A sailboat on the water with a city in the background

Standing tall in the heart of Cairo, the iconic Cairo Tower offers breathtaking views of the city skyline and the serene Nile River beneath a clear blue sky.

Hatem Ramadan

a body of water with trees in the background

Shelby Murphy Figueroa

a sailboat in a body of water with a mountain in the background

Felucca on the Nile in front of the Tombs of the Nobles

Eszter Kisgyura

Jordi Orts Segalés

people riding on boat on river during daytime

A water channel with boat in Egypt, with a pyramid in the background

Ruben Hanssen

a large building sitting on top of a cliff next to a body of water

Dmitrii Zhodzishskii

a sailboat on the water with a city in the background

people riding on boat on sea during daytime

Vincent FOURNEAU

It is easy to see from this image why people have been drawn to the Nile River in Egypt for thousands of years. Green farmland marks a distinct boundary between the Nile floodplain and the surrounding harsh desert.