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Dahabiya and Yachts on the Nile

Deluxe Felucca Nile Cruises and Dahabiya Royal Yachts

Available for Private Charter

 

Sample Deck Plan of  the four  Dahabias
For wedding party in Luxor then for the new couple to leave on this Nile Cruise Please click here

 

Belle Epoque class Dahabiyas . Add cairo and Abu Simbel in an 11 day adventure
Each offers 6 cabins
- air-conditioned Deluxe Dahabbiya
Every Saturday from Luxor or Aswan year round. An 8 day / 7 nights Journey
Photo Gallery - Itinerary and Rates - General Info . Compare with the Red Sea 17-Day version




Cruise the Nile aboard the
" Cleopatra" Felucca Sailing Boat

 

Honeymoon cruise, Nile Cruise, Royal Cleopatra Cruise

 



King Fouad's Legendary Steam-ship the Sudan

The Royal Dahabiyas M/S Sudan 's Photo Gallery
The Kings Personal Royal Yachts on the Nile

 

Sample Deck Plan of  the four  Dahabias

His Majesty King Fouad 's Steamship : The Sudan
Compare with other Royal Dahabiyas
the Dongola Photo Gallery and
the Zarafa ( Giraffe)
built for Sultan Hussein Kamel , King Fouad's Father

 

 

With shallow drafts, sails, and oars, feluccas could navigate not only the great river, but the maze of canals threading through its banks, with or without wind, reaching every part of the kingdom.

Deluxe Yachts : Felucca and Dahabia on the Nile such as Dongola , Zarafa ( Giraffe)
And other Deluxe Feluccas

Sample Deck Plan of  the four  Dahabias
Click for the Dongola Photo Gallery and more images

 

 


Or The Zarafa ( Giraffe) Deluxe Felucca

Sample Deck Plan of  the four  Dahabias

 

Royal feluccas and Dahabbiyas bore a larger-than-life image of the pharaoh, seated on a throne, to be seen and venerated by inhabitants even along the most remote canal. In turn, imbued with the same "ka," or spirit, as the living pharaoh himself, it would keep watch over his subjects and their activities.

 

 

Sail the Nile aboard the Flâneuse du Nil Yacht

 

crusing the Nile, Royal Cleopatra Sailing boat, honeymooin cruise


Flâneuse du Nil Dahabiya Luxury Felucca

 

On board the Flauneuse dy Nil Dahabiya, Honeymoon cruise, cruise on boardthe Royal Cleopatra , sailing boat royal cleopatra


The " Flâneuse du Nil" Dahabiya
The Ultimate Romance on the Nile

 

Egyptair & Domestic flights within Egypt :
Egyptair almost has a monopoly over the domestic flight market in Egypt, a state run airline.
Egyptair flights are subject to : overbooking, last minute changes and / or cancellation.
Your local rep. will always be with you to ensure that you board your flight, in case there is a last minute problem with Egyptair, rest assured that our local rep. will always be there until you board your flight or an alternative one . We are not responsible for any last minute delays and or changes by Egypt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Telegraph
Peter Hughes
Saturday 13 May 2006

'Going with the flow'

...'The riad I found was not in the city but on the Nile. It's a dahabiya, a traditional, two-masted Nile sailing cruiser. Anywhere else it would be called a yacht. King Farouk had several. So if a riad is a small princely palace on land - now given over to holiday making - a dahabiya is a riad on the river...'

...'Mahogany panelled and with two faux-glass oil lamps swinging from the beams - a perfect touch for a sailing ship - the look was of a colonial club. Hercule Poirot could have popped up at any moment. There were button-back leather sofa and chairs, an antique bookcase and Scrabble, and tables where we ate when the weather was too chilly for the deck. The food was outstandingly good...'

...' While the big ships charged by as if permanently late, the El Bey moved at the same courtly pace as the Nile - slow enough to enable us to smell woodsmoke from the villages and watch the kingfishers hover. Under our isosceles sails we were as much a curiosity as the boys laying fishing nets and the women doing laundry, the donkey carts and buffalo. But it was the sight of some 40 huge cruise boats, moored in ranks, cheek by gunwale up to 10 deep, at the pretty little temple of Kom Ombo that made the greatest sense of dahabiya travel. The dahabiyas don't take you to sites different from the norm, but they do take you in irresistibly different style...'

...'The greatest compliment to the El Bey was that, for all the wonders of ancient Egypt, shown to us by our own guide, the part of the week my fellow passengers enjoyed most was the time on the river...'

 

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