EGYPT - LONELY PLANET

Sturdy softcover ex lib with protective laminated covering

Lonely Planet Guidebooks are renowned as being the best of the bunch, and for having the most of everything for that Overseas Experience. Written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip and help you stay longer, pay less and experience more.

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.

• 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 Joan Fletcher brings ancient rulers to life

9TH edition, 572 pages, published 2008