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The secret of the island jules verne6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Enjoy an oriental Takht music performance on board. Discover the Egyptian Museum (or the Grand Egyptian Museum subject to opening), home to the Amarna Room and the treasures of Tutankhamun. ![]() (D)ĭay 2 Full-day visit to the Pyramids and Sphinx. Transfer to the 5-star Mövenpick MS Darakum for a 14-night cruise. For the returning visitor it will ‘fill in’ the gap between the Pyramids and ancient Thebes, then reveal ‘secret’ sites from Luxor to Aswan.Ĭolourful scenes embellish the desert tombs at Tuna el-Gebel, the cliffs at Beni Hassan, the temples at Abydos, necropolis of the pharaohs and Greco-Roman Denderah.ĭay 1 Fly from London Heathrow to Cairo. ![]() Whilst Cairo and Luxor are influenced by tourism, these cruises offer a rare opportunity to observe an old way of life and ancient sites largely unvisited, with the benefit of longer actual cruising than on the classic Nile cruise between Luxor and Aswan. The ancient capital moved between Upper (Thebes) and Lower Egypt (Memphis), sometimes split and sometimes united, except when the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti moved the capital to Amarna between the two kingdoms. This cruise follows in the footsteps of Napoleon’s savants, Champollion who uncovered the secrets of the hieroglyphs and the 19th-century British travellers – all travelled south on the Nile to Thebes, enjoying some days of sailing after hectic Cairo – in between visits to the ancient sites. ![]()
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