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.
