Egypt as a country for tourists. Tourist information about Egypt.

You as a tourist would proberbly want to get as much information as possible before going to Egypt.
Egypt has as you proberbly know a desert climate, this means that the summers are dry and the temperature can rise to 40 degrees celsius. The Winters are milder.
This also makes this country such a nice country to be in the entire year.
The capital of Egypt is Cairo.
Timezone for Egypt is GMT+2.
Languages: Arabic is spoken by everyone, but alot of people in the touristindustry aswell as in the areas where tourists visit will speak English aswell as sometimes french.
Electricity: There is 220 V as we from scandinavia are used with, so there is no need for converters.
Currency: Egyptien Pounds (EGP or LE). 1 Egyptian Pound or LE is 100 piaster. Make sure you look at the bills when you get them, the 50 piaster can be hard to tell from the 50 EGP bill. So it can be easy to confuse these two with each other.
It could also be a good idea to bring either Euro or US dollars. This is that most tourist attractions wants that you pay in US dollars or Euro.
Bargain: It's possible to bargain for prices. As a rule you should think that you can bargain and get a closing price that is 50-60% of the original price.
Tip: Its recommended that you tip. 10 % rule will work just fine.

Tourist attractions in Egypt

There are alot of tourist attractions in Egypt. Here is two of the largest ones.

The pyramids in Egypt

The pyramids in Egypt was built to show how much power a pharao had. When the pharao dies he and his mistresses was buried in the pyramids.
The largest and most famous pyramids is the Cheops pyramid, Chefren aswell as Mykernios.
The Cheops pyramid is over 140 meters high and more then 200 meters wide.

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a treasure chest for us divers.
To dive and/or go snorkling in the Red Sea is something above other tings.
When you go down for not more then 50 cm you will see more colorfull fishes then you could imaginge.
If you go out further you will have the possibility to see sharks, stingrays etc.






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