The three level Nile Pharoah offers you an entertaining and relaxing evening cruising the Nile River, the world's longest waterway.

This is the only themed boat operating in Cairo with everything decorated in a pharaonic style.

The house band performs your all-time favorite western and oriental tunes, with a twist, as you dine on a buffet dinner.

The dinner cruise includes spectacular belly dancing and a folklore band, with the unforgettable and extraordinarily colorful tannoura spin (in keeping with Egypt's Whirling Dervishes tradition).

The Nile Pharaoh offer an entertainment experience sure to be embalmed in your memory!

Enjoy a camel ride (approximately 15 minutes), which is how these ruins, located some three quarters of a mile (1,200 meters) from the west bank opposite the southern tip of the island of Elephantine, are usually accessed.

The monastery was given the name St Simeon by archaeologists and travelers, but earlier Arabic and Coptic sources called it Anba Hatre (Hidra, Hadri, Hadra), after an anchorite who was consecrated a bishop of Syene (now Aswan) by Patriarch Theophilus (385-412 AD).

Anba Hatre married at the age of eighteen. Tradition says that just after the wedding, he encountered a funeral procession which inspired him to preserve his chastity and later become a disciple of Saint Baiman.

After eight years of ascetic practices under the supervision of his teacher, he retired to the desert and applied himself to the study of the life of Saint Antony. He died during the time of Theodosius I.

The Pharaonic Village began, like so many other great wonders of our world, with a dream. Dr. Hassan Ragab, already famous for his rediscovery of the ancient techniques for making papyrus, had begun to ponder the possibility of a living museum with real people, actors in costume and in a realistic locale, taking the place of static exhibits.

It was after a visit to Disney World's EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida, that his idea took root. Dr. Ragab believed EPCOT "was too computerized" and there was nothing human about it. He began to think, "Dare I have real, live people in my village, dressed in the manner of three or four thousand years ago?"

The result is The Pharaonic Village, a living museum of ancient Egyptian life where visitors can sail on a network of canals and view the remarkably realistic recreation of the past.