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The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide Travel Guides) [Paperback]

Dan Richardson (Author)
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Publication Date: 2 Aug 2007 | Series: Rough Guide Travel Guides

The Rough Guide to Egypt is your indispensable guide to the oldest tourist destination on earth. The full- colour introduction highlights 'what not to miss', from jeep or camel safaris in the Western desert to the pyramids and Sphinx at Giza. This fully-updated 7th edition includes expanded coverage of Nile cruises and diving in the Red Sea and Mediterranean, as well as up-to-date coverage of Cairo, with accommodation and restaurants conveniently organised by district. The guide includes brand new “authors picks” section highlighting all the top places to eat, drink and stay to suit every budget and new colour sections on temples, Islamic architecture and reef flora and fauna. The guide also takes a comprehensive look at Egypt’s fascinating history and culture and comes complete with maps and plans for every area.

The Rough Guide to Egypt is like having a local friend plan your trip!

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  • Paperback: 832 pages
  • Publisher: Rough Guides; 7 edition (2 Aug 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1843537826
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843537823
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 3.1 x 19.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 299,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dan Richardson has authored and co-authored guidebooks to Moscow, St Petersburg, Hungary, Budapest, Romania and Bulgaria.

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3.0 out of 5 stars I like rough guides but take prices with a pinch of salt 16 Dec 2007
By C. Frost VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Whenever I am going on holiday, one of the most exciting things for me is buying the rough guide before we go. On the rare occasion that I haven't done this i've felt I've gone into things blind and not taken the best choices in terms of trips etc.

This rough guide did prove invaluable on our trip to Sharm el Sheik and a day trip to Cairo, however the one thing I would question, and I find this is generally the case with Rough Guides, is that the prices quoted for meals and, in this case especially, taxis is often way out. We travelled only a month after this book was published, so I would expect it to be much more up to date than it was.

The info on Sharm was pretty basic for our needs (it focuses a lot on diving, which we didn't do), but when it came to Cairo we were able to plan an independent trip to the city, which as two lone women, we probably wouldn't have done without the info in the book. The friend I was travelling with was on a pretty tight budget, and didn't want to pay the £150 each that it would cost to travel with the tour operator. With the help of the book, we managed to find return flights for £45 each. However the taxis cost far more than anticipated. Aside from the £10 each way to Sharm airport, the prices in the book were wildly innacurate. We used taxis in Cairo from the airport to the pyramids, then to the museum and back to the airport. The book claimed we would pay just a few pounds for these trips, but although we tried to haggle we found that no one would give us a ride for less than about a tenner each way. Also, the book says that you can go outside the airport to find cheaper fairs, however, it does not say that it is almost impossible to get out of the complex as a pedestrian without walking about 2 miles and getting run over!... Read more ›
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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Guide Book Around 29 Aug 2007
By Mr. A. Hazan
Format:Paperback
Having just returned from backpacking in Egypt, I found that this book was the best of the bunch of guides floating around, specifically the lonely planet, for the following reasons:
1) It is generally much more comprehensive and interesting
2) It is far more accurate and up to date. Somethimes the LP was plain wrong.
3) It is not afraid to tell you if something is boring, uinlike the LP, where everything is amazing
4)Everyone else has the LP, and ends up at exactly the same hotels etc.

Basically, get the Lonely Planet if you want a list of hotels and restaurants. If you actually want something interesting to read, get the Rough Guide
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The standard I expect 7 Aug 2009
By Mr. Damian J. Gillespie
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As always from Rough Guides a comprehensive well written book. No hesitation in recommending this!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Informative 1 Nov 2010
By Saramis
Format:Paperback
I found that this guide-book fell between two stools, on the one hand its content is excellent, well-written in a highly accessable and informative style, on the other, at almost 900 pages it is bordering on being a hefty tome, and most impractical to carry and use when you most need it - on site. I hesitated to take it with me when I left for 10 days in Egypt, so heavy is it. An attempt to lighten appears to have been made by printing in a small font size that adds to its impracticality in the field as you have to take off your sunglasses, then fish around for your reading glasses (in my case normally seldom needed) so its weight and legibility rather defeats its main purpose as a provider of information to the tourist. Its good maps with reference numbers in the text are really most relevent on the spot.
The text is excellent, broadly encompassing a diversity of places of interest, much useful, positive, local information. Great book - to read when you get back to the hotel!
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5.0 out of 5 stars ROUGHLY DOES THE JOB 14 Jan 2010
By R. Baird
Format:Paperback
A GREAT GUIDE BOOK, MY GIRLFRIEND AND I ARE PLANNING A TRIP THIS SUMMER AND THIS BOOK HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM A GOOD BRAND LIKE ROUGH GUIDES. FULL OF VERY INTERESTING FACTS, HOURS OF READING. A GREAT VALUE GUIDE THAT CAN BE TRUSTED. PART OF THE FUN OF GOING ON HOLIDAY IS GETTING THE ROUGH GUIDE FIRST.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rough Guide to Egypt 29 Nov 2009
By D. F. Radcliffe
Format:Paperback
Delivered very quickly

This is an excellent book as are all Rough Guides.

Very good price.
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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible guide! 13 May 2010
By Flor Span
Format:Paperback
When I travel I stay away from tourist operators as I do not want to spend my entire holidays seeing the same faces... And so I usually organise everything myself. I have no delusions - these days there are no such thing as unexplored places, and there is no such thing as 'alternative' travelling. For me is just a matter of making sure I do not have to stick to some agency's plan. For the first time I decided to buy the Rough Guide. I could see something was deadly wrong when I realised that ALL Cairo and Sharm hotels I contacted on this guide's list only accepted bookings through tourist operators. I then decided to use the internet only. I tell you the WWW is a wonderful world, you do not need these guides - people set up pages, blogs with tips, the bus company in Egypt has a webpage through which you can chat, yes chat live with an operator in Egypt, who will tell you all you want to know about bus trips inside Egypt, and much more. Buses for instance, the Rough Guide gets it wrong and I wonder whether the author ever really took the bus from Cairo to Sharm and from Cairo to Dahab. This guide is really, really bad and I would advise you to save the money, do your research online, and get a Berlitz pocket guide instead - especially for Cairo, these are straightforward; the hotel recommendations on it accept private bookings; and the tips are most useful. WARNING - the Rough Guide tells you that bank cards work well in Egypt. Well, just so you know, not always. In fact when we arrived at the airport we could not withdraw money anywhere. As we trusted the guide, we had no money on us. So please do take some money with you just in case. Eventually we find a functioning cash machine, but do not trust solely on bank cards.
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