The August selection for the finest hotels in the world, the Sofitel Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Egypt. The setting for Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, this historic Colonial Hotel is possibly the best hotel in Egypt. It is and experience, should visit with artifact hunting and grave, that on the list to the list combines all the luxury adventure traveler.
The Old Cataract Experience
Consider the following scenario: Enter the bigLobby with high ceilings and notice the blend of Victorian elegance and eastern arabesques. Keep straight until you reach the terrace. View from the Egyptian sailboat called a felucca gliding through the water of the Nile on both sides of the island of Elephantine. Feel the warm breeze as you sit down and take note of the long robe makers calmly eating the wide halls. Survey of the confluence of past and present, between East and West, and when the waiter your hands icy cold martini and lemonade,and consider the peace and tranquility of it all. This is the Old Cataract Hotel, welcoming guests to its calming interior design since 1899 and unanimously considered one of the best hotels in Egypt.
On a granite outcrop on the banks of the Nile in Aswan, Egypt stands, the hotel takes its name) from the rivers First Cataract (rapids. The large rooms are spacious, with antiques, fine Egyptian cotton linen, high ceilings, and most have painfully beautiful NileViews.
The large restaurant, 1902, one was of several in the hotel for the opening of the first Aswan Dam, with Winston Churchill, ordered royalty and dignitaries inaugurated present. French continental cuisine is served in a large colorful Moorish interior. There is also a swimming pool with a terrace overlooking the Nile. The languorous beauty of the Nile will collect you at the Old Cataract, an experience should not be missed.
LuxuryExperience for the adventurous from your base at the Old Cataract:
Take a taxi to the nearby island of Philae. You can take a boat motor seen you negotiate with this fantastic island, which is filled with temples that have been taken to be preserved when created.Take the Aswan dam was a 2-hour flight to Abu Simbel to visit the huge - giant seated figures presided over a small temple, entered.Go for a cruise on one of the graceful felucca sailboats canOf course, that over the Nile.
Sofitel Old Cataract Hotel
Location: Abtal El Tahrir Street, Aswan, Egypt, is more likely to arrive by train or bus, the airport half an hour by taxi.
Luxury Style: adventurous, the puffs of the colonial past of the Old Cataract love dreamers who want nothing more than to see feluccas drift lazily across the Nile to walk, the historians who wish to follow in the footsteps of Howard Carter, Agatha Christie Fans whowant to look the Shadow of "Death on the Nile", actually just about anyone who thought that they would like to see the tombs of ancient pharaohs as a list of its life has had successes.
What we heard: When a competition for the most beguiling spot in the world around him would be the hours of the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel is certainly a contender.
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