Fantastic!

I love cruising; lazing on the sundeck or in the pool while the boat sails through wonderful scenery to the next fascinating port of call. 

     

It's great to see a constantly changing panorama and a number of different famed places and not having to pack and unpack each time makes for a lovely holiday with just the right combo of idleness and virtuous trailing around antiquity.

I've seen temples with massive pillar'd halls until they're coming out of my ears - 156 pillars in the main court alone at Karnak and all unbelieveably high

   

 

 carved reliefs and tomb paintings;

 

   

 

 humungous statues;

 

   

 

and deep deep tombs including Tut Ankh Amun's (note the cognoscenti'd spelling <g>),

and flora and birds enough for anyone -I even saw the fabled ibis and golden hoopoe.

 

The Valley of the Kings was awe inspiring, especially at dawn.  Goodness knows tho how those poor workmen must have suffered in the intense heat reflected off the rock:

   

 

I've travelled by river liner, felucca, horse and camel - and my backside feels the last two as I sit here almost a week later.  The ordinary Eyptian people we met along our way were invariably friendly and helpful.

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A Nile cruise really is a super holiday, so if you have the chance then go, just don't go in the summer when the temperatures at 40+ are insupportable for desert traipsing and I suspect the Valley of the Kings might need another tomb!