Cairo (Arabic transliteration: Al-Q?hirah), which means "The Vanquisher" or "The Triumphant", is the capital city of Egypt. It is the largest city in Egypt and Africa's most populous city.

Hurghada (ar.: Al Ghardaqah) is an Egyptian city and a tourist center on the Red Sea. The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea. Holiday villages and hotels provide aquatic sport facilities for sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorklers. Hurghada stretches for about 40 km along the seashore, and it does not reach far into the surrounding desert. Images are from the Grand Seas Host Mark hotel situated south off the international Airport at N27 06.963 E33 49.532

Luxor is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. Its population numbers 376,022 (1999 survey), and its area is about 416 km? [1]. As the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterised as the "world's greatest open air museum", the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the Nile River, lie the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.

Images of Al-Mahmya, a tourist facility on the protected Giftun island off the coast near Hurghada (aka Paradise beach)