The best way to experience the Nile River is to travel along it slowly on board a felucca. A felucca is a traditional wooden sailing boat and most Egypt tours feature a felucca trip where you spend one or two nights on board. We spent a very relaxing day sailing along the Nile from Aswan which was ...
Can you Swim in the Nile River?
Can you (or should you) swim in the Nile River? Long answer short - No, definitely not. I pride myself in (usually) being a fairly smart, well-researched traveller however on my last overseas trip to Egypt, I did decide to swim in the Nile River and contracted a parasite called Schistosomiasis (or ...