Over a century since it first cruised the glittering waters of the Nile, the steam ship "Sudan" draws tourists who are keen to follow the trail of legendary crime novelist Agatha Christie. Tourists like to start their journey at the Old Cataract Hotel, ideally in the suite where Dame Agatha is believed to have stayed while writing her 1937 novel "Death on the Nile", in Egypt's southern city of Aswan, some 920 kilometres south of the capital.
Ahead of sir Kenneth Branagh’s new version of ‘Death on The Nile’, Egypt is keen to encourage tourists to return.
9. Old Cataract Hotel gardens
The garden of the Old Cataract Hotel overlooking the Nile river in Egypt's southern city of Aswan, some 920 kilometres south of the capital, where British crime fiction writer Dame Agatha Christie is believed to have stayed while writing her 1937 novel "Death on the Nile" Photo: KHALED DESOUKI
10. Agatha Christie Suite
An employee (mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic) of the Old Cataract Hotel stands through the door of the suite where British crime fiction writer Dame Agatha Christie is believed to have stayed while writing her 1937 novel "Death on the Nile", Photo: KHALED DESOUKI
11. Steam ship "PS Sudan"
A view of the engine section of the Nile steam ship "PS Sudan" Photo: KHALED DESOUKI