Egypt
A don's life (Mary Beard)
A look at both the pros and the cons of a Nile cruise.
- Travel: Cruising On A Dahabiyya
Daily Mail (Wendy Gomersall) Fishermen in rowing boats just a few feet away from us slapped the river with big wooden bats to bring their prey to the surface. Farmers in long robes called galabeyas guided donkey carts loaded with sugar cane along the...
- 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...
- Travel: Experiencing An Introductory Nile Cruise
Telegraph Online (Maggie O'Sullivan) A travel article that looks briefly at some of the pros and cons of a Nile cruise. Although the experience of seeing some of the ancient Egyptian temples is described, this piece is more focused on what traveling...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-news/article2353922.ece"I had never really thought of us as ideal candidates for a cruise. Apart from being about 30 years too young, the long time spent on the water, the too-brief visits to dry land and...
- Travel: The Nile Cruise
http://tinyurl.com/raaxx (market-day.net) A better than average travel article explaining what can be seen on a Nile cruise, and putting it into historical context: "The main draw to Egypt is the legacy of the Pharaohs and the Greeks and Romans who ruled...
Egypt
Travel - a Nile cruise
A don's life (Mary Beard)
A look at both the pros and the cons of a Nile cruise.
We had picked on a boat called the Philae (owned by the Oberoi hotel chain), partly because it looked romantic and partly because every room has a balcony onto the river (why go on a Nile cruise if you cant gawp at the river whenever you to?). We had also splashed out on a bigger room, which turned out to be well worth it, as there was bags of space to swing a cat or two.
The views were stupendous (I thought that I was immune to that kind of thing... but I kept burbling all the time about how stunningly beautiful it all was) and the food a treat (Oberoi is an Indian chain and the curries were to die for . . . and the chef was so proud of his kitchen that he let you wander round it). As for cultural experiences, the high point was not a great monument of Egyptian antiquity, but going through the Nile lock at Essna where, in an engaging variant of squeezy merchants at traffic lights, a host of little rowing boats crowded around us throwing up all sorts of merchandise for inspection and possible purchase.
- Travel: Cruising On A Dahabiyya
Daily Mail (Wendy Gomersall) Fishermen in rowing boats just a few feet away from us slapped the river with big wooden bats to bring their prey to the surface. Farmers in long robes called galabeyas guided donkey carts loaded with sugar cane along the...
- 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...
- Travel: Experiencing An Introductory Nile Cruise
Telegraph Online (Maggie O'Sullivan) A travel article that looks briefly at some of the pros and cons of a Nile cruise. Although the experience of seeing some of the ancient Egyptian temples is described, this piece is more focused on what traveling...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-news/article2353922.ece"I had never really thought of us as ideal candidates for a cruise. Apart from being about 30 years too young, the long time spent on the water, the too-brief visits to dry land and...
- Travel: The Nile Cruise
http://tinyurl.com/raaxx (market-day.net) A better than average travel article explaining what can be seen on a Nile cruise, and putting it into historical context: "The main draw to Egypt is the legacy of the Pharaohs and the Greeks and Romans who ruled...