to experience the nile as clean and undisturbed by garish tourist cruise boats and high rise hotels, to see the traditions of nubian people who depend on this river in every aspect of the lives and to understand why the nile was so ...
AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model-turned-singer girlfriend Carla Bruni ride a faluka, a traditional Egyptian sail boat, on the River Nile in Luxor Dec. 26. ...
I imagine the hotels are empty because the Red Sea riviera is mostly a crummy shithole, but construction continues unabated. On our way north from Hurgada to Suez, we passed perhaps a hundred resorts, some completed and empty, ...