Egypt Tours with Nile Cruise: Let the River Do the Travelling Egypt has a geography problem that nobody puts in the brochure. The things you came for are strung out along hundreds of kilometres of river valley — Cairo and Giza in the north, Luxor in the middle, Aswan far to the south. Try to...Read More
Egypt Pyramids Nile Cruise: Two Halves of One Country, Joined by Water Egypt hands you two very different pictures, and almost every traveller wants both. One is stone and desert: the pyramids on the Giza plateau, sitting where the city stops and the sand starts. The other is green and moving: a river with temples...Read More
Nile Cruise and Stay: Unpack Once, and Let Egypt Come to You There’s a particular kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with jet lag. It’s the tiredness of the fourth hotel in nine days — the suitcase that never fully closes, the 6am lobby call, the corridor that smells like every other corridor....Read More
3 Night Nile Cruise: Sacred Waters, Aswan to Esna, on a Private Dahabiya Three nights sounds short. On the Nile, it isn’t — not if the boat is small and the river does the work for you. Our 3 night Nile cruise, which we call Sacred Waters, runs four days from Aswan to Esna aboard...Read More
Pyramids and Nile Cruise: Arrive at Giza by Water, Not by Airport Almost every Egypt holiday you’ll read about online splits neatly in two. A couple of days in Cairo for the Giza pyramids. A short hop by plane to Luxor. A few nights on a river boat. Back to the airport. It works, and...Read More
Nile Cruises 2026: Sail Egypt Slowly, on a Private Dahabiya Most people planning Nile cruises 2026 start in the same place: a search results page full of boats that all look faintly identical. Sun deck, pool, buffet, five stars, four nights. Somewhere around the ninth tab, a reasonable question arrives — is this the only...Read More
Luxor Egypt Solar Eclipse Tours · 2 August 2027 Luxor Egypt Solar Eclipse Tours 2027: Watch the Longest Totality of the Century From a Private Dahabiya Somewhere in the middle of a hot Monday afternoon, the light over Luxor is going to do something it has not done in living memory. Not dim. Not soften....Read More
Egypt Solar Eclipse Tour 2027: 8 Days on a Private Dahabiya, and 6 Minutes 23 Seconds of Totality For three thousand years, the priests of Thebes built an entire civilisation around the daily return of the sun. On Monday, 2 August 2027, the sun will vanish above them for six minutes and twenty-three seconds. You...Read More
Best 2027 Solar Eclipse Tours: 6 Minutes and 23 Seconds Above Ancient Thebes There’s a version of this trip where you land in Luxor, join a crowd of ten thousand strangers in a car park, hold a pair of cardboard glasses over your eyes, and hope for the best. And then there’s the version where...Read More
7 Nights Aboard a Private Dahabiya · Aswan to Luxor Solar Eclipse 2027 Cruise: Eight Days on the Nile, Six Minutes in the Dark On 2 August 2027, the Moon’s shadow sweeps across southern Egypt for 6 minutes and 23 seconds of totality — the longest total solar eclipse of the century. Sail the Nile...Read More
