Egypt (Thomas Cook Travellers S.) - Softcover

A travel guide to Egypt, seeking to give the reader a flavour of the country: hieroglyphics, the Suez Canal, the Nile, the desert and the Red Sea reefs. There are details and maps of Cairo and its immediate environs, Luxor and Aswan. Mapped walks and driving tours take you through locations such as Ibn Tulun Mosque, Coptic Cairo, Giza to Saqqara, and Alexandria. There is information on accommodation, restaurants and cafes to suit every budget. The volume is accompanied by a free CD-ROM, tailored to the destination and packaged in a plastic wallet inside the book's back cover. Containing an introduction to the destination, pictures and music, the CD offers selected Web links to take readers directly to Web sites relevant to the destination.