African Cruises

African Cruises Cradle of Humanity Your expedition starts on Crete, site of the Palace of Knossos, the labyrinth of Greek mythology. You sail over the Mediterranean Sea to Alexandria, Egypt, once home to the greatest library in the world. Up the Nile you travel, seeing one of the world's most ancient civilizations. The Valley of the Kings and the pyramids at Giza lay before you. Then past the cataracts which marked the end of the Pharoah's domain and the end of the world that the ancient's knew.

Follow the Nile past Khartoum to its source at Lake Victoria. Then explore the Great Rift Valley, and go on aerial safari in the game preserves of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. See Great Zimbabwe, a lost african city of mysterious circular stone walls. Go down the Lualaba river to Stanley Falls. Follow the routes of Stanley and Livingstone down the Congo River over the densest jungle in Africa.

Strike out north to Lake Chad, then west along the Niger River to fabled Timbuktu. Then sail across the Sahara Desert to Tunisia and the ruins of ancient Carthage. Fly over Sicily and Malta on your trip back to Crete.

12,000 miles - 8 days


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