Egypt

Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian and traveler, once described Egypt as 'the gift of the Nile', and since long before the birth of Christ travelers have been drawn by images of pyramids, the Sphinx, ancient Luxor and the Nile river.

Mud-brick villages stand beside Pharaonic ruins surrounded by buildings of steel, stone and glass. Bedouins live in goatskin tents and farmers till the earth with the simple tools of their ancestors. Townsfolk dress in long flowing robes, others in Levis and Reeboks, and city traffic competes with donkey-drawn carts and wandering goats.

Nowhere are these contrasts played out so colorfully as in Cairo, a massive city thronged with people and ringing to the sound of car horns, boom boxes and muezzins summoning the faithful to prayer.

Egypt isn't all chaos and clatter, however. A cruise down the Nile is a must! The Red Sea is also a diver's dream dip.

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