A Nile cruise or a new perspective on incentive in Egypt

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You may think you know Egypt well and have seen everything there, but sometimes all it takes is a different perspective to discover new things. This is what the participants of the Melc Travel discovery  fam trip did, embarking on a unique journey on a Nile River yacht.

We spent a day on a dahabiya. According to Wikipedia, "a dahabiya is a type of flat-bottomed, one-and-a-half-masted sailing and rowing vessel used for Nile River voyages by wealthy Europeans in the 1820s and 1920s." Since there is no engine on a dahabiya, we were towed by a tugboat, and we occasionally raised our sails. It was a peaceful and uninterrupted journey, with no Wi-Fi available. Later, we were connected to the internet, but we had already entered a digital detox phase. So we didn't do anything at all. We just looked around, lay in the jacuzzi, swung in the hammocks, chatted, sunbathed, ate delicious food, drank a lot of wine, and in the evening enjoyed the performances of the artists who entertained us with music and dance (an interactive folk show). There were 10 twins and two suites with a balcony. It was an incredibly happy pause in our busy lives.