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Egypt Travel Advice – Great News!

Late last week we were advised that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (the FCO) had removed their advice against all but essential travel to Luxor which meant that Nile cruises were able to resume from the 2nd of December.

The Pyramids, Giza. Colin & Barbara November 2012.

Great!

Well yesterday we were notified that the FCO no longer advise against all but essential travel to Cairo Governate and Greater Cairo including Giza 6th October City and the Giza Pyramids (which are part of the Giza Governate).

More great news!

So that means UK travellers can once again visit Cairo to experience visiting one of the last remaining Wonders of The World as well as the many, many other unforgettable experiences that a visit to Cairo includes.

As I’ve mentioned on our Nile Cruises 4u Facebook page we were actually in Egypt visiting Cairo, Luxor and Aswan this time last year and it was one of our most unforgettable visits to that wonderful country. We had the time of our lives in Cairo being guided by our friend Medo and I can really recommend that if you get the chance you should go there.

And now, thanks to the lifting of the FCO restrictions, you can.

 

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Briton to walk the length of the Nile

I saw this short article in the Guardian last week and thought “what a fantastic thing to do”. To walk the length of the River Nile from it’s source through 6 different countries, (maybe 7 if he walks through Burundi).

31 year old Levison Wood will start in Rwanda on December 1st and will walk through Tanzania, Uganda, South Suda, Sudan and finally Egypt, some 4,250 mile in total. Hopefully, if he keeps to his schedule, all done within one year.

Wow! Fancy being able to dedicate a full year to such a wonderful experience. And we wonder sometimes how we can take a week off for a break.

Levison Wood, Nile explorer

On occasions he will have to change which side of the Nile he walks…“depending which side of the river he takes – some of which have been riven by civil unrest and war”.  And even that must be a bit of a challenge.

I watched the Joanna Lumley TV documentary in which she traced the source of the Nile all the way down to Rwanda. That was obviously done in a little more comfort and a lot more quickly but even that mini-expedition took her though some uncomfortable and inhospitable areas so to do it all on foot is an amazing thing to try.

You can read the whole article on the Guardian website:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/14/briton-to-walk-length-of-the-nile

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New Nile Cruise Homepage

I’ve just made some extensive changes to the homepage of the Nile Cruises 4u website that includes a lot more information as well as adding our Twitter feed as a tickertape feature.

Hopefully the new changes and information displayed on the front page of the site will help people realise all of the various options we can offer them.

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Sophie Maddocks Dressmaker Southport

This isnt’ to do with Nile Cruise but my daughter has recently opened a dressmakers shop in Southport and I am adding this link to encourage the search engine spiders to visit her listing in Google. Apologies, this is a dad’s unashamed attempt to have the search engine spiders visit her site.

Dressmaker Southport

Now…back to Nile Cruises!