The Mediterranean and Saharan north, including Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. Country guides for four destinations, with Egypt covered in depth.
Stone tiers of a Roman theater curve into a hillside at Djémila in northern Algeria.
Destination

Algeria

Seven World Heritage sites, more than any other country in this build, and a Sahara that current travel advice closes outright.
Aug 13, 2026 · 3 min read
Three levels of stone arcades on the outer wall of the Roman amphitheater at El Jem, Tunisia.
Destination

Tunisia

Carthage, the free-standing amphitheater at El Jem, and a whole island inscribed for the way people settled it: ten sites on a coast sold as a beach.
Aug 11, 2026 · 4 min read
Earthen towers and houses of the ksar at Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, above a wide river valley.
Destination

Morocco

Fez after ten centuries of building, the earthen ksar at Ait Ben Haddou, and a country whose entire World Heritage record is architecture.
Aug 11, 2026 · 4 min read
The Great Sphinx and a Giza pyramid floodlit in blue, red and purple after dark.
Heritage

An Introduction to Egypt

A Cairo tour operator introduces Egypt: its geography, the beliefs that raised the pyramids, and the country visitors meet today.

Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Sandstone columns carved with hieroglyphs rise into open sky at the temple complex of Karnak, Egypt.
Destination

Egypt

Pharaonic monuments, Coptic and Islamic Cairo, the Nile as a working river, and a Nubian south with its own history.
Jul 28, 2026 · 3 min read
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