On the upper floors of a building above the Baby Home clothes store and opposite the Omar Effendi department store, this hotel is basic but has OK rooms with air-con, clean bathrooms and old TVs. Try El Massa Hotel first.
Horus Hotel
Southern Nile Valley
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Cut into the ridge across the road from the village of Al Kab is a row of tombs. The most interesting is No 2, from the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC), which…
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28.92 MILES
Built in 1082 AD, this Fatimid minaret is one of the oldest in Egypt. The various layers, square base, cylindrical upper part, concave octagonal drum and…
28.93 MILES
Construction of the Temple of Khnum, the ram-headed creator god who fashioned humankind on his potter’s wheel, was begun by Ptolemy VI Philometor (180–45…
28.96 MILES
The best-preserved of the caravanserais in Esna, the beautiful Wikalat Al Gidawi was named after the merchant Shahbandar Al Tuggar Al Sayed Hasan Al…