Slow travel means staying in one region long enough to get to know it: eating where local people eat, learning a few dishes, and spending your days with fishermen, farmers and Bedouin families rather than rushing between monuments. These trips are based in Alexandria and its countryside, at an unhurried pace with a private guide.

Choose the 8-day Alexandria food and slow travel tour, built around cooking classes, markets and street food; the kayaking and fishing trip on the Eastern Harbour and the lakes of Edku and Mariout; or Explore Alexandria, a week among the city’s churches, mosques, synagogue and old Greek quarter.

Accommodation and transfers are arranged for you, and each itinerary can be adjusted to your interests. For more on the city itself, see our guide to the Library of Alexandria.