Egypt Travel Guides

There Is a Particular Sound You Only Hear on a Dahabiya There is a particular sound you only hear on a dahabiya. It is not an engine. It is water moving along a wooden hull, a sail shifting overhead, and someone on the bank calling to a child three fields away. Most travellers come to...Read More

There’s a Version of Egypt Most Visitors Never See Most people arrive in Egypt with a list. Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, maybe Philae if the schedule allows. Then they spend a week ticking boxes at somebody else’s pace, sharing every temple courtyard with four hundred strangers who arrived on the same floating hotel....Read More

The Nile Does Not Need to Be Rushed Most people arrive in Egypt with a list. Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, maybe Philae if the schedule allows. Then they spend a week ticking boxes at somebody else’s pace, sharing every temple courtyard with four hundred strangers who arrived on the same floating hotel. There...Read More

There is a moment on the Nile that nobody puts in the brochures, It usually happens around the third evening, somewhere between two temples, when the engine is off, the sails are doing the work, and the loudest sound is a kingfisher arguing with the wind. You look up from your book and realise you...Read More

LUXURY PRIVATE NILE SAILING Sail the Nile on a Private Dahabiya, Not a Floating Hotel There’s a moment on the second morning that catches most people off guard. You wake up, step onto the deck with a coffee, and realise the loudest thing you can hear is the sail. No engine. No announcement over a...Read More

The Best Nile River Cruise Lines: What Actually Separates One From Another Search for the best Nile river cruise lines and you will be handed a hundred boats, all photographed at golden hour, all describing themselves as five star. It is the least useful moment in trip planning: enormous choice, almost no basis for comparison....Read More

Top Nile Cruises: A Straight Answer From an Operator Who Sails One Boat Search for the top Nile cruises and you will be handed roughly forty lists, none of which agree with each other, most of which were written by someone who has never had sand in their shoes at Kom Ombo. Ranking a river...Read More

The Best Egypt River Cruise Is the One Built Around You — Here’s How to Find It Search for the best Egypt river cruise and you will be handed a hundred confident answers, most of them written by someone who has never untied a rope on the Nile. Five stars here. Award-winning there. Everybody’s boat,...Read More

Egypt Nile Cruise Packages: Six Journeys, One Private Dahabiya, No Small Print Compare a few Egypt Nile cruise packages and you will notice something odd. Every one of them is “all-inclusive”. Every one is “luxury”. Very few of them tell you how many people you will be sharing the deck with, or whether the temple...Read More

Best Nile Cruise Ships: How to Pick the Boat Before You Pick the Trip Here is something almost nobody tells you while you are planning Egypt: the temples are fixed, but your experience of them is not. Karnak is the same Karnak whether you arrive with 12 people or 300. What changes — completely —...Read More