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Article: Slowly down the Nile with the drifters
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- February 25, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 Sunday Star-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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AT THE risk of creating a hostage to fortune, the next two months
are likely to be an ideal time to take a Nile cruise. Because of
political unrest, which still imposes limits on the cruising range,
there are too many boats chasing too few visitors, so prices are
keen.
As the bulk of Egypt's fantastic archeological sites are
concentrated along the Nile, cruising by boat has clear advantages.
There is no tedious packing and repacking as you move from place to
place and there is room to stroll the decks, sunbathe, splash in the
pool or just lean on the ship's rail as you "run the gauntlet before
eternity" in the words of Nilophile Rudyard Kipling.
The thin ribbon of fertile shoreland, the ...