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Egypt
Pyramid
selling
As Egypt’s sales spiral, don’t limit your commission to
owse flights and hotels. Pre-book excursions and activities
K
eith Pr
– and enhance your earnings, says Philippa Jacks
staying in Taba Heights can take a day trip
ALEXANDRIA. GIZA.
with Peltours at £122, or an overnight trip
On Egypt’s north coast, Alexandria is the The icons at Giza, just outside Cairo, need including a five-star hotel costing £195.
country’s largest port, and has more of a no introduction. The three Great Pyramids,
Mediterranean feel. It was founded in 331BC guarded by the Sphinx, form Egypt’s best-
SINAI PENINSULA.
and was famous for its massive library and loved tourist spot. Giza can be combined Mount Sinai is an attraction in itself – it’s
for being the site of the world’s first ever with a tour of Cairo, but there’s enough to the mountain Moses is said to have climbed
lighthouse (one of the Seven Wonders of merit a day or half-day tour on its own. to receive the Ten Commandments. It is also
the Ancient World). Attraction World (AW) has a half-day tour at home to Monastery of St Catherine, the
The Roman ampitheatre and Greco- £38 and a full day at £70. Clients should be oldest monastery in the world, still inhabited
Roman Museum are other points of interest. aware there is an additional charge to enter by Greek Orthodox monks today. Attraction
Do Something Different (DSD) sells a day tour most of the pyramids. The sound-and-light World and Keith Prowse sell tours which
which departs from Cairo and lasts 10 hours, show which takes place at night is also very combine the monastery with shopping in
from £117. Keith Prowse Tickets (KP) has a day popular (AW £32, KP £35, DSD £31). Dahab, both of which depart from Sharm
tour from Cairo for £150 including lunch. el Sheikh (AW £75, KP £92). For more
CAIRO.
adventurous clients, suggest Do Something
City tours vary but often include the Citadel Different’s Mount Sinai Sunrise Experience
Alexandria of Saladin and the Khan El Khalili Bazaar. priced at £53, which involves a 1am start
An Old Cairo tour might take in the Roman and a climb to the top of the mountain in
Fortress of Babylon, the Hanging Church time to watch the sun rise, before going to
Giza
Cairo
Taba
and Ben Ezra Synagogue (DSD £29). With the monastery.
Sinai
120,000 artefacts, it’s a shame to rush the
Peninsula
Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, where
RED SEA RESORTS.
Dahab
Tutankhamun’s treasures are on show. Do One of the biggest attractions at Red Sea
Something Different sells a museum tour, resorts is the diving and snorkelling. Peltours
Sharm el Sheikh
lasting three or four hours, at £32. has pre-bookable, commissionable Padi
Clients staying on the Red Sea can visit diving courses at Taba Heights priced from
Hurghada
Nile Cairo in a day. Attraction World has a bus £195 for a five-day Open Water course.
tour from Sharm el Sheikh at £169. But it’s Attraction World has also started selling
a long slog – six hours each diving options. A one-day
t
p
Karnak
way, departing at 1am and dive experience costs £77 at
y
Luxor
returning at 3am the following Hurghada, Sharm and Marsa
g
day. Flying to Cairo is a Alam; a four-day Padi Open
E
Marsa Alam
more comfortable option Water qualification costs £312
y
Aswan
– Attraction World has at Hurghada and Sharm.
air trips from Sharm at
uthorit
The operator has a range of
£257, Do Something
ourist A
snorkelling, dolphin and
Lake
Different has them eco-experiences at these Nasser
yptian T
from Luxor at Eg three resorts.
Abu Simbel
£265. Clients Coloured Canyon, Sinai A camel ride with Bedouin
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