Open any Nile cruise itinerary and you meet the same big names: Luxor, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Aswan. But between Edfu and Kom Ombo the river keeps quieter places, and only...
Not long ago I lost a booking in seconds. By mistake we sent a traveller a personal bank account instead of the company account. To him it looked exactly like...
Every week guests ask me the same question: should we take a cruise ship or a dahabiya? I guide on both, between Luxor and Aswan, and the honest answer is...
Every famous site in Egypt has an opening time, and a crowd that arrives with it. A private opening is the way around both. With official permission, arranged in advance,...
Jaz sails more ships on the Nile than anyone else, under the JAZ, JAZ Elite and Steigenberger names. We sell three of the Jaz ships between Luxor and Aswan: the...
Steigenberger has five ships on the Nile, and we sell three of them between Luxor and Aswan: the Regency, the Royale and the Minerva. All three cost the same through...
Twice a year, on 22 February and 22 October, the rising sun lights the statues deep inside the Great Temple at Abu Simbel. The dates, what you see, and how...
On Monday 2 August 2027 a total solar eclipse crosses Egypt, and a Nile cruise moored in Luxor is one of the best places on Earth to watch it. Totality...
Abu Simbel is the one great site on a Nile cruise that the ship itself never reaches. The two temples stand 280 kilometres south of Aswan, on the shore of...
