Our pilot, captain Mahmoud, gently turns us around so we get an unbeatable God’s eye view reaching from the lush green ...

A Journey Through Ancient History Sailing the Nile is like taking a step back in time. This legendary river, the lifeline of ...

The best Nile River cruise, and the best way to see Egypt’s ancient treasures, is on an Oberoi Nile Cruiser, and they have ...

Cruising down Africa’s longest river is one of the most popular tourist activities in Egypt. Here’s how to make the most of it.

Africa is a beautiful continent, surrounded with deserts jungles, forest and rivers which is at the heart of this lively ...

It almost never rains in Egypt, where approximately 95% of the land is desert. For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River. If you know that ...

Here, the extreme dry sands of the desert meet the fertile silt-laden soils along the Nile—a river that provides a source of life for the entire nation and a good part of the African continent.

Without the River Nile, Egypt would be a desert because very little rain falls there. Luckily, lots of rain does fall upstream, near the sources of the river. Every year, a very heavy rainfall in ...

Egypt, with vast swaths of desert in its east and west and the rich Nile River Valley at its heart, is site to one of the world’s earliest and greatest civilizations. Its location at the ...

a snaking river that has passed through the swamps of South Sudan, where much of it evaporates. Blue and White together form the Upper Nile, the mighty, desert-cleaving waterway that gave birth to ...