Our journey along the Nile starts in earnest today. As our ship is small it reminds us of the early days of Nile cruising when a steamer like ours would take 3 weeks to reach Aswan from Cairo. A sailing boat of that era would take 6 to 12 weeks because it is against the …
Aswan is at the northern end of the first cataract (waterfall) that marked what most historians understand to be Egypt’s southern frontier. However, in very ancient times, there were people living and trading around this town and it is from the remains of their domestic artefacts that we can understand how these peoples provided the …
Having departed London Heathrow at 3:00 p.m. it was after midnight when we arrived in Aswan and transferred to the Steamship Misr which is our base for the 600 mile journey down the Nile to Cairo. We noted that our very first arrival in Aswan was by overnight sleeper train from Cairo, the journey taking …
Today we travelled by train from Manchester to London and stayed overnight in readiness for the flights to Cairo and Aswan tomorrow.