TRAVEL THE WORLD - LUXOR, EGYPT

This beautiful view, photographed in 2004, is what Agatha Christie would have seen looking out from her hotel in Luxor as she wrote Death on the Nile.

TRAVEL THE WORLD - LUXOR, EGYPT

The first impression of the Nile is of its immensity. An appreciation of the beauty of the Nile comes later, when you have seen it at various times of day, in the early morning, at mid-day, at dusk and at sunset. Like many functional things that have served a population for centuries, the felucca, photographed at Luxor in 2004, is a thing of grace and beauty.