Find a Cairo coffeehouse to suit your own style; unwind, chat and inhale deeply over a sheesha Forget hot springs: try a hot sand bath in the middle of the desert Take belly-dancing lessons from the most famous teacher in Egypt Relax in the soft light of early morning on a Nile cruise
In This Guide:
Five authors, 295 days of research, hundreds of touts and a week-long scuba course Special chapter on cruising the Nile: choose from timeless feluccas and splendid dahabiyyas, the Rolls Royce of their era Illustrated Pharaonic Egypt chapter by world-renowned Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher brings the ancient rulers to life
Customer Reviews:
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Rating: - BUYER BEWARE
While the information in this book is excellent, the Kindle format is frustrating. 'Flipping' through the book is difficult, there is no access to the index, I found the hyperlinks almost always incorrectly linked. Worst of all, the maps are totally useless. They cannot be enlarged enough to make them legible and the numbered links are on another page. I'm here in Cairo now and I keep wishing I'd bought the paperback version.
Rating: - delivery
it is a great product. but actually the vendor is not responsive. I wrongly clicked the one-click button for ordering the product and I emailed the vendor right away through the communication system here. But no reponse and the product is still shipped to me and I have to take it.
Rating: - Lonely Planet - Egypt
The book is well written. For the most part it is informative and offers the necessary maps. Some of the maps for parts of Cairo are difficult to follow. Overall, very useful. I traveled all along the Nile from the North Coast to Aswan with just this book.
Rating: - Poor layout, bad maps
I bought this book (2008 edition) in preparation for a trip to Egypt, and I really do not like the layout. It seems like the historical info is scattered all over the place, whereas I wish they would just have it in one place either in the front or back of the book (obviously some of it has to be saved for the actual site reviews).
Maybe this is common to the Lonely Planet series, but I hate the maps and locations. The quality is poor and they are not laid out well in sections with ... Read More
Rating: - The best country guide out there.
One thing I like about any of the Lonely Planet (LP) guide books is the large amount of historical/cultural information it contains. The Egypt book is no exception to this. While other guidebooks have tons of pictures, Lonely Planet has tons of information: historical, cultural, travel tips, maps and hotel/restaurant/transportation guides. The history of a country is its soul. Its culture is its life. A tourist will have a deeper appreciation of a place (and its people) if he/she knows more about ... Read More
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