exceptional luxury hotel - Sofitel Old Cataract chosen as the most beautiful hotel in the world

The August selection for the world's most beautiful hotel, Sofitel Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Egypt. The setting for Agatha Christie Death on the Nile, this historic colonial hotel is perhaps the best hotels all over Egypt. E 'and the experience with the artifact hunting and visit the tomb, are on the list for any traveler lists luxury adventure together.

The Old Cataract Experience

ImagineScenario: Add a note the great hall with high ceilings and the elegance of the Victorian and eastern arabesques mixture. Directly on the terrace. View from the Egyptian sailboat called a felucca gliding over the waters of the Nile, on both sides of the island of Elephantine. Feel the warm breeze as you sit down and notice the long career clothes quietly feeding on the large rooms. Investigation of this confluence of past and present, East and West, and when the waiter hands frozenMartini or cold lemonade, and watch the rest of everything. This is the Old Cataract Hotel, welcomes its guests with soothing interiors since 1899 and widely considered one of the best hotels in Egypt.

In the top of the granite outcrops on the river Nile is the Edge in Aswan, Egypt, the hotel takes its name from the rivers First Cataract (rapids). The spacious rooms feature antique furnishings, Egyptian linen, high ceilings andmost are painfully beautiful views of the Nile.

The Grand Restaurant 1902, some participation in a hotel was opened for the opening of the first Aswan Dam, with Winston Churchill, royalty and dignitaries in various French continental cuisine is served a large Moorish-colored interior. There is also a swimming pool with terraces overlooking the Nile. The sensual beauty of the Nile, you can take to the Old Cataract, an experiencenot to be missed.

luxury experience for the more adventurous from the base at the Old Cataract:

Take a taxi to the nearby island of Philae. You can opt for a boat with engine deal for you is this beautiful island, with temples to get it moved when the Aswan Dam was created to see filled.
Take a two-hour flight to visit the massive Abu Simbel - giant seated figures who presides over a small temple, which can be entered.
Go for a cruiseon one of the felucca, the graceful sailboats, of course, the Nile.
Hotel Sofitel Old Cataract

Location: Abtal El Tahrir Street, Aswan, Egypt, is more likely to arrive by train or bus, the airport in half an hour by taxi.

Luxury Style: adventurers who love the stench of past colonial Old Cataract, dreamer, Nile do nothing but watch the drifting lazy felucca, historians who want to gothe role of Howard Carter, Agatha Christie fans who see the shadow of "Death on the Nile", in fact almost all those who thought that they would like the tombs of ancient pharaohs as one of their list of life benefit has been seen.

What we heard: When it comes to hours, a competition for the most seductive city in the world for the terrace at the Old Cataract Hotel, which would certainly be a contender.