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Cairo to Aswan · Arab Republic of Egypt

The Nile, Privately

النيل

The pyramids before the gates open, a restored sailing dahabiya down the river, and Egyptologists who answer to your family alone. The grand tour, returned to its proper grandeur.

DurationEight nights FromUSD 180,000

The Journey

Egypt rewards privacy more than almost anywhere on earth, and gives it to almost no one. We change that. You stand before the Pyramids in the hour before they open to the world, descend into chambers normally sealed, and read the river the way it was always meant to be read — slowly, from its own water.

Your dahabiya is a restored sailing vessel of the kind that carried the nineteenth century’s great travellers, crewed for your family alone. By day, temples opened privately; by night, the lateen sails and a chef’s table on deck. The scholars travelling with you are among the finest of their generation.

Signature Moments

Three the others
cannot arrange.

A handful of moments unique to this commission. Everything around them — the residences, the table, the hours — is composed to match.

  1. 01

    Giza, before the gates

    The plateau privately, before opening, and access to chambers within the Great Pyramid that the public never sees.

  2. 02

    A sailing dahabiya

    A restored river vessel under lateen sail, crewed and provisioned for your family alone, between Luxor and Aswan.

  3. 03

    The temples, held

    Karnak, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings opened privately, with an Egyptologist who has published on each.

The Particulars

Composed to your
measure, not ours.

The figures below are a guide to one shape this journey can take. Your commission is priced privately, against what you ask of it.

Duration
Eight nights
Party
Up to twelve, by private commission
On the river
A private restored dahabiya
In your company
Two senior Egyptologists
From
USD 180,000

By Introduction

Begin a conversation.

There is no brochure to request and nothing to book — only the start of a journey made entirely for you. Tell us a little, and we will take it from there.

Begin a conversation

Commissions from USD 100,000 · In the strictest confidence