Travel Guides

Explore Minya beyond the usual tourist route. Discover Beni Hasan, Amarna, Tuna el-Gebel, Christian heritage sites and practical advice for planning your visit.

Discover Tuna el-Gebel, an ancient necropolis near Minya. Explore decorated tombs, sacred-animal galleries, Akhenaten's boundary stela and practical visiting advice.

Beni Hasan's Middle Kingdom tombs preserve extraordinary scenes of wrestling, crafts, hunting, warfare and foreign visitors. Here's what you can see and how to plan a visit from Minya.

Yes, you can visit Amarna—but Akhenaten's former capital is very different from Egypt's major monumental sites. Here's what you can see, how to get around and how much time to allow.

Explore Egypt's Christian heritage through historic churches, desert monasteries, Holy Family sites, early Christian archaeology and biblical places from Alexandria to Sinai.

Follow the Holy Family tradition across Cairo, from Musturud and Mary’s Tree to Haret Zuweila, Abu Serga and Maadi, with practical advice for deciding which sites to visit and how to connect them.

Follow the traditional Holy Family route through Egypt, from the Nile Delta and Cairo to Wadi El Natrun, Minya and Asyut, and discover which sacred sites can still be visited today.

Deep in Egypt's Eastern Desert, St. Anthony and St. Paul preserve one of the country's most important Christian landscapes. Learn what to see at both active monasteries, whether to climb to St. Anthony's cave, and how to plan the journey.

Nuweiba combines quiet Gulf of Aqaba beaches with some of South Sinai's most interesting desert landscapes. Compare camps, canyons, snorkeling and nearby mountain experiences before deciding how long to stay.

Colored Canyon near Nuweiba takes you away from South Sinai's Red Sea coast and into a narrow desert gorge shaped by water and streaked with mineral colors. Here's what to know before you go.

Follow the Holy Family tradition through Egypt's Nile Delta, from ancient Tell Basta and Belbeis to the churches, wells and relic traditions of Samanoud and Sakha.

Minya preserves Holy Family pilgrimage sites, ancient monasteries and important early Christian archaeology. Here's what you can visit and how to plan the region without spending the day racing between distant sites.