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Travelogue: Five days on River Nile, world s longest river pmnewsnigeria.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pmnewsnigeria.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Apr 29, 2021
Cruising the Nile is one of Egypt s iconic experiences. Without the Nile, Egypt s grand Pharaonic civilization would never have survived and thrived across the centuries, dominating so much of what we know about the eastern Mediterranean s ancient world.
Today the Nile still controls modern Egypt, with around 95 percent of the population living along its banks and in the river s delta region before it spills into the Mediterranean.
A cruise along this river is a journey into Egypt s epic human history; the river banks scattered with Egypt s most famous vast temples and painted tomb sites.
It s also a taste of Egypt at its most lush and tranquil, and an up-close experience of the country s rural riverine scenery.