptah and Tuthmosis 

Section V: the family of "21 to 30" no access to enter the Alexander the Great to Egypt.

Section VI: Department of papyrus and currency, which were collected in which all the papyri. 

Section VII: section "Aldjaarin."