Red Sea & Nile Cruise & Stay Holidays (2025)

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Magnificent Luxor sits proudly on the east bank of the Nile, inviting visitors to explore its ancient past that spans back thousands of years. Often described as the world's greatest outdoor museum, you will be mesmerised by its beauty and inspired by its magnificent relics. With one of the biggest sacred buildings on your doorstep - the maze-like temple of Karnak, and the impressive Valley of the Kings across the Nile, Luxor brings history to life in a compelling way."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint2.openInfoWindowHtml("

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Located in Luxor, on the east bank of the River Nile, the Luxor Temple was a sacred venue for many ancient Egyptian rituals. The temple was built by Amenhotep III in the 14th century BC, and expanded a century later by Rameses II. Among the ancient rites performed threr was the Opet Festival, where a statue of Amun (king of the gods) was paraded down the Nile to join his consort Mut, a mother-goddess, in a celebration of fertility. Over centuries of seasonal floods, the temple became covered in river silt, and several buildings were erected over it, including the Abu el-Haggag Mosque."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint3.openInfoWindowHtml("

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Egypt's ancient Karnak Temple has stood for more than 4,000 years, and remains one of the world's most significant, and certainly the most impressive religious structures. Part of the monumental city of Thebes, Karnak is a collection of temples and other religious buildings, around a sacred lake. The temple complex was a city of the gods ruled over by the pharaohs - priest-kings considered as living gods by their worshippers. There are four main precincts, of which only the largest, the Precinct of Amun-Re, is open to the general public."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint4.openInfoWindowHtml("

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The Temple of Kom Ombo, near the vilage of the same name, ia an unusal double temple erected in the Ptolemaic era. Half is dedicated to the crocodile god, Sobek, god of fertility and one of the creators of the world; the other half to the falcon-headed god, Horus. Some 300 crocodile mummies were discovered near the tomb!"; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint5.openInfoWindowHtml("

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Aswan is the southernmost stop on our Nile cruise itineraries. A substantial market and tourist town, its stands on the east bank of the Nile at its first 'cataract', an area where the river shallows and passes through rocky rapids. It is also Egypt's driest city, and on of the driest inhabited places on earth - so keep your water bottle to hand!"; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint6.openInfoWindowHtml("

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Aswan's Philae Island is perhaps most famous for no longer existing! The original island lay in an area of the River Nile that was flooded beneath Lake Nasser following the the creation of the Aswan High Dam in the 1970s. The ancient Temples of Philae stood undisturbed on the island for thousands of years but were painstakingly disassembled, relocated and rebuilt prior to the dam's completion, and you can now visit them on their newly created island home."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint7.openInfoWindowHtml("

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The giant High Dam at Aswan remains one of the world's most significant civil engineering projects, and one of the biggest successes of the New Era that followed Egypt's revolution in the 1950s. The dam took 5 years to plan, 10 years to build, and a further 6 years to fill. Since its completion it has provided Egypt with water, electricity, and protects the fertile river banks against both drought and destructive seasonal flooding. Many precious archaeological sites would have been destroyed by the newly created Lake Nasser, and major projects were undertaken to catalogue, protect, and in some cases, relocate these entirely. The most famous are the relocation of the Temples of Philae, and the mighty Abu Simbel."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint8.openInfoWindowHtml("

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The Unfinished Obelisk is situated in an ancient quarry in Aswan. Had it been finished, it would have been more than 40 metres long, and weighed 1,200 tons, making it the largest stone obelisk erected in ancient Egypt: almost one third longer than the nearest completed obelisk. Unfortunately, while quarrying work was underway a large crack developed which ruined the obelisk and it was abandoned. It's purpose is not known for sure, but archaeologists believe it may have been intended to partner the 'Lateran Obelisk', originally sited in Karnak, but now found at Rome's Lateran Palace."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint9.openInfoWindowHtml("

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The 3400-year-old Colossi of Memnon are two gigantic stone statues on Luxor's west bank. The statues depict Pharaoh Amenhotep III in a seated position, with smaller depictions of his wife carved into the sides. They were built to stand guard at the entrance of Amenhotep's memorial temple."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint10.openInfoWindowHtml("

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The Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank was the resting place for dozens of ancient Egypt's rulers, including the famous boy-king, Tutankhamun. There are almost 100 separate tombs, from plain crypts and bare-walled rooms to vast and ornately decorated chambers covered with hieroglyphs that intricately recount the history of Egypt's ancient kingdoms. Among the pharaohs buried in the Valley of the Kings are Seti I, architect of the temple at Abydos, and several members of the Rameses and Amenhoteps dynasties, and famously, King Tutankhamun, whose tomb was only rediscovered by Howard Carter in the 1920s."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint11.openInfoWindowHtml("

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Queen Hatshepsut ruled Egypt for 22 years around 3,500 years ago, making her one of the longest ruling female pharaohs. Following in the tradition of the pharaohs before her, the queen ensured that here mortuary temple would be a masterpiece. It is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings. The spectacular colonnaded structure is built directly into the cliff face, and has many terraces that were once planted with lush gardens."; narrative = narrative.replace(/"/g, "'"); markerRoutePoint12.openInfoWindowHtml("

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