Bypass the modern cruises and their flaws and ... landscapes and isolated relics of the Nile basin. Unlike their ancestral counterparts, modern felucca tours come with toilets and hot running ...

Tour operator TUI expanded its river cruises outside Europe with the five-star, all-inclusive ship Al Horeya, which recently began sailing the Nile.

Nile cruises are available all year round but because ... If the adventurer in you wants to sleep under the stars in a felucca (a traditional wooden vessel with sails), go to Explore.