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No trip to Egypt is complete without taking a journey down the River Nile. The Nile was the life-blood of Ancient Egypt, its waters fertilising the land, carrying trade and providing fish and textiles: the Papyrus reeds that grew alongside the Nile were made into the earliest forms of paper.

A Nile boat trip is also a convenient way to see many of the old temples of Egypt as well as typical Egyptian villages that built up around the delta land either side of the river. The Aswan High Dam, the newer version of the Aswan Dam is also definitely worth a look. It is a massive construct and modern feat of engineering that has helped control the flooding of the Nile to protect the villages that have multiplied at its banks.