Busy tourist market, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, River Nile, Egypt. - stock photo

Busy tourist market, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, River Nile, Egypt. The River Nile has always and continues to be a lifeline for Egypt. Trade, communication, agriculture, water and now tourism provide the essential ingredients of life - from the Upper Nile and its cataracts, along its fertile banks to the Lower Nile and Delta. In many ways life has not changed for centuries, with transport often relying on the camel on land and felucca on the river