Sunday, January 15, 2012

Advice for those who want to go to Egypt


Egypt is certainly a magical country that is able to win thanks to his charm made ​​of ancient history, a culture whose origins are lost forever and stunning scenery, the world that few others can match. Difficult to determine which are the most beautiful destinations in Egypt, but still it is possible to identify some of its most famous and popular tourist resort. Among the new entries in recent years point out once Marsa Alam, a small fishing village only a few years has been discovered by tourists, while striving to preserve intact its natural beauty that seems not yet been touched by mass tourism. If you seek peace, relaxation and simple contact with nature then a resort Marsa Alam is just right for you. Definitely the most developed tourist is instead Sharm el Sheikh, long one of the most famous places of Egypt, located in the southern part of the Sinai peninsula and lapped by the Red Sea. Impossible, then, forget the town of El questions, located along the southern coast of Egypt to the border with Sudan, just halfway between Hurghada and Marsa Alam, Dehab, a charming town on the southeastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula , once a small fishing village, now well-known seaside resort on the Gulf of Aqaba, Safaga, port and tourist center of the Red Sea, Hurghada, modern and fun town. Finally, among the last places in Egypt that have established themselves as tourist destinations of the first level, you must cite Port Ghalib is located along one of the most beautiful stretches of coast a few km from Marsa Alam.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Grand Egyptian Museum to open in 2015


Cairo - The Grand Egyptian Museum, which will house more than 100,000 artefacts and monuments from the pharaonic era, is to be inaugurated in 2015, Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said Tuesday.

It is considered to be the world's largest museum. Work on the third and final stage has started and will take up to three-and-a-half years and cost 300 million dollars, the minister said.

The 5-billion-Egyptian-pound (828-million-dollar) project is being built on 117 acres of land on the outskirts of Cairo.

It will also provide 20,000 new jobs at a time when the economy, in particular the tourism sector, has taken a major hit because of the unrest in the country since the popular revolt that led to the ouster of president Hosny Mubarak in February.

The current museum, which was inaugurated in 1902, is situated in central Cairo's Tahrir Square, which was the epicentre of the protests that forced Mubarak out of power.

The government listed 18 items that have disappeared during clashes between protesters and security forces.
The foundation stone of the new Grand Egyptian Museum was laid in 2002, to offer visitors more space as the Tahrir museum is overcrowded with artefacts that are not properly displayed.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Crocodile museum to open in Egypt

Alex Grenfell, age two, cautiously inspects the world's first full-size model of the biggest crocodile ever at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Nov. 2
The first “Museum of Crocodiles” will open this month in front of the Temple of Kom Ombo in Aswan, a busy tourist area on the East bank of the Nile, southern Egypt.
Forty mummified crocodiles of ranging in size from 1.5m long to almost of five metres long will be exhibited, according to Egypt's tourism authority.
The museum, which is opening in time for Aswan's National Day in January, will also feature statues of Sobek, known by Ancient Egyptians as 'the crocodile go