Why a trip down the Nile is the best way to see Egypt
by Tim Johnson · Australian Financial ReviewTim Johnson
Oct 15, 2026 – 5.00am
Every nautical mile along this linear oasis has been nothing short of a revelation. Over the course of 100 cruises (or thereabouts), I’ve never seen anything like it. A waterway lined with ancient treasures that still serves as the lifeblood of a nation. Lush shores lined with palms, busy villages backed on both sides by rust-coloured mountains.
The Nile is, quite literally, a destination of Biblical proportions, where pharaohs made their homes, based their kingdoms and kept their tombs for thousands of years. It’s the river that, according to the Old Testament, carried a baby Moses in a basket, and later turned blood-red, the first of the infamous plagues brought down before the Great Exodus.
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