SCUBA Show 2008 Liveaboard Trip Prize Winner Announced

Congratulations to Jay Hatton from Bisalia, California for winning a trip for two on a 7 night liveaboard on the Red Sea from Hurghada, Egypt with Emperor Divers.  Mike entered our drawing last weekend at SCUBA Show 2008 in Long Beach, California.  Learning Through Travel had over 250 entries for the drawing for the free Red Sea liveaboard trip and we would like to thank all those patrons at SCUBA Show who took the time to stop by our booth and enter the contest.

The Nile Cruise: The Best Way to See the Treasures of Ancient Egypt

A visit to Egypt is not complete without cruising the Nile River.  Nile cruises run from Aswan to Luxor in Southern Egypt and include stops at amazing tourist sites that are not easily accessible by tour buses such as the temples of Edfu, Kom Obmo and Esna.  Also part of a Nile cruise is a pre-cruise tour of Aswan including a Felucca sailboat ride on the Nile and possibly a visit to Abu Simbel in the deep south of Egypt on Lake Nasser. Abu Simbel is an UNESCO site where two huge temples of Pharaoh Rames II and his favorite Queen Nefertari were moved 100 feet up a hillside in the 1960's to save the structures from flooding due to the building of the High Aswan dam.  The Nile cruise along with days in Luxor to see Luxor and Karnak temples and the Valley of the Kings and in Cairo to see the Pyramids of Giza, The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities and other sites make for complete land tour of Egypt.  Our most popular tours have travelers departing their Nile cruise ship in Luxor and heading to Sharm el Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula for a week of amazing land based diving. Sharm el Sheikh is one of the top destinations in the world because of the city's proximity to the top dive sites in the Northern Red Sea.  7 night liveaboard trips departing from Hurghada, Egypt are a popular alternative for those divers who want to maximize their exposure to the top Red Sea dive sites.  The combination of an Egyptian land tour of famous temples and antiquities and a 6 to 7 night dive package, either a land based program from Sharm or liveaboard from Hurghada, make Egypt truly a trip of a lifetime dive destination.  Please consult our Available Trips page to download itineraries with dates and updated 2009 pricing for our Egypt-Red Sea tour program that feature a Nile cruise. Or request a Full Color Brochure that includes a complete review of our most popular Egypt-Red Sea programs and extensions.

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