Felucca Sailing the Nile, Aswan, Egypt is an unforgettable trip across a majestic river filled with historical meaning. There are many sites to see and visit within Eygpt. This trip takes you away from an urban city and allows you to experience Eygpt, on a relaxing Felucca trip along the Nile.
There is no other river that could conjure up such intriguing pictures from ancient history, folklore and incredible human advancement as the Nile. And there is no better way to learn about it than boarding a felucca, one of Egypt’s conventional cruising ships.
What is a Felucca?
A Felucca boat is a traditional wooden sailboat, relying on wind and the river currents to move. Feluccas were once the best option for people to transport products through the Nile. Now, they are the best option an adventure through waters loaded with history in all its splendor.
Of course, there are of course motorboats and ferries available for navigating the Nile. However, feluccas are still active and very much recommended for those who want a relaxing trip with beautiful views, while feeling the light warm afternoon breeze caress their skin.
Activity/Place Highlights
Not luxurious, but absolutely stunning
If you want to get a genuine experience from this trip, you will have to pass on any luxuries. And the life on board the felucca is not the fanciest option out there. Above all, you will find only simple kitchens and washrooms. However, the beautiful and unique moments that you will live here offer you a balanced adventure.
With the delicate, barely perceptible flow of the Nile beneath you and the rising and setting sun around you, you won’t really need any luxury. There is no five-star hotel that compares to a sky full of stars above you and a calm stream leading this adventure.
Felucca Nights
When the night comes on the felucca, you’ve already filled your senses with the beautiful and colorful sunset. Then your felucca stops at a certain spot on the waterway bank. Now all you have to do is sit and wait for the chef working on his small stove to finish.
After the meal, you get a chance to stretch your legs on shore and spend some time with people around the pit fire, singing tunes and telling stories. The nightfall sky gradually transforms into a show of astonishing stars. After stargazing for hours, you understand why people were so obsessed with the stars hundreds of years ago.
Later on and with the water gently washing against the edges of the felucca, it is time to huddle into your favorite covers and rest from so much beauty. Even though the amazing landscape will probably stay with you in your dreams.
After days of contemplating landscapes that few people can admire, learning things that few people know and living an adventure that many people would love to live, felucca sailing the Nile will have been crossed off the list of things to do before you die.
How to get there
Many airlines fly daily to Cairo. Egypt Air flies to Cairo, Luxor and Aswan.
Inside Information
Experience Egypt offers an escellent service and they organize your felucca journey. They can kindly arrange extensions to stay in Luxor, and to visit the pyramids in Cairo.
Other Nearby Attractions
The Nile is historically related with the nation’s existence and eventual growth. The river overflows yearly and gives all the nurturing sediments that enable harvest to grow along a small riverside strip in the generally unwelcoming desert.
The Nile was worshipped to the point where almost every ancient Egypt’s sanctuary was constructed along its banks. From those at Abu Simbel, south of Aswan, to the immense sanctuaries around Luxor, and the pyramids at Cairo.
Luxor
There are many options for you if you want to take a tour or excursion in these majestic lands. Take one of the tours offered in Luxor, where you can admire and study all the beauty and history. Maybe the most intriguing excursion offered is the one from the southernmost city in Egypt, Aswan, to the north in Kom Ombo. If you take this excursion you can witness its majestic landscapes away from the overwhelming Luxor. Enjoy this calm city, experience life along the Nile and learn about the centuries of history that these waters hold.
Edfu
If the wind is strong enough, you might have the opportunity to go all the way to Edfu, where you will find the great Temple of Horus. This temple dates back from the third century BC, being one of the most exceptional and cared for sanctuaries in Egypt.
Kom Ombo
Nonetheless, most three-day ventures end at Kom Ombo, where there is another sanctuary to Horus, and to Sobek, the crocodile god. Regardless of where your adventure ends, every place will teach you about the inspiring culture the Nile created.
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