A first time traveler to Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruises who wants a deluxe Nile Cruise Tours and enjoy the best Pharaonic antiquities experience would do well to book a Nile cruise. Of course modern airlines shuttle tourists to the southern region of Egypt, but historically the Nile cruise was really the only way to visit the temples and tombs located along this stretch of the river Nile. It is still a popular means of visiting Upper Egypt and has many advantages to other means of Egypt travel.
First of all, it is very nice to unpack once and have your hotel travel with you, rather than the hectic routine that accompanies the stop and go itineraries of air and land tours. But besides the more relaxed mode of travel, there are other significant advantages. Luxor and Aswan Nile cruises often visit a wider variety of antiquities along the banks of the River Nile. But equally important, they also allow the tourist to gain a prospective of rural Egypt, where people live much the same way they did even thousands of years ago, in mud brick homes, tending their fields with wooden plows and moving produce via donkey. It is a wonderful experience to sit on a shaded deck of a Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise , sipping an iced beverage while watching 5,000 years of culture slowly drift by Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise Tours
Egypt Nile cruises may vary considerably, but typical Egypt Nile cruises are either three nights, four nights or seven nights. The shorter tours usually operate between Luxor and Aswan, while the longer cruises travel further north to Dendera, often offering day tours overland to more remote locations. Therefore, a fairly complete 14 day tour of Egypt might include several days around Cairo, seeing the pyramids, museums and other antiquities, a short flight to Abu Simbel in the very southern part of Egypt, completed by a seven day Nile Cruise.
The usual cruise is aboard a Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise, often referred to as a floating hotel. Indeed, the better boats have most of the accommodations of a land based hotel, including:
1- Small swimming pools
2- Hot tubs
3- Exercise rooms
4- Discos
5- Good quality restaurants
6- Stores and even small libraries
Depending on what one is willing to pay, rooms may be very utilitarian and small, or larger than some land based hotel rooms. Some boats even have suites available.Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruises will always have private baths, air conditioning, and TVs, and it is common for there to be movies each night. Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruises also offer various entertainments. Many of the Nile Cruises in Egypt have dance areas with a disco or even live entertainment, and most offer a variety of nightly shows. These might include cocktail parties, Nubian shows, belly dancers and whirling dervish, plays and even “costume” parties where guests don traditional apparel. Like land hotels, meals on board most Nile cruisers are usually buffet style and include hot and cold food along with a variety of international and local cuisine. Most boats have good modern water filtration, which is fine for showering, but it is still recommended to drink bottled water, which the boat will have aboard.
A much more adventurous style of Nile cruise, very different from the floating hotels can be arranged aboard feluccas, Egypt’s traditional Nile sailboat. Most felucca trips are short, enjoyable trips of several hours, but multi-day felucca cruises can be arranged aboard larger vessels traveling between Aswan and Luxor. There is really no comparison between Cruising the Nile on a Luxor Nile Cruise and a felucca. The accommodation on a felucca is primitive. Tourist sleep in the open on deck and the sailors double as cooks.
Mahmoud Heakal
info@alltoursegypt.com
www.alltoursegypt.com
First of all, it is very nice to unpack once and have your hotel travel with you, rather than the hectic routine that accompanies the stop and go itineraries of air and land tours. But besides the more relaxed mode of travel, there are other significant advantages. Luxor and Aswan Nile cruises often visit a wider variety of antiquities along the banks of the River Nile. But equally important, they also allow the tourist to gain a prospective of rural Egypt, where people live much the same way they did even thousands of years ago, in mud brick homes, tending their fields with wooden plows and moving produce via donkey. It is a wonderful experience to sit on a shaded deck of a Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise , sipping an iced beverage while watching 5,000 years of culture slowly drift by Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise Tours
Egypt Nile cruises may vary considerably, but typical Egypt Nile cruises are either three nights, four nights or seven nights. The shorter tours usually operate between Luxor and Aswan, while the longer cruises travel further north to Dendera, often offering day tours overland to more remote locations. Therefore, a fairly complete 14 day tour of Egypt might include several days around Cairo, seeing the pyramids, museums and other antiquities, a short flight to Abu Simbel in the very southern part of Egypt, completed by a seven day Nile Cruise.
The usual cruise is aboard a Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruise, often referred to as a floating hotel. Indeed, the better boats have most of the accommodations of a land based hotel, including:
1- Small swimming pools
2- Hot tubs
3- Exercise rooms
4- Discos
5- Good quality restaurants
6- Stores and even small libraries
Depending on what one is willing to pay, rooms may be very utilitarian and small, or larger than some land based hotel rooms. Some boats even have suites available.Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruises will always have private baths, air conditioning, and TVs, and it is common for there to be movies each night. Luxor and Aswan Nile Cruises also offer various entertainments. Many of the Nile Cruises in Egypt have dance areas with a disco or even live entertainment, and most offer a variety of nightly shows. These might include cocktail parties, Nubian shows, belly dancers and whirling dervish, plays and even “costume” parties where guests don traditional apparel. Like land hotels, meals on board most Nile cruisers are usually buffet style and include hot and cold food along with a variety of international and local cuisine. Most boats have good modern water filtration, which is fine for showering, but it is still recommended to drink bottled water, which the boat will have aboard.
A much more adventurous style of Nile cruise, very different from the floating hotels can be arranged aboard feluccas, Egypt’s traditional Nile sailboat. Most felucca trips are short, enjoyable trips of several hours, but multi-day felucca cruises can be arranged aboard larger vessels traveling between Aswan and Luxor. There is really no comparison between Cruising the Nile on a Luxor Nile Cruise and a felucca. The accommodation on a felucca is primitive. Tourist sleep in the open on deck and the sailors double as cooks.
Mahmoud Heakal
info@alltoursegypt.com
www.alltoursegypt.com
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