Egypt

Who says Egypt, known as pyramids.

Their immense size and the precision of their line enchants us.

We cannot prevent  to question on the Pharaons who ordered their construction, on the architects which conceived them, on the workmen who built them and finally on the méprisables plunderers which devastated them.

This country, whose official title is the Arab Republic d' Egypt, has a surface of 1.002.000 km ².

Egypt is a country with Musulmane prevalence but which has a small community of Christians coptes. L' Arabic is the principal language but some Berber dialects are spoken in the areas about the desert. The green extent of the banks of the Nile shelters approximately 90% of the population of the country, the alive remainder in the oases isolated from the desert, the mountains of the desert of the Sinay or along the coasts of the Red Sea. The omnipresent desert, behind each hill, intensifies heat in summer and softens time in winter.

The Nile which runs millenia since was the witness of l' evolution of advanced civilizations as well as foreign invasions: Persians, Greeks, Arabs, the Turkish ones, French and British. L' history of ancient civilizations, engraved since unmemorable times on the walls of the temples, impresses and inspires all the travellers coming to visit this stone and sand country.

Egypt is much more than all that you can imagine: splendid oases, at the same time astonishing and mysterious monuments, a population which preserves a strong relationship to the past, the vast desert which surrounds them and the buildings hone some whose construction exceeds l' understanding. The wind of the desert will tell you however; it remains still more wonders to discover.