Aswan is a Nubian city in the south of Egypt, on the first cataract of the Nile. Here Agatha Christie wrote her murder story while she stayed in the Old Cataract Hotel. The O.C. is a stunning anach...

The land of the pyramids is often on traveller’s to-go lists. Famous sights like the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Valley of the Kings, the Nile river and the great temple of Abu Simbel are really just...

Egypt remains predominantly a strange world there pharaohs and gods, sometimes monstrous, sometimes charming, are found in the act of accomplishing strange rites, in the centre of hieroglyphic insc...

At some point most travellers to Egypt will take in some sort of boat trip down the Nile River. What makes a journey along the Nile so interesting is that it effectively is a journey through 5000 y...