Egypt
Cruise Critic
This has been announced before, without happening, but this article seems convincing enough.
- Egypt’s Tourism Gets Boost As Historic Nile Cruise Set To Return
Bikya Masr Sailing the Nile River in Egypt has always been a huge tourism boost for the country, but for the past 16 years, the an historic route on the river had been put on hold. Now, tour operators and the ministry of tourism are hopeful restarting...
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- Travel: Cruising The Nile By Felucca
The Star Online (Revathi Murugappan) Instead of taking a five-star cruise on the Nile, try the felucca. For a long time in the past, travelling in Egypt meant sailing the Nile since the world’s longest river was the main transport corridor. The river...
- Beyond The Nile Cruise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101400882.htmlAn article about visiting Egypt as a tourist: "It may be some sort of mummy's curse. Nearly all of us who visit Egypt will find ourselves on a Nile cruise. But it...
- Tourist Cruise Ships Contribute To River Pollution
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/In an article discussing the pollution of the River Nile, Nile tourism is cited as a contributing factor: "Another problem is created by tourist cruises, floating houses and the river commercial fleet comprised of...
Egypt
Egypt to Reopen Lower Nile for Two-Week River Cruises
Cruise Critic
This has been announced before, without happening, but this article seems convincing enough.
Egypt's tourism authority has announced that the river Nile will be opened up for the resumption of the "long Nile cruise," the full 14-day voyage all the way from Cairo to Aswan.
Egypt's new minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, said at a press conference in London yesterday that the cruises on the Lower Nile (confusingly, the northerly stretch of the river between Cairo and Luxor), would resume after a 16-year break. This is part of a plan by the Egyptian government to boost tourism numbers, which plummeted by 80 percent in February this year following the uprisings of the Arab Spring.
Currently, Nile cruises only operate between Luxor and the southerly city of Aswan; this stretch is known as the Upper Nile. There are virtually no licenses for operators to sail north of Luxor, so a typical visit to Egypt includes a few days in Cairo -- to visit the pyramids, the Museum of Antiquities and the Sphinx -- followed by a flight south to cruise the Upper Nile for up to a week.
The longer cruises, which take between 11 and 14 days, were stopped in 1994 for various reasons, including security concerns and the fact that the river was becoming severely silted up.
- Egypt’s Tourism Gets Boost As Historic Nile Cruise Set To Return
Bikya Masr Sailing the Nile River in Egypt has always been a huge tourism boost for the country, but for the past 16 years, the an historic route on the river had been put on hold. Now, tour operators and the ministry of tourism are hopeful restarting...
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- Travel: Cruising The Nile By Felucca
The Star Online (Revathi Murugappan) Instead of taking a five-star cruise on the Nile, try the felucca. For a long time in the past, travelling in Egypt meant sailing the Nile since the world’s longest river was the main transport corridor. The river...
- Beyond The Nile Cruise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101400882.htmlAn article about visiting Egypt as a tourist: "It may be some sort of mummy's curse. Nearly all of us who visit Egypt will find ourselves on a Nile cruise. But it...
- Tourist Cruise Ships Contribute To River Pollution
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/In an article discussing the pollution of the River Nile, Nile tourism is cited as a contributing factor: "Another problem is created by tourist cruises, floating houses and the river commercial fleet comprised of...