Egypt Handbook: With Eastern Libya

by McLachlan, Anne; McLachlan, Keith S.

• ISBN13: 9780844248943
• ISBN10: 0844248940
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Table of Contents

Egypt
Introduction	8	(5)
Travelling in Islamic Countries	13	(8)
The dress code	13	(4)
Forbidden places	17	(1)
Good manners	17	(1)
Religious festivals and holidays	17	(1)
Bureaucracy and the police	18	(1)
Internal security	19	(1)
Egypt	19	(1)
Libya	20	(1)
What to do if unrest occurs	20	(1)
History	21	(9)
Pharaonic Egypt	21	(1)
Greeks and Phoenicians	22	(1)
The Roman Empire	23	(1)
Christianity	23	(1)
The Islamic Period	23	(1)
The Great Dynasties and their successors	23	(2)
The Ottomans in North Africa	25	(2)
The Barbary Regencies	27	(1)
Colonialism	28	(1)
The Colonial Period in Libya	28	(2)
Wildlife	30	(4)
Mammals	31	(1)
Reptiles and Amphibians	31	(1)
River, Lake and Marine Life	32	(1)
Insects	32	(1)
Birds	32	(2)
Travel and Survival in the Desert	34	(5)
Travellers and the nature of deserts	34	(1)
Living with the climate	35	(2)
Transport and common sense in the desert	37	(1)
Emergencies	38	(1)
Jewellery and Dress	39	(9)
Horizons
The Land	48	(8)
Geography	48	(1)
Main regions	49	(1)
The Nile and man	50	(3)
Climate	53	(2)
Flora and fauna	55	(1)
Agriculture	55	(1)
Culture	56	(1)
People	56	(1)
Racial origins	56	(1)
Distribution/density	57	(1)
Age groups	57	(1)
Income per head	57	(1)
History	57	(9)
Muslim and Ottomans	63	(3)
Modern Egypt	66	(11)
Government	66	(1)
Economy	67	(3)
The new international context for Egypt	70	(7)
Around Egypt
Cairo	77	(74)
History	77	(5)
On arrival	82	(1)
Places of interest	83	(1)
Coptic Cairo	83	(9)
Islamic Cairo	92	(36)
Contemporary Cairo	128	(1)
The Egyptian Museum	128	(7)
The Museum of Islamic Art	135	(1)
Other museums	136	(2)
Gardens	138	(1)
Local information	138	(13)
Cairo Environs: The Pyramids and El-Fayoum	151	(24)
Saqqara	152	(1)
Zoser's funerary complex	152	(3)
South of Zoser's funerary complex	155	(1)
Northeast of the funerary complex	156	(1)
Northwest of the funerary complex	156	(3)
South Saqqara	159	(1)
The Pyramids of Giza	160	(2)
Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu)	162	(2)
Around the Cheops pyramid	164	(3)
Subsidiary pyramids	167	(1)
El-Fayoum and Lake Qaroun	167	(1)
Fayoum City	168	(3)
Excursions from El-Fayoum	171	(4)
The Nile Valley:
Middle Egypt (Cairo to Luxor)	175	(22)
Minya	176	(3)
Mallawi	179	(1)
Tell el-Amarna	180	(5)
Assiut	185	(2)
Sohag	187	(5)
Qena	192	(5)
Luxor and the West Bank	197	(67)
Luxor	197	(1)
History	197	(1)
Places of interest	198	(1)
Who's who in Ancient Egypt: Kings and Queens	198	(6)
Deities	204	(10)
Local information	214	(6)
Sites in Luxor and on the East Bank	220	(1)
Luxor Temple	220	(3)
Luxor Museum	223	(1)
Karnak Temple	224	(7)
The West Bank and Theban Necropolis	231	(2)
The Valley of the Kings	233	(9)
Deir El-Bahri	242	(3)
Tombs of the Nobles	245	(7)
Valley of the Queens	252	(4)
Private tombs	256	(2)
Other temples and sites	258	(6)
Luxor to Aswan	264	(15)
Esna	265	(2)
El Kab	267	(1)
Edfu	267	(5)
Kom Ombo	272	(7)
South of Aswan	279	(28)
Aswan	279	(17)
Lower Nubia	296	(11)
Nile Delta	307	(19)
Eastern Delta	308	(7)
Central Delta	315	(2)
Western Delta	317	(6)
Wadi el-Natrun	323	(3)
Alexandria and the Mediterranean Coast	326	(35)
Alexandria	326	(20)
West to Libya	346	(3)
El-Alamein	349	(3)
Marsa Matruh	352	(3)
Siwa Oasis	355	(6)
The Suez Canal Zone	361	(11)
Suez	361	(2)
Ismailia	363	(5)
Port Said	368	(4)
The Sinai Peninsula	372	(28)
The East Coast	372	(1)
Sharm el-Sheikh	373	(10)
North from Sharm el-Sheikh	383	(1)
Dahab	384	(2)
Nuweiba	386	(2)
Taba	388	(3)
The Interior	391	(1)
St Catherine's Monastery	392	(2)
Mount Sinai	394	(1)
Mount Catherine	394	(2)
The West Coast	396	(1)
Northern Sinai	397	(3)
The Red Sea Coast and Eastern Desert	400	(17)
Hurghada	401	(11)
El Gouna	412	(1)
Safaga	412	(2)
Quseir	414	(2)
Marsa Shagra	416	(1)
Berenice	416	(1)
The Western Desert and the Great Desert Circuit	417	(1)
The Great Desert Circuit	418	(1)
Bahariya	418	(3)
Bawati	421	(2)
Farafra Oasis	423	(1)
Dakhla Oasis	424	(3)
Kharga Oasis	427	(3)
Information for travellers	430	(501)
Air travel	433	(3)
Bargaining	436
Before travelling	430	(13)
Bicycles and motorcycles	443	(1)
Boats	444
Bus travel	443	(1)
Car hire	443	(2)
Communications	445
Credit cards	433	(1)
Currency	433	(2)
Customs	435	(10)
Entertainment	445
Entry requirements	430	(10)
Food and drink	440	(61)
Further reading	501
Getting around	442
Getting there	433
Health	432	(12)
Hitchhiking	444	(2)
Holidays and festivals	446
Hours of business	437	(8)
Language	445
Money	432	(5)
Official time	437
On arrival	436	(1)
Photography	437	(1)
Police	438	(7)
Postal services	445
Safety	438	(1)
Shopping	438	(6)
Taxis	444	(1)
Telephone services	445
Tipping	438
Travellers' cheques	433
Vaccinations	431
Visas	430	(1)
What to take	431	(1)
When to go	432	(7)
Where to stay	439	(1)
Women travelling alone	439	(9)
Excursion into Eastern Libya
Benghazi, the Jabal Al-Akhdar, Al-Khalij and the Oases of the South	448	(1)
Horizons	449	(13)
The Land	449	(4)
Culture	453	(1)
History since Independence	454	(3)
Modern Libya	457	(5)
Jabal Al-Akhdar	462	(17)
Derna	462	(2)
Travel in the Jabal Al-Akhdar	464	(1)
Susa (Apollonia)	465	(1)
Cyrene	466	(5)
Al-Bayda	471	(1)
Tolmeita (Ptolemais)	472	(2)
Benghazi	474	(5)
Al-Khalij	479	(12)
Sirt-the western entry to Al-khalij	485	(1)
Ajdabiyah and the road to Gialo and Al-Kufrah	486	(1)
Gialo	486	(1)
Al-Kufrah	487	(1)
Other desert oases	488	(1)
Al-Jaghbub	488	(3)
Information for travellers	491	(10)
Before travelling	491	(2)
Getting there	493	(1)
On arrival	494	(1)
Where to stay	495	(1)
Food and drink	495	(1)
Getting around	496	(1)
Communications	497	(1)
Entertainment	498	(1)
Holidays and festivals	499	(1)
Further reading	499	(2)
Rounding up	501	(13)
Acknowledgements	501	(1)
Further reading	501	(2)
Useful addresses	503	(2)
Health	505	(6)
Language for travel	511	(3)
Glossary	514	(2)
Conversion tables	516	(1)
Tinted boxes	517	(2)
Diagrams and plans	519	(3)
Index	522	(5)
Maps	527