Sailing felucca
Sightseeing with your private felucca and captain(s)
for some hours around Aswan
or overnight down the Nile for 1, 2 or 3 days
Prices
Felucca Sailing
1 - 4 guests Hourly felucca pricing
Sunset Felucca (2 hour sail at sunset time): $35
3 Hour Felucca adventure: $42
4 Hour Felucca adventure: $56
5 Hour Felucca adventure: $70
6 Hour Felucca adventure: $84
7 Hour Felucca adventure: $98
Hourly Motorboat: $15
5 - 8 guests Hourly felucca pricing
Sunset Felucca (2 hour sail at sunset time): $40
3 Hour Felucca adventure: $45
4 Hour Felucca adventure: $60
5 Hour Felucca adventure: $75
6 Hour Felucca adventure: $90
7 Hour Felucca adventure: $105
Hourly Felucca Motorboat: $15
If no wind: sail with current
In case (!) there is no wind to sail: Motorboat to tear the felucca against the current and then sail back quietly (with the current, without motorboat, very relaxing and beautiful):
cost for felucca as above
plus 1x 15 USD for the motorboat
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Meet at ferrystation
Does not include transportation to ferry dock. If staying far from the Nile and the ferry docks – additional transportation or taxis will be required.
Destinations
Take your time for sailing and sightseeing
Please see this website with many suggestions where to go to or what to choose. Count 3 to 7 hours, and find useful advices.
Overnight felucca tours are possible. Please click here for information.
The art to make coffee
Visit Seheyl and ancient inscriptions (Famine Stela)
Felucca Sailing
Points of Interest
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- Souk
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- Elephantine
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- Botanical garden
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- Tombs of the Nobles
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- Aga Khan
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- Ibis
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- Best Coffee
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- Seheyl Village
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- Inscriptions: Famine Stela
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- Old Dam
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- Gharb Seheyl
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- Gharb Aswan
Good to know
The felucca will have a sun blind, but please bring a cap or a scarf to protect your head from the sun in case you get out from the felucca. Sun cream and mosquito-repellent spray is also good to have.
Of course the feluccas are stocked with all safety equipment.
Picnic (prices see above): Only fresh fruits, vegetabels and meat (beef, chicken, if you like also fish) are used to prepare delicious meals. An icebox keeps the food and beverages cool. Hot drinks (tea, coffee) are available and for free all day.
Because of environmental reasons (not to produce too much garbage) „normal“ dishes and glasses are being used.
Because of course the feluccas depend on the wind we don’t guarantee any schedule.
When visiting a sight, tickets are not included and have to be paid at the ticket counters of your interest.
In case you are invited in a Nubian village to see a private house and have some tea, please leave a tip to appreciate their hospitality and time.
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- Bird near Seheyl
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- Philae
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- Elephantine
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- Learn young
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- dive deep
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- enjoy!
Stay in contact
… Highlights of the trip were the outings on the felucca – we felt like princesses being taken on these private trips – everything was done to make sure we enjoyed ourselves – all that for a very acceptable and honest price! …
… Then came the highlight of our time in Aswan, a trip on a felucca. The trip was wonderful, all the time we were given options of things to do and let us tailor the trip to our tastes with his guidance. Our trip to his home, his mother’s home and his village was very interesting and everyone gave us a very warm welcome. It was a shame we did not have any longer as we could have had a much longer trip on the felucca …
