Elephantine Island - Nubian Villages

Our 'home away from home', Elephantine Island is where we usually live in Egypt when not with a Tour Group. Mike is writing a major book on the island's history, has published several papers on his finds there, and presented many lectures on this fascinating isle - let us show you around a place that has become very special to us.

Elephantine Island has been inhabited for over 5000 years and its modern owners - Kenuzi Nubians - are a proud people with their own unique culture and traditions. Let Mike explain these to you as we wander around the two local villages on the island and get to meet some of their inhabitants.

Around mid-afternoon we shall share a traditional Nubian meal in a mud-brick, Nubian home in Siou Village. We guarantee that this is not some 'made-up tourist show' but a real, traditional feast prepared by some of the women in the village that we know very well. The village women will have been busy cooking while we have been touring the island, and they will serve our banquet in the courtyard of a real home. Many of our past participants said that this was one of the great highlights of their trip!

A traditional, home-style Nubian feast awaits you!