A man selling roasted sweet potatoes wheeled his cart directly into six lanes of moving traffic, set up between two idling buses, and kept working as though he were standing in a quiet kitchen. Around him, cars braided past each other with no visible signaling system beyond the horn, which in Cairo functions less as a warning than as conversation. I asked my hotel doorman how anyone crosses that road on foot. He shrugged and
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Deep in Egypt’s southernmost reaches, roughly 140 miles southwest of Aswan and barely a stone’s throw from the Sudanese border, sits one of the ancient world’s most fascinating architectural achievements. The temple of Abu Simbel rests on the western bank of Lake Nasser in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, a location so remote it once required a multi-day Nile voyage to reach. Today, it draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
The man behind Abu …
With one ship already sailing the Nile and two more under construction, Viking this week celebrated the naming of its newest river ship, the Viking Osiris, in Luxor, Egypt. Designed specifically to sail the Nile, Osiris was built at Massara shipyard in Cairo and will sail Viking’s bestselling Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary.
Viking Osiris joins Viking Ra, which launched in 2018, and Viking Aton, coming in 2023. At the ceremony, Viking also announced that …