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Golf in front of 4000 year Pyramid

5 to 6000 year old! Egypt is with China the eldest civilization. So well organized and so prestigious that it became the cradle of all our civilizations even the most modern lifestyles! In exchange, Egypt borrowed from modernity cars (Cairo drivers are known for their day and night double- touch hooting) and golf, which, even if a course lays just in front of the Gizeh pyramid, has not been invented by the Pharaohs.

by R. Bourne - Photograph C. Jaricot

Cairo, February 2005
Facing the Cheops pyramid from the second tee of Mena House course, one can remember the famous Napoleon’s jest to his soldiers: “from the top of this pyramid 4000 years look at you”! If his military expedition was not a success, on the other hand his inventory mission of Egyptian historical treasures, the first of its magnitude, made by his team of hundreds of scientists is still considered as the basic stone of the revival of ancient Egyptian story and the birth of an attractiveness called nowadays tourism..

The Sphinx, the Nile, pyramids and temples in Memphis, Karnak, Luxor, Asswan, Abu Simbel, royal tombs in the valleys of Kings and Queens have drained off archaeologists from around the world as well as millions of tourists curious about discovering relics of such a prestigious past.

The Pharaohs monuments have drawn travellers to this country since long before the birth of Christ (Greeks, Romans, Turks, Christians, Islamic…) to admire the profusion of art and architecture accumulated during millenniums of successive dynasties. Nowadays old ruins stand still beside mud-brick villages where folk in flowing robes drive quiet asses loaded with wicker baskets while muezzin summons the faithful to prayer and a lazy punt sails down the Nile. Out of the jammed cities, folks still trek across the sands on camels.

Egypt is home of human genuine history and here time is not money. So if service is a bit slow or traffic really jammed, never loose the local sense of humour, the famous Egyptian I B M : Inch Allah, (thanks God) Boukhra (to morrow), Maalesh (maybe)! And enjoy your visit to royal treasures or your golf along the Nile or the Red Sea under the year round sunshine of God Rhâ!

With already a dozen courses and as many in project, M Ahmed El Maghrabi, ministry of Tourism, wants to put Egypt on the map of international golf destinations considering that golf, conducted in very professional ways (designers, managers…), will be part of the strategy of a successful development of tourism in Egypt for the ten coming years.

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Golf in front of Cheops pyramid

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