Hi,

in March I plan to drive by myself with a rental car from Giza to Luxor. There are different options and I wanted to check if you have any experience and can recommend a specific route.

Options I see:

1. Following basically the route along the Nile (along Beni Suef, Minya, Asyun, Sohag...)

2. There are (at least in Google Maps) couple of other options not far away from the Nile, like the route "75" east of the Nile river or there seem to be a larger road a bit to the West (outside the green area in Google Maps which represent the Nile are)

3. Travelling along the coast through Hurghada / Safaga

Any recommendations from travel time and saftey perspective?

Thanks

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So we are planning on taking a road trip to celebrate just getting married & we’ve been dying to go off-roading with my husbands f350! I have been talking about it and BAM it’s finally happening. So we are planning on going from NJ-AZ (the grand canyon) to then going to Yellow Stone and taking the most scenic routes possible through TX. Basically its going to be a long trip. We will be staying in the truck, because we want to do the whole camping everywhere thing. Get off our phones and computers, go hiking, camping in a different area everynight under all the beautiful scenic areas and the stars. 2020s been a year.. we all need a nice break.

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Thank you in advance!

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I was moderator of /r/overlanding for roughly 5 years. In that time I saw the community grow from a small handful of users to over 90k. Sadly in that time the quality of content took a nose-dive and it seemed people were more interested in sharing photos of their rig part on a dirt road or talk about their last 2 day camping trip than actually discussing overland travel. The key word being TRAVEL. Sad to say, but off-road car camping is not overland travel. There's more to it that that and that's what were here to discuss...