Tag: Nile Cruises

We’ve just created a new Nile Cruise Video showing the features of the Nile Premium Nile Cruise ship.  We’ve got some great Nile Cruise offers on at the moment for Nile cruises on the Nile Premium for November and December which you can see more details of on our Nile Cruise Bargains page.

Here’s the video:

We are currently featuring an outstanding Nile Cruise Bargain on the excellent 5 Star Deluxe Nile Premium Nile Cruise Ship for departure on November 29th from just £775.

The Nile Premium is a really luxurious cruise ship and one of the newest on the Nile.  It has a sophisticated and chic feel and will make an excellent base for you to enjoy a typical Nile Cruise itinerary taking in all of the major tombs, temples and sites.

Space at this price is VERY limited so if you’d like more information dont’ delay.  Call us on our FREEPHONE number 0808 1089 100 while space still exists.

After our recent episode of someone “hacking” into the main Nile Cruises 4u website and destroying much of the content we have taken the opportunity to have look at the overall design of the site and look at areas that we think could do with a revamp.

Currently we are redesigning the overall feel of various pages starting with the Nile Cruise Bargains page closely followed by our Nile Cruise Packages page.  Both pages are actually in the midst of the revamp and wont’ be finished for a day or two but hopefully visitors will find them fresher, more vibrant and hopefully containg more Nile Cruise information.

 

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Yesterday I was reading the excellent Observer On Sunday and they have an interesting section each week called “On My Radar” where they ask arts personalities their suggestions for “Art”, “Restaurant”, Ehibitions”, “Music” and “Book”.  It’s interesting to read about other peoples interests and recommendations.  I particularly enjoy the music and book recommendations.  This week it was the recommendations of Simon McBurney who is the artistic director of Complicite, the theatre company.

What caught my eye was his “Exhibition” recommendation for the “British Museum: Journey Through The Afterlife” that we’ve been recommending ourselves here on the Nile Cruise Blog.  What appear to fascinate him are the “Fayum Portraits“, otherwise known as the “mummy portraits” which are portraits of the Egyptian dead going into the afterlife, painted while the people were still alive. 

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When you undertake your Nile Cruise and begin to visit sites such as The Valley of the Kings, Kom Ombo, Karnak Temple, etc, you will be shown examples of hieroglyphs by your Egyptologist/Guide.

When you first see the rows of script you will, if you are anything like me, simply see rows of figures and symbols.  However, on reading the Guardian Ancient Egypt Guide, I now know that:

1. 1) “Hieroglyph” is a Greek word and means “sacred carving”.
2. 2) It was used continuously in Egypt for almost 4000 years – much longer than our alphabet has been used.
   3) When Egypt became a Christian country the traditional temples were closed and the ancient script was abandoned but the same language was used but written with a form of the Greek alphabet known as Coptic.
   4) There are roughly 750 hieroglyphs.

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