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Dahabeah on the Nile, 1891. Until the 1870s the dahabiya was the standard for tourists to travel up and down the river Nile. According to Donald Reid, in 1858 "a forty-day round trip from Cairo to Luxor cost about £110; a fifty-day trip to Aswan and back, about £150". [2]
Cruise the Nile in a luxury dahabiya from Nour El Nil, or sail around Scotland's Outer Hebrides in the Hebridean Princess. Sail Through History—On the Nile Like the Pharaohs Did, in Scotland ...
Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. A felucca [a] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia.However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.
Boats on the Qustul Incense burner, fragments and reconstitution (3200-3000 BCE) The Nile River is a major resource for the people living along it, especially thousands of years ago. The El Salha Archaeological Project discovered an abundance of evidence of an ancient boat that traveled the Nile River dating back to 3,000 years ago.
PS Sudan is a passenger-carrying side-wheel paddle steamer on the River Nile in Egypt. [1] Along with PS Arabia, she was one of the largest river steamers in Thomas Cook's Nile fleet. [4] The steamer was built in 1885 for the Egyptian royal family. It was transformed into a cruise liner in 1921. [5]
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The Abydos boats were found in boat graves with their prows pointed towards the Nile. [9] Experts consider them to have been the royal boats intended for the pharaoh in the afterlife. [10] Umm el-Qa'ab is a royal necropolis that is about one mile from the Abydos boat graves where early pharaohs were entombed.
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