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CAIRO was founded on the site of Babylon, near the ruins of ancient Memphis, Cairo has been the largest city in the Africa for centuries. Five thousand years of culture are concentrated here, at the center of three continents.

THE SPHINX, "Sacred symbol of the union of the strongest physical with the highest intellectual power on earth."
- Harriet Martineau on the Sphinx, 1848.

THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM is one of the world's most famous museums, built by a French architect between 1897 and 1902. The magnificent collect of antiquities includes mummies, sarcophagi and the fabulous treasures from Tutankhamun's tomb

SHOPPING ranges from the famous Khan el-Khalili souk, largely unchanged since the 14th century, to modern air-conditioned centers displaying the latest fashions. Good buys are spices, perfumes, gold & silver, glass ceramics and mashrabiya.

LUXOR is part of ancient Thebes: "the one hundred -gated city" as it was called by the renowned Greek historian, Homes because of its buildings and large gates. The city grew over the years, and the Arabs, impressed by its beautiful places and huge edifices, re-named it "Luxor" : City of Palaces.

ASWAN , Egypt's sunniest southern city and ancients frontiers town, has a distinctively African atmosphere. Here the Nile is at its most beautiful, flowing through amber desert and granite rocks, round emerald islands covered in palm groves and tropical plants.