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

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.

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 ...

There's no conclusive evidence, but a river reputed by some to be the oldest in the world dates back 340 million years.

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

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

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’s Nile River is populated with ancient wonders and a host of cruise lines vying for your tourism dollars, but Oberoi is one of the only operators that secures private docking privileges in ...