[[Roman Egypt|Egypt]] was the most popular area for tourists to travel to. The Romans viewed Egypt as exotic, mysterious, and ancient. Egyptian locals fed misinformation to the Romans to draw them in and profit off offrom them.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Perrottet |first=Tony |url=http://archive.org/details/route66adontrail00perr |title=Route 66 A.D. : on the trail of ancient Roman tourists |date=2002 |publisher=New York : Random House |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-375-50432-7 |pages=3–348}}</ref> [[Alexandria]] and the [[Egyptian pyramids|Pyramids]] were the most popular sites in Egypt.<ref name=":1"/> Alexandria's most popular attractions were the [[Serapeum of Alexandria|Serapeum]], the [[Musaeum]], and the [[Lighthouse of Alexandria|Pharos]]. Tourists would also visit the [[Apis (deity)|Bull of Apis]] in [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]] and the cities of [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] and [[Luxor]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Norman |first=Alex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o3lb7G0uPaMC&dq=tourism+economy+ancient+Rome&pg=PA80 |title=Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society |date=2011-11-24 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4411-5044-8 |pages=79–81 |language=en}}</ref> It was a tradition for Roman aristocrats and [[Roman emperor|emperors]] to sail across the [[Nile]] since [[Julius Caesar]] sailed across the Nile with [[Cleopatra|Cleopatra.]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Balsdon |first=J. P. V. D. (John Percy Vyvian Dacre) |url=http://archive.org/details/lifeleisureinanc0000bals_h0c4 |title=Life and leisure in ancient Rome |date=1969 |publisher=London, Bodley Head |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-370-00444-0 |pages=224–244}}</ref>
