A luxury holiday to Egypt is as inspiring today as it was during the days of Egyptomania in the 19th century when Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign documented the country’s historic monuments for the first time, and in the 1920s when Howard Carter thrilled people with his discovery of the tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.
The mighty River Nile is the country’s life blood, stretching from the delta at Alexandria up to the upper Nile Valley, via bustling Cairo where the Great Pyramids of Giza tower over the desert and city, ancient Thebes (moden-day Luxor), past the remarkable temples of Kom Ombo, Karnak and Edfu, and sedate Aswan where Agatha Christie was inspired to pen Death On The Nile at the Sofitel Legend Old Cataract.
2022 is a fascinating time to take a luxury holiday to Egypt – the year marks the centenary of Carter’s discovery and the bicentenary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, which enabled the translation of hieroglyphs. Recent discoveries include a remarkable funerary temple at Saqqara, and November saw the unveiling of the restored Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor. Take a luxury Nile cruise aboard a luxury riverboat, such as the Oberoi Zahra and sail back in time to the days of the Pharaohs.
