Gamal Hamdan and Egypt

Gamal Hamdan 

( well known egyptian writer ) 
said in his book (personal Egypt) that the place is one of the governing community character and the collective conscience of the community. 

Egypt's strategic location made ​​it an official who is always around him,Or minimum term did not come from a vacuum. 

Egypt

is surrounded by desert to the east and the sea from the north and Sudan to the south and in the Levant from the East, which opened up the Nile from beginning to end has always been a place of invaders, all unanimously agreed on the importance and the desire to occupation, it is interesting to know that Egypt lasted thousands of years to come back and ruled by one of its sons, Abdul Nasser.

Hurghada - Egypt

Hurghada

It is a main tourist center and second largest city (after Suez) in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.

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 snorkelers. Hurghada stretches for about 36 kilometres (22 mi) along the seashore,
and it does not reach far into the surrounding desert.
The resort is a destination for Egyptian tourists from Cairo, 

the Delta and Upper Egypt, as well as package holiday tourists from Europe, notably Serbs, Italians, Russians, Poles, Czechs and Germans. Until a few years ago it was a small fishing village.
Today Hurghada  is divided into three parts:
Downtown (El Dahar) is the old part,
Sekalla is the city center,
and El Memsha (Village road) is the modern part.
Dahar is where the town's largest bazaar, the post office and the long-distance bus station are situated. Although a town in its own right Hurgada’s current major industry is foreign and domestic tourism, owing to its dramatic landscape, year-round dry and temperate climate and long stretches of natural beaches. Its waters are clear and calm for most of the year and have become popular for various watersports, particularly recreational scuba diving and snorkelling.

Sharm el Sheikh City

 Sharm Elsheikh

is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea.

Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate,which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai.

Sharm el-Sheikh is sometimes called the "City of Peace", referring to the large number of international peace conferences that have been held there. It was known as bay of the Sheikh during Ottoman rule and was known as Ofira during Israeli occupation between 1967 and 1982 .

 
Sharm el-Sheikh is on a promontory  overlooking the Straits of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. Its strategic importance led to its transformation from a fishing village into a major port and naval base for the Egyptian Navy. It was captured by Israel during theSuez Crisis of 1956 and restored to Egypt in 1957. A United Nations peacekeeping force was subsequently stationed there until the 1967 Six - Day War when it was recaptured by Israel. Sharm el-Sheikh remained under Israeli control until the Sinai peninsula was restored again to Egypt in 1982 after the Israel - Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979. A with this approach the Gulf of Aqaba zone was subdivided into four cities: Taba, Nuweiba , Dahab and Sharm El-Sheikh. 
Sharm el-Sheikh city has been subdivided into five homogeneous centers, namely Nabq, Ras Nusrani, Naama Bay, Umm Sid and Sharm El Maya. 
After Sinai was restored to Egypt in 1982 the Egyptian government embarked on an initiative to encourage continued development of the city. Foreign investors – some of whom had discovered the potential of the locality during the Israeli occupation – contributed to a spate of building projects.

The nightlife of Sharm El-Sheikh is modern and developed. The colorful handicraft stands of the local Bedouin culture are a popular attraction. A number of international hotels and noted restaurants are clustered around the centre of Sharm, known as Naama Bay.

Unfinished obelisk - Aswan

The unfinished obelisk

The Unfinished Obelisk
is the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt. It is unknown which pharaoh created this structure. 

It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected.
If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons.

Archeologists speculate that it was intended to complement the so-called Lateran Obelisk which was originally at Karnak and is now outside the Lateran Palace in Rome.

(Thutmose III obelisk in Lateran, Rome: 105 ft)

Aswan

Aswan is a city in the south of Egypt.  Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dams on the east bank of the Nile at the first Cataract . The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.

History

Aswan is the ancient city of Swenet , which in antiquity was the frontier town of  Ancient Egypt facing the south. 
Swenet is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name.

The city is mentioned by numerous ancient writers, including Herodotus,,Strabo,Stephanus of Byzantium,

Ptolemy, Pliny the Elder,De architectura, and it appears on the Antonine Itinerary.It also is mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Isaiah .

The Nile is nearly 3,000 yards wide above Aswan.From this frontier town to the northern extremity of Egypt, the river flows for more than 750 miles (1,210 km)

Valley of the Kings - Luxor

less often called the Valley of the Gates of the Kings  is a Valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, tombs were constructed for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom  (the 18th to the 20th Dynasties of Ancient Egypt)

The valley stands on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes (modern Luxor), within the heart of the Theban Necropolis. The wadi consists of two valleys, East Valley (where the majority of the royal tombs are situated) and West Valley. With the 2006 discovery of a new chamber (Kv63), and the 2008 discovery of 2 further tomb entrances ^, the valley is known to contain 63 tombs and chambers.

It was the principal burial place of the major royal figures of the Egyptian New Kingdom  , together with those of a number of privileged nobles. The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period. Almost all of the tombs seem to have been opened and robbed in antiquity, but they still give an idea of the opulence and power of the rulers of this time.

Karnak Temple

comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings. Building at the complex began in the reign of Sesostris I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was  the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head . It is part of the monumental city of Thebes. 

The Karnak complex takes its name from the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of el-Karnak, some 2.5 km north of Luxor. The complex is a vast open-air museum and the largest ancient religious site in the world. It is believed to be the second most visited historical site in Egypt, second only to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo.It consists of four main parts of which only the largest is currently open to the general public. The term Karnak often is understood as being the Precinct of Amun-Re only, because this is the only part most visitors normally see. The three other parts, the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Montu ,  and the dismantled Temple of Amenhotep IV , are closed to the public. There also are a few smaller temples and sanctuaries located outside the enclosing walls of the four main parts, as well as several avenues of goddesses and ram-headed Sphinxes connecting the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Amun-Re, and the Luxor Temple.