Board a Nile River Cruise with A&K Sanctuary

If Agatha Christie took a Nile voyage today, we like to think she would do it aboard one of our A&K Sanctuary riverboats — consistently voted the best on the river, from boutique cruisers to a handsome six-suite dahabiya.

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Our four small, chic boats are worthy successors to the elegant vessels of another century. Waistcoated waiters mix martinis in the bar; in the smart dining room, fantastic lunches and dinners are prepared by accomplished chefs. On the top deck, parasols and daybeds are arranged around a small pool. Our boats even have a spa and small gym. Daytimes are spent exploring Egypt’s extraordinary open-air museum along the banks of the Nile, led by our brilliant guides and eminent Egyptologists.

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The River Nile wends its way more than 4,000 miles from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea. Yet it’s the 130-mile section between Aswan and Luxor in southern Egypt that exerts the most powerful hold on the collective imagination. Here are many of the largest, most elaborate and intriguing structures built in ancient times, including the massive Temple of Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Kom Ombo and the Greco-Egyptian shrine to Isis at Philae.