We had left Aswan for Luxor three days earlier, just 40 of us aboard a boat that usually carried 250.

三天前我们离开阿斯旺前往卢克索，在这条能装载250名乘客的船上只有40名游客。

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This mythical river, which paints a green valley across the middle of desert, flows through Aswan, Luxor and, finally, Cairo, covering a distance of over 6,600 kilometres.

这条神化般的河流在干旱的沙漠地区形成了一条“绿色走廊”；它流经阿斯旺、卢克斯特并最终到达开罗，总长超过6,600公里。

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The overnight rail link from Egypt's capital city to its southern cultural treasure-troves of Luxor and Aswan was long famed for its exemplary Orient Express-style service.

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"We have been unlucky in Luxor and Aswan as the so-called cultural tourism has been down this year and last year also, " Mr Saad says.

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