Cultural Tour

Voltage

The voltage is always 220 V in all tourist establishments.

Religion

Around 80 % are Muslims and approximately 20% are Coptic Christians.

Population

The population of approximately 70 million people is concentrated along the Nile, on 5% of Egypts total area. 16 million people or more live in Cairo and its suburbs. Other large cities are Alexandria, Mansoura, Tanta, Zagazig, Ismailia, Suez, Port Said, Aswan and Luxor ).

Currency

The Egyptian pound (LE) is the official currency. One LE consists of 100 piasters. Bills of the Egyptian pounds are of 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 pounds value and 25 and 50 piasters One US dollar equals approximately LE 6.15 for daily current exchange rate: Todays Exchange Rate. There are banks in al

Egyptian food

Egyptian food is very rich and tasty, the Egyptians eat a substantial amount of bread and drink too much water with their meals. Typical Egyptian bread is made of leavened wheat flour in hollow round flat loaves. In rural areas, bread is made of unleavened maize flour.

Egyptia

Language

Arabic is the Official Language, while English and French are widely spokenby educated classes.

Clothing

Egypt has a long summer, from April until the beginning of November with temperatures during daytime between 25° and 40° C. Daytime temperatures during winter vary between 15 and 28 degrees. Temperatures in Upper Egypt (south) are usually 5°C higher than Cairo and the rest of the north of Egypt.
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History

Remains dating from the Egyptian Paleolithic period are some of the oldest in the world, but it is of course the pharonic era that made Egypt famous and unique.

Egypt, or Kemet as it was called in pharaonic time, was unified around 3000 B.C. Old Kingdom, or the Pyramid Age, la

Egypt Geography

The area of the Arab Republic of Egypt is more than 1,000,000 km². Its borders stretch from the Mediterranean in the North, where the Nile meets the sea, to the borders of Sudan, Libya and over the Sinai Peninsula to the borders of Israel and by sea, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Nile (the wo