For the 10 best Nile river cruises to book ... in a felucca (a traditional wooden vessel with sails), go to Explore. It could all come down to budget. Bigger vessels – traditionally called ...

While all rivers are important for people and wildlife who live nearby, the Nile looms especially ... which can be tricky in big, complex river systems. Scientists tend to go by the longest ...

Others yet go to the Nile River in search of a historically accurate travel experience. In order to accommodate all these ...

This was my final excursion before flying home after a week-long trip down the River Nile, a trip that felt decades ... blue skies and enjoying the all-inclusive drinks. But if you want to see ...

For the next seven months, members will map and measure the river’s entire course until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. Then, if all goes smoothly, a journey down the Nile — which might ...

The Amazon is recognised as the world's largest river by volume, but has generally been regarded as second in length to the River Nile. The precise length of ... some years and the claim from Brazil ...

For many locals and foreign tourists, the brightly painted wooden houseboats dotted along the River Nile are an iconic part ... bit out of the ordinary," she goes on. "They feel romantic to ...

God makes no mistakes. If the Egyptians needed more water than any other countries through which the Nile flows, why didn't he make another river to from the Med. sea to Egypt? This means that all ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Dozens of vibrantly coloured floating homes have for decades dotted the banks of the River Nile, rare havens of ... and many have nowhere else to go. For Ms Manar, a 35-year-old ...

management and development of the River Nile's water resources. In effect, the new treaty, if it goes into force this October, will replace the colonial agreements of 1902, 1929 and 1959.

They managed to trace the river all the way back to a snow-capped mountain in southern Peru and claimed that the Amazon measured 6,800km in length, making it longer than the Nile. "Today ...