Quiet conversation and the whip of the felucca's single sail lull me into a peaceful state as we drift along the Nile near Aswan. We float past a temple dedicated to Ptah, god of the delta and ...

So, in September last year, “rather than wasting our money on renting an apartment in Cairo and daily urban expenses,” they both took a train down to Aswan to obtain a felucca. “Tourism had been ...

After I visited the pyramids in Giza, I took an overnight train to Aswan, a small town in Upper ... he took me on a felucca, a small wooden boat, across the Nile River to Elephantine Island ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and Italy have discovered at least 34 mummies in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan. The remains date back to the late Pharaonic and Greco-Roman period, between the 6th ...

ASWAN, Egypt, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The 9th Aswan International Women Film Festival (AIWFF) reinforced its focus on gender equality and women's empowerment during its latest edition, screening 72 ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Pyramid-gazing in Giza, floating down the Nile, hot air balloon rides in Luxor, wandering over the ...

The felucca’s sail is again central ... With a vast repertoire of photographs captured in places like Lake Borolos, Fayoum, Aswan and the fishing village of El-Max in Alexandria, El-Missary ...

Storms and flooding in the southern Egyptian province of Aswan killed three people and led to 503 others being stung by scorpions, officials said. State media initially attributed the deaths to ...