Egypt has stayed calm through a difficult year in the region. Here is what the advisories actually say, what they mean for Siwa, and what Jewish travellers should know.

An Egyptian founder answers the question travellers actually ask: where tourism money really goes, whether boycotts help, and why we refuse camel rides at the pyramids.

Spain, North Africa or Egypt? The 2027 eclipse lasts longest over Luxor, 6 minutes 22 seconds, under the clearest skies on the path. An Egyptologist makes the case.

From first contact at 11:40 to the diamond ring at 13:02, a minute-by-minute guide to the longest totality on land this century, written from the Nile.

Luxor's temples, the open Western Desert, or a dahabiya on the Nile: an honest comparison of the three ways to spend the six minutes of 2 August 2027.

Floating hotel or traditional sailing houseboat? A founder who has worked both weighs price, access, pace and quiet, including what the big ships do better.

From Sinai's mountains to the Western Desert, where Egypt's true dark skies survive, what the Bortle scale means, and how the pharaohs' astronomers saw the same night.

A two-masted sailing boat, a handful of cabins, and riverbanks the big ships never touch. What a dahabiya is, where the name comes from, and why we sail no other way.

Long before telescopes, Egypt kept time by the stars. Karnak's solstice axis, the Dendera zodiac, and the calendar the sky wrote: a short history of watching the heavens from the Nile.

Egypt has no bad months, only different ones. An honest guide to the seasons: when the light is soft, when the crowds thin, and when the river is at its best.

On 2 August 2027, the Moon's shadow crosses Egypt, and for six minutes and twenty-three seconds, midday turns to midnight. What happens, when, and why Luxor is the place to stand.

Of every hundred dollars spent on holiday in a developing country, as little as five stays there. Ethical travel, stripped of the tote bags and towel notices, asks one concrete question, and in Egypt, it is not abstract.