CAIRO, Egypt – Kidnappers seized 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians during a Sahara desert safari to Gilf al-Kebir, a plateau famed for its prehistoric cave paintings. Egypt's foreign ...

He was eager to help but had no experience of desert driving, was based in Alexandria, 1000km away, and Egypt was undergoing a severe shortage of diesel. We crossed our fingers but had no idea of ...

Egypt has unveiled a national tourism investment strategy aimed at attracting 30 million visitors annually by 2031, with ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...

He had told me that one of his favorite hotels was a place called Adrère Amellal, which resembled a fortress made of sand in Egypt’s Western Desert ... with a safari hat to shield himself ...

lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...