L'EGYPTE AUTREMENT
Paul Bedros, the agency's owner, is a French-speaking Copt with over 25 years' experience in tourism, working with leading French agencies. His team of specialists is ready to listen to your needs. Whether it's a tailor-made cruise with friends or family, or a trip based on a theme such as yoga, initiation, etc., L'Égypte Autrement will adapt to offer you the trip of your dreams. For a cruise on the Nile, the agency has 4 boats of different sizes. Experienced French-speaking Egyptologist guides. We recommend...
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It all began at the Kalabasha boat cemetery, hidden at the foot of the Aswan Dam, during a walking and boating survey on Lake Nasser. Between two modest pharaonic temples saved from the waters by UNESCO, lay the whole history of the navigation of the mythical river..
It is thanks to Jack Bollet who founded Nomade Aventure, among others, that the sandal and dahabieh boats started to sail on the Nile again. This visionary of travel imagined the tourists discovering the Nile by sailing on the old boats intended at the time for the transport of materials. Paul Bedros was charmed by the idea and the two of them collaborated in the development of a different way of traveling on the Nile.
These sturdy steel hulls designed floated sadly between two waters; Like sorrowful souls, melancholic of their past, left half-prisoners of the fertile silt of the Nile, Sandal and Dahabieh begging to be resurrected
The Sandal, what was left of it, a rusty hull with a patina from decades of river transport of sandstone and limestone blocks torn from the desert. The majestic former royal Dahabieh leaned to starboard like an old English baroness in Sunday best. The art nouveau panelling recalled her glorious past
The idea seemed as crazy as it was seductive and after all, these boats were made for the sacred river and its thousand whims, a hull that marries perfectly with the wild shores to stroll along. The sails, once the masts are assembled, allow a silent navigation, letting the Sahara wind crackle in the palm trees.
It was then that Jack, Paul and the others reinvented boats. Shipowners, carpenters, boilermakers and Nubian sailors resurrected the Nile's beauties, making them sail again on the waves. Finally, cooks and guides arrived to share the secret Nile with travelers from all over the world, far, far away from the factory ships.
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Members' reviews on L'EGYPTE AUTREMENT
Alice
Esmat, le guide nous a très bien accompagnés dans nos visites et notre vie à bord..
Au Caire, les minibus fournis ont été parfaits.
Bref, un très beau voyage.
Paul et toute son équipe se mettent en 4 pour un vrai voyage sur mesure et une découverte complètement personnalisée du pays, de ses temples bien sûr, mais aussi de sa culture, de ses villages, de ses paysages.
La croisière en dahabieh était magnifique, la cuisine est succulente, l’équipe à la fois discrète et toujours présente pour nous.
Paul nous a fait la surprise d’accompagner la dernière soirée de l’année en musique et tout l’équipage nous a discrètement initiés à la danse égyptienne. Magique!
Notre guide Hussein, tout au long de la croisière et à Louxor, nous a fait partager son érudition d’archéologue avec simplicité, et humour, merci Hussein!
Merci aussi à Andro pour la découverte incroyable de l'oasis de Fayoum, et à nos deux guides du Caire qui se sont mis en 4 pour se plier à toutes nos attentes.
Les mots manquent pour faire part de notre entière satisfaction vis à vis de « l’Égypte autrement ».
Grâce à vous, nous avons découvert beaucoup plus que des merveilles, mais un pays, une culture et nous avons fait de très belles rencontres.
Merci encore pour ce voyage sans faute, et à très bientôt, nous reviendrons!