If you’re planning a trip to Egypt you may be wondering where to start. Egypt travel can be overwhelmingly full of options, tips, considerations and places to visit.

Trying to sum it all up in a blog article would be ridiculous. However, I’m here attempting to provide an answer to the question:

¿If I have limited time and money to go to Egypt, what are the main sites I should see so that I would get a sense of the ancient civilization that still marvels us today?

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So you’re just as fascinated as I am with ancient civilizations and you’d love to start thinking about Egypt travel.

But where to begin?

If you think about it the ancient Egyptians enjoyed 3000 years of civilization, whereas we are barely reaching 2013.

They are so ancient, so foreign to us westerners…. And yet so unbelievably fascinating… It’s clear that we wouldn’t be able to see it all in a single trip.

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Most people (me having been one of them) don’t know what the Sacred Valley is and think Machu Picchu is an isolated city hidden in the Andes of Peru.

In actuality Machu Picchu is just one of the many sites that the Incas built from 1438 to 1533, when the Spanish conquest led by Francisco Pizarro destroyed this magnificent civilization.

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500 years ago this coming October, Michelangelo, one of the stars of the Renaissance, delivered the finished project of the Sistine Chapel ceiling to Pope Julius II who had commissioned it.

It has been wowing people ever since as one of the masterpieces of all time. The Sistine Chapel is one of those must see unavoidable experiences of every cultural traveler.

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I can’t remember the first time I learned about Hagia Sophia, but this magnificent structure has been on my mind ever since.

The incredible jewel of Byzantium, the precious possession of emperors, a building so beautiful that it became the model for many other less grandiose creations.

How intriguing to learn about it’s history, the different functions it has served, the different architectural elements that form it, the different faiths that have claimed it…

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