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 ...

The trip to Egypt's White Desert wasn't smooth by any stretch. After waking up at 6 a.m. in Cairo, I was crammed into a van with a dozen others for the drive to the Bahariya Oasis, the jumping-off ...

IT has to be the worst place in the world to break down. Clouds of acrid smoke confirmed that the clutch of our Toyota Hilux had burned out and was beyond repair.

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

Seclusion has kept these desert gems, if not secret, then still wild. Egypt’s oases are time capsules of millions of years of human and natural history, from when whales had legs to the Roman ...

There is much more to be found in Egypt when straying from the usual tourist destinations. ... A journey into Egypt's western desert. The Week UK. Sat, May 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC.

The simple answer is no. Not all of Egypt, ancient or modern, qualifies as a desert. Areas near the Nile River tend to be lusher, and Egyptians — in both ancient and modern times — have had a ...

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 ...