7 days of Fun, Egypt travel guide
This is a travel guide to Egypt for tourists to know what
they need to plan a holiday to Egypt. Some of the
information listed here may vary from time to time so it
will be good to visit this page every now and then to get
updated information. We hope you enjoy your vacation in
Egypt and come back for many visits.
Egypt travel articles
Standard Egypt local time: GMT +2, Clock is moved one
hour forward standard time as per the following schedule:
Egypt summer daylight saving time starts at midnight (12:00
AM ) on the last Friday in April and ends last Thursday in
September.
The currency of Egypt is the Egyptian pound or Livre
Egyptien (in French) and is abbreviated as LE. The pound is
divided to 100 piastres. The current average exchange rate
of the pound is 5.45 X USD (subject to daily change) .
Egyptian banknotes and coins are as follows:
Egyptian banknotes
A few years ago all money in Egypt had banknote version
starting from small cash like 5 or 10 piastres, but now the
lowest Egyptian banknotes of value is the five pounds. Other
bills are the ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred and two
hundred bills. here are photos and information about
banknotes in Egypt.
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Egyptian coinage
Egyptian coins are made of copper and silver alloys,
round in shape and have embossed pharaonic and Islamic style
pictures and calligraphy. Coins replaced the banknotes of
values less than 5 pounds. Coins are difficult to carry so
be careful when you have some of them in your pocket, you
can put them in a wallet with a zippered pocket or coin case
(which is rare ) or you can put them in your jacket pocket.
Half Pound Coin & Banknote The 50
piastres coin is produced from specific metals.
banknotes of this unit have been cancelled by the
Egyptian financial authorities a few years ago. |
One Pound Coin & Banknote A few
years ago the Egyptian pound was issued only in
banknote but now you can only find it as a coin as
the Egyptian government decided it is cheaper to
produce coins and cancelled printing of the one
pound note. |
|
City |
Km |
miles |
City |
Km |
miles |
Abu simbel |
1235 |
768 |
Ismailia |
135 |
84 |
Alexandria |
217 |
135 |
Kharga Oasis |
575 |
359 |
Assiut |
386 |
231 |
Luxor |
679 |
422 |
Aswan |
926 |
578 |
Port Said |
212 |
132 |
Damietta |
295 |
190 |
Siwa Oasis |
700 |
437 |
Hurghada |
510 |
317 |
Suez |
129 |
80 |
Alexandria |
3 |
Hurghada |
653 |
Arish |
68 |
Luxor |
952 |
Assiut |
882 |
Mansoura |
50 |
Aswan |
972 |
Marsa Matrouh |
46 |
Cairo |
2 |
Port Said |
663 |
Damietta |
57 |
Rafah |
68 |
El Dakhla |
92 |
Safaga |
653 |
El Fayoum |
84 |
Sharm El Sheikh |
693 |
El Minia |
86 |
Taba |
693 |
Giza |
2 |
6th october |
2 |
Ismailia |
64 |
10th Ramadan |
15 |
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