Written by Liam Hetherington on January 21, 2008
- It had been arranged for us to travel upstream to Sehel Island on the Tuesday night. Sehel is home to a thriving Nubian community. Recognising that their culture is very different to that of...
Written by Adelaide on November 21, 2000
- The cities of Edfu and Kom Ombo are not very far from Aswan (100 and 40 km, respectively). Both have interesting temples from the Greek period, begun at the second century BC.
Our tour...
Written by Roger Bruton on August 12, 2004
- The M/S Eugenie, from Aswan to Abu Simbel, is operated by "Belle Epoque" of Cairo. Our excellent guide/tour manager was Khaled. Eugenie is billed as a five-star boat – personally, I would award it six...
Written by myrdal on October 6, 2006
- The first time I went to Egypt I fulfilled my dreams. Since my childhood I always had dreamt of visiting Egypt, probably because as Mediterranean citizen I know that a great part of our culture...
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