THE CURATOR EDIT
Sometimes you don’t need immigration.
You need better ideas.
For complete disappearance: Siwa.
For actual winter sun: El Gouna or the Red Sea.
For culture without feeling like you’re on a school trip: Luxor + Aswan by Nile.
For one night away: Fayoum.
For summer: Ras El Hekma. Obviously.
None of this means don’t travel abroad.
I will be the first people telling you to book the flight.
But Egypt has a strange habit of being more exotic to the people flying into it than the people already living here.
I’m fixing that.
THE CURATOR SAYS: Before opening Skyscanner, look at the map underneath you.
My five choices have completely different reasons to go: Karnak and the West Bank in Luxor; felucca time and Nubian culture in Aswan; the oasis and guided desert excursions in Siwa; Tunis Village pottery in Fayoum; and a Bayoud boat day followed by the Sailing Club in El Gouna. The right one depends on the season and the kind of escape you want.