Tourism in Egypt

 Tourism in Egypt

Tourism is the most important sources of national income in Egypt, and the Egyptian people 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 pharaonic antiquities that have been cared for and invested tourist attraction, and tourism infrastructure, which includes five-star hotels and tourist villages, tourism and aviation company offices are available, and is considered a tourist congestion in general in Cairo and Alexandria and the Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada and the Sinai and especially South Sinai in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba, where sports sport diving, which attracts tourists from around the world and particularly from Germany and Italy a fan of this kind of sports, where Egypt is characterized 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 located Giza Plateau in 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 the pyramids is a Cemeteries ownership of each of them carrying a name of the king who built and buried it after his death, and construction pyramid here is the stage of the evolution of the graves architecture in ancient Egypt, which began as a small hole turned into a compartment under the ground and then to several rooms topped by a terrace and then evolved to take the form of pyramid by architect Aamahotb Minister pharaoh Zoser in the Third Dynasty pyramid found in the necropolis of Saqqara, was followed by two attempts of King Sneferu, founder of the Fourth Dynasty to build a pyramid full but the pyramids appeared non-Salimi shape and are located in Dahshur, one oblate-Qaeda and the other took the form smaller after half the size, and was able to engineer Hmeono King Khufu engineer 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

Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Contains the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, though Navsh the British Museum, the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum (New York). And sits Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo since 1906, the museum exhibition contains 136 thousand Pharaonic impact, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of effects found in stores.Sections of the museum:Effects of divided according to their importance or the amount provided Kalksm sixth and seventh, while the second arrangement, III and IV were based on the chronological order and taken into account include the most important relics in the Department and other key periods in another department, and as follows [1]:Section I: effects of King Tutankhamun's tomb, a death toll and the discovery of one period of time and one-hit effects which 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 four families governor, "the rule of the third sixth."Section III: Central State.Section IV: the modern state, which is the period of the great empire of Ramses II period and Tutankhamun and Akhenaten and Merneptah and TuthmosisSection V of the family "21 to 30" no access to the entry of Alexander the Great to Egypt.Section VI: Department of papyrus and currency, which brought together all the papyri.Section VII: "scarabs" section.