Egypt, Cairo and a Nile Cruise: One Trip, Not Three Separate Holidays You have probably already noticed the awkward part of planning Egypt. The capital is up north. The temples you have been reading about for months are hundreds of kilometres south. And the standard advice is to fly between them, twice, with a different...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
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
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
7 Nights Aboard a Private Dahabiya · Aswan to Luxor Cruise to Egypt 2027: Sail the Nile on a Private Dahabiya — and Watch the Sky Go Dark Over Luxor On Monday, August 2, 2027, the Moon’s shadow passes directly across southern Egypt, and the sky over Luxor goes dark for 6 minutes and 23...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
7 Nights Aboard a Private Dahabiya · Aswan to Luxor Luxor Eclipse 2027 Tour: 8 Days on a Private Dahabiya, Built Around One Afternoon There are trips you can move by a week. This isn’t one of them. On 2 August 2027, the Moon’s shadow crosses southern Egypt for 6 minutes and 23 seconds of...Read More
Luxor Eclipse 2027: Watch the Longest Totality of the Century From a Private Dahabiya There are trips you plan around a place. This one you plan around a clock. At approximately 1:10 PM on Monday, 2 August 2027, the Moon’s shadow will settle over Luxor and the sun will simply stop being there. Not dimmed....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
Egypt Solar Eclipse 2027 Tour Packages: Sail the Nile Into the Longest Totality of the Century There is a specific kind of silence that falls when the sun disappears in the middle of the day. Birds stop. The temperature drops. And for a few impossible minutes, the sky above the Nile turns the colour of...Read More
