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Cruise down the Nile on this elegant cruise ship while you are entertained for an unforgettable, relaxing dinner. The cruise starts at 7:30 and lasts about two hours - you will enjoy eating your dinner while sailing up and down the Nile taking in the amazing lights of Cairo. The house band accompanies the belly dancer and the Tanoura (whirling dervish) show. The food is varied, served buffet style, and service is excellent. It costs about $65 USD with extra for drinks.
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A trip to Cairo would be rather unfulfilled without a felluca ride in the Nile. Nile is like a vein that gives Egypt its blood, and its life. The Nile is best experienced on a felluca, get one at a place called DokDok, which charge 25 EGP for half hour. It is very relaxing after a long day, and refreshes you. The views are different compared to Luxor, with skyscrapers and the Cairo Tower in view.
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Admire the nile, walk around its river side specially at giza and doqqi sides and enjoy the scene of people and lovers walking around, and take a boat to cross from the university to Maspero and the Gezira Island. Leave a Comment
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Built in 1959, the powder blue Nile Hilton building quickly became the symbol of modernism and luxury in the years following its construction. Unfortunately, time has been unkind and the hotel has become anything but, and is in desperate need of restoration. However, the distinctive Miami-style art deco edifice, which occupies the strategic position overlooking the Nile on one side and Midan Tahrir on the other, is an important landmark. Address: 1113 Corniche El Nil
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Cruise down the Nile and visit the most amazing historical sites of human history.
Hatshepsut Temple: Chapel of Hathor (in Thebes) has a very classical design, something done in Greece or Rome, but was built during the 18th dynasty of 1550 - 1295 BC.
Valley of the Kings (in Thebes), just on the other side of the cliffs of the Hatshepsut Temple. So far, 62 tombs have been found. Some of the most important tombs are Tutankhamun, Seti I and Ramses I, III & IV. They were begun in 1500 BC by Tuthmosis I and were created to keep grave robbers from stealing its contents for the pharoahs afterlife.
Luxor Temple (in Luxor), which looks beautiful lit up at night along the Nile, is dedicated to Amun, Mut and Khonsu (as is Karnak) and was increased by Ramses II (who was a prolific builder). This temple was under sand for years and actually had the Abu al-Haggag Mosque built (in the 13th century) on top of it and the entrance door to the mosque is over 30 feet above the temple floor.
Karnak: Temple of Amun (in Luxor) was built over a 1,300 year period beginning around 2000 BC and was expanded by the great pharoah of Ramses II. From this point the Festival of Opet at Karnak celebrated the king's rebirth as the son of Amun and went down the Nile to the Luxor Temple. There was a road from both temples lined with sphinxes on both sides of the road, it is known as the Avenue of the Sphinxes.
Abu Simbel (on the shores of lake Nasser) was built out of a solid cliff in the 13th century BC but was moved in the 1960's to spare it from being inundated from Lake Nasser, which was created by the High Dam. One of the Colossi, depicting Ramses II, is 108 feet high. The Hypostyle Hall includes statues with the crown of the Upper Egypt as well as the Lower Egypt. As with other temples, this one was covered in sand for centuries. In 27 BC a massive earthquake caused the broken colossus' head to fall to the ground.
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Cruising the Nile, my cabin was at the lowest level and since I was traveling alone, I had it all to myself. The portholes of my cabin were exactly at water level. Imagine how bizarre that is, looking out the window and seeing underwater every now and then.
The country is permeated with the fragrance of baking bread, a subtle blend of old world middle eastern spices. You get to sit on top of the deck, on the roof of the boat, drenched in sunlight, while a panorama of human history dating back ten millenia rolls slowly past you. Nothing can prepare you for this. No photos, no books, no reviews given by rapt reviewers such as myself. The images of the date palm orchards, the green fields, the sun-baked mountain range beyond, the biblical clay/adobe dwelling huts that people live in, the caravan of boats stretching ahead and behind as much as a mile (but with plenty of room between boats) all add up to one of the most positive experiences in travel you will ever have.
There were two downsides to my trip. I was on a boat with predominantly non-English speaking people and it made for a rather isolated feeling, watching everyone else enjoying and sharing their time together while I was pretty much excluded, due to my abysmal language skills, (or lack there-of). The second point was the sense of guilt that I felt. My position was necessarily that of a white sahib, some well-fed rich arsehole, smoking fat cigars and putting them out in the faces of the less fortunate, even though for me to even DREAM of doing that would be unthinkable. Address: Cairo to Aswan
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Delecious meal near ther Pyramids Directions: Cairo , Pyramids
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