Private journeys through Egypt

Egypt, read — not merely seen.

Private journeys with Egyptologists who can actually read the walls — at the pace of the river, with access the convoys never reach.

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Our way of travelling

Most of Egypt is seen from a coach window, at the same hour as everyone else. We think a country this old deserves to be read — slowly, privately, by someone who has spent a lifetime learning to.

Two ways to see Egypt

The same temples. A different country.

Egypt can be endured in a convoy, or understood in private. The sites are identical. Almost nothing else is.

The convoy

How most of Egypt is sold

  • A cabin on a ship of a hundred and fifty
  • The same temple at the same crowded hour as a dozen other groups
  • A guide who meets you at the gate and leaves at the next
  • A fixed schedule that answers to the timetable, not the light
  • The standard ticket, the standard route, the standard photograph
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How we travel instead

  • Your own boat, your own car, your own itinerary
  • The Valley of the Kings at opening; Kom Ombo at dusk, emptied
  • One Egyptologist, with you from the first day to the last
  • Everything timed to the hour the light is best and the crowds are gone
  • Seti I, and the tombs that rarely open, when they do.
Where we go

Destinations

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Luxor — Destination Guide
West & East Bank

Luxor — Destination Guide

Aswan — Destination Guide
The frontier

Aswan — Destination Guide

Cairo — Destination Guide
Four thousand years

Cairo — Destination Guide

Abu Simbel — Destination Guide
The deep south

Abu Simbel — Destination Guide

How to travel

Signature journeys

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Christmas & New Year on the Nile

Festive journey

Christmas & New Year on the Nile

Fourteen private days over the festive weeks — Christmas under sail on your own dahabiya, New Year above the First Cataract at Aswan, and the Pyramids kept for the very end.

14 days / 13 nightsPrivate throughout

From €9,999 / pp

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The Complete Egypt

Grand journey

The Complete Egypt

Thirteen private days the length of the country, built around five nights under sail — with the Pyramids held back for the very end.

13 days / 12 nightsPrivate throughout

From €7,500 / pp

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The Nile & the Red Sea

Grand journey

The Nile & the Red Sea

Thirteen private days in two halves — Egypt's greatest monuments by river, and then four days of doing nothing by the sea, which is the half most itineraries forget to give you.

13 days / 12 nightsPrivate throughout

From €7,999 / pp

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Why Sillage

Four things we will not compromise

I

Private, always

Never a group, never a convoy. Your journey is yours alone — the boat, the car, the guide, the hours.

II

Read by an expert

Certified Egyptologists who can read the walls, not guides who recite a script. The difference is the whole journey.

III

Access beyond the route

Tombs past the standard ticket, sites at the hour they open, moorings away from the usual stops. Where special permission is needed, we confirm it before you book.

IV

Honest counsel

We will tell you what isn't worth your time, and which journey isn't right for you. Advice, not a sales pitch.

Most people are shown the Valley of the Kings in an hour and moved on. Give it a morning, with someone who can actually read the walls, and a tomb stops being a corridor of pictures — it becomes the most ambitious thing a civilisation ever attempted.
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see-YAZH · French

The trail a boat leaves on still water — and the trace of something fine that lingers after it has passed. The name we travel under, and the impression we hope a journey leaves.

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See Egypt, properly.

Tell us your dates and what matters most to you. A journey designer will shape a private proposal, built around you — with no obligation.

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