About Nile Valley

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 All Nile Cruises have sun deck with swimming pool; however, vary in size, complimentary pool towels, sun beds to relax, and a shaded bar where you can have a seat and order a drink. While sailing between Luxor and Aswan, the cruise offers a 5 PM tea time when you can really enjoy socializing with other groups of tourists on board the cruise. There is also a fully licensed bar with disco type dance floor, laundry and bazaar.

The boat fare includes the three meals, but the drinks are not included.  You will sign for your drinks and upon check out you will pay for any extras.

  Temple of Edfu is situated exactly between Luxor and Aswan. The Edfu Temple is considered the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. This partly because it was built in the Ptolemaic era from 237 to 57 BC. Edfu is also the second largest temple in Egypt after Karnak Temple.
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt. After his death in 323, his successors ruled Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty. This was the last dynasty of independent Egypt. The Ptolemies were Greeks but presented themselves to the Egyptians as native pharaohs and closely imitated the traditions and architecture of pharaonic Egypt.
The Temple of Horus at Edfu was built during the Ptolemiac era on top of an earlier temple to Horus, which was oriented east-west instead of the current north-south configuration.
The falcon-headed Horus was originally the sky god, whose eyes were the sun and moon. Later, he was associated with the myth of Isis and Osiris as the divine couple's child. Raised by Isis and Hathor after Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth. Horus killed his father in revenge in a great battle at Edfu. Seth was exiled and Horus took the throne, Osiris reigning through him from the underworld. All pharoahs claimed to be the incarnation of Horus, the "living king."
 

The Temple of Edfu was abandoned after the Roman Empire became Christian and paganism was outlawed in 391 AD. It lay buried up to its lintels in sand, with homes built over the top, until it was excavated by Auguste Mariette in the 1860s. The sand protected the monument over the years, leaving it very well preserved today.

 The Nile is at its most beautiful in Aswan, where it flows through the golden desert with the green islands with its palm groves and tropical plants next to it. Here you can explore markets with its spice scents, and one can enjoy magnificent sunsets with a cup of tea on the terrace by the venerable Old Cataract Hotel. Aswan, with its unique African atmosphere, has been a favorite retreat in the winter months since the beginning of the 19th century, and it still is. At night you can hear native music and watch dance performances in the cultural center close to the seafront. There, you can see the Nubians use proverbial sticks in their dances.   

  It is one of the largest projects built with Russian assistance between 1960 and 1971, to provide electricity and water to the growing Egyptian population. Today the dam supplying Egypt with more power than they can use, and Egypt has therefore become an electricity exporter. The dam is 111 feet high, about 2.5 miles long and nearly a mile wide at the base. Behind the dam is the world’s largest artificial lake – Lake Nasser – extending 345 miles southward, only surrounded by desert.