Egypt
- Snappy New Museum For Kom Ombo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The new Crocodile Museum stands on top of a 15-metre hillock on the doorstep of the Ptolemaic temple on the east bank of the Nile at Kom Ombo, where the ancient Egyptians worshipped the crocodile-headed Sobek, their god...
- Crocodile Museum To Open
Ahram Online (Nevine El-aref) Overlooking the Aswan Nile shore, neighbouring the ancient Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo, the first ever crocodile museum in Egypt is scheduled to be opened on Tuesday. The museum, which is dedicated to the ancient Egyptian...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/lifetravel/17102919&sec=lifetravel"We checked into a luxury cruise ship with five-star facilities for a three-day cruise on the Nile to Luxor. Old, romantic paddle-steamers like the Karnak...
- 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...
- The Nile In Style
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1866972,00.html A two-page travel article by Andrew Thomas about choosing to cruise the Nile by felucca instead of cruise ship: "Travelling by felucca is a mixture of sailing with the wind, drifting with the...
Egypt
Travel: Four night Nile cruise
http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,20986644-17102,00.html
One woman's not-so ecstatic trip on a short Nile cruise:
"There is an old Egyptian proverb: 'Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened.' Predictably, chump that I am, I'm sitting in the First Residence Four Seasons Hotel in Cairo, eating white chocolates and rejoicing prematurely. For, in the morning, I am to embark on a four-night Nile cruise. . . . We see two small ruins, one dedicated to Horus, the falcon-headed god and one to Sobek, the crocodile deity. We look at some mummified baby crocodiles. . . . Day four involves what the two single ladies call "the death march". Luxor: The Valley of the Kings and the Temple of Karnak – but why is every tomb the same? And where is the airconditioning?"
- Snappy New Museum For Kom Ombo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The new Crocodile Museum stands on top of a 15-metre hillock on the doorstep of the Ptolemaic temple on the east bank of the Nile at Kom Ombo, where the ancient Egyptians worshipped the crocodile-headed Sobek, their god...
- Crocodile Museum To Open
Ahram Online (Nevine El-aref) Overlooking the Aswan Nile shore, neighbouring the ancient Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo, the first ever crocodile museum in Egypt is scheduled to be opened on Tuesday. The museum, which is dedicated to the ancient Egyptian...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/lifetravel/17102919&sec=lifetravel"We checked into a luxury cruise ship with five-star facilities for a three-day cruise on the Nile to Luxor. Old, romantic paddle-steamers like the Karnak...
- 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...
- The Nile In Style
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1866972,00.html A two-page travel article by Andrew Thomas about choosing to cruise the Nile by felucca instead of cruise ship: "Travelling by felucca is a mixture of sailing with the wind, drifting with the...