| Treasure
of the Nile Cities |
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| Nile
cruises offer the perfect venue for visiting antiquity
sites along the Nile valley. Cruising the Nile offers
travelers the most efficient way to visit the antiquity
sites of Luxor, Aswan and points between, like Kom Ombo
and Edfu |
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| Cairo,
the Triumphant City, known officially as al-Qahirah is
one of the world's largest urban areas and offers many
sites to see. It is the administrative capital of Egypt
and, close by, is almost every Egypt Pyramid, such as
the Great Pyramids of Giza on the very edge of the city.
But there are also ancient temples, tombs, Christian churches,
magnificent Muslim monuments, and of course, the Egyptian
Antiquities Museum all either within or nearby the city.
Cairo is an amazing city full of life and movement providing
great culture, including art galleries and music halls,
such as the Cairo Opera House. Cairo offers an incredible
selection of shopping, leisure and nightlife activities.
Shopping ranges from the famous Khan el-Khalili souk,
(or bazaar) largely unchanged since the 14th century,
to modern air-conditioned centers displaying the latest
fashions. Particularly good buys are spices, perfumes,
gold, silver, carpets, brass and copperware, leatherwork,
glass, ceramics and mashrabiya. This has been for over
a thousand years, truly a shopper's paradise. |
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| Aswan
Egypt's sunniest southern city and ancient frontier town
located about 81 miles south of Luxor, has a distinctively
African atmosphere. Small enough to walk around and graced
with the most beautiful setting on the Nile, the pace
of life is slow and relaxing. |
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| In Aswan the Nile
is at its most beautiful, flowing through amber desert
and granite rocks, round emerald islands covered in palm
groves and tropical plants. Explore the souk, full of
the scent and color of spices, perfumes, scarves and baskets.
Aswan has been a favorite winter resort since the beginning
of the nineteenth century, and it's still a perfect place
to get away from it all. |
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| The city proper
lies on the east bank of the Nile. Relax here, visit a
few mosques, but then prepare for an adventure. Just east
of the cemetery in the famous area quarries is the gigantic
Unfinished Obelisk. Just to the south of this, two Graeco-Roman
sarcophagi and an unfinished colossus remain half buried
in the sand. |
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| Luxor
has often been called the worlds greatest open air museum,
as indeed it is and much more. The number and preservation
of the monuments in the Luxor area are unparalleled anywhere
else in the world that know of. Actually, what most people
think of as Luxor is really three different areas, consisting
of the City of Luxor on the East side of the Nile, the
town of Karnak just north of Luxor and Thebes, which the
ancient Egyptians called Waset, which is on the west side
of the Nile across from Luxor. |
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| Best season October
- May |
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