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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 155 W: 0 N: 234]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-n-g.gif) (740) | View Across the Nile River from Old Cataract Hotel
The famous old Sofitel Cataract hotel opened in 1899 and has been rated as one of of the best hotels in the world. It feathers Agatha Chirstie’s Death on the Nile and combines colonial grandeur with an Oriental motif. The Cataract's guest list includes Czar Nicolas II, Howard Carter, Sir Winston Churchill, Agatha Christie, the Duke of Connaught, the 3rd son of Queen Victoria, the Aga Khan III, King Farouk of Egypt, the Shah of Iran, Nahas Pacha, Khedive Abbas Helmi Soverein of Egypt, Mohamed V King of Morocco, Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Kohl, Queen Noor of Jordan, Lady Diana, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Condoleezza Rice.
The Old Cataract Hotel sits on top a granite hill at the Nile river's edge in Aswan. It is named for the Nile’s First Cataract (rapids) at the traditional northern border of Nubia. Thomas Cook, the grand tour manager of Egypt had the hotel constructed, mostly for the tourists that his company was escorting down the Nile at the end of the 19th century. Today it remains one of the finest hotels in Egypt. See Workshop |
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