Planning your elective--Egypt
BMJ 2001; 323 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0110384 (Published 01 October 2001) Cite this as: BMJ 2001;323:0110384
- Mark Wilson, senior house officer in intensive care medicine1
- 1University College Hospital, London and author of The Medics Guide to Work and Electives around the World
Up in the northeast corner of Africa, Egypt has so much to offer the visitor. Despite this it is not generally a popular elective destination. It has some amazing cities, with its capital, Cairo, being the largest city in Africa. Other places with fascinating histories include Alexandria and Luxor. East of the Suez Canal is Mount Sinai and Mecca. In the west you have the Pyramids in Giza and the Nile bisecting the country into arid and semiarid deserts. In the south is the Aswân Dam, which sadly is making the Nile increasingly saline.
Of course, for the divers out there, there is the Red Sea …
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