The rush of clicking ‘book now’ can be half the thrill of traveling. Planning your trip far in advance, though, has a longer-lasting payoff: you save money, lock in the best experiences, and extend ...

If you're landing in Cairo and have the ancient cities of Luxor and Aswan on your itinerary, read this before opting to take ...

The children were already loving Egypt. And so were we. Our train, one of the two sleepers that make the 11-hour, 600-mile journey to Aswan each night, was due at 8pm. At 8.30pm the giant diesel ...

My five-day Nile River tour, arranged by Dahab Hostel, left from Aswan, a town 12 hours and nearly 600 miles south of Cairo. A double-compartment for me and my partner on the sleeper train cost ...

Train services in the south of the country from Cairo to Aswan resumed operations after protestors in the Al-Ayat city in the Giza governorate ended a demonstration that blocked the city's train ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the Hashim family was waiting again, this time in the Palestine Cafe near Aswan’s train station, where they would catch a train for the 13-hour trip to Cairo. On the ...