With the 20th Century Fox remake of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile hitting our screens this winter, marking the 40th anniversary of its first cinematic adaptation, 2018 is the year to visit the land of the pyramids.

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Christie’s classic whodunit has inspired Egyptian travel since it was first published in 1936. “The attraction of the exotic backdrop and a collection of culturally diverse elements isolated on a ship make Death on The Nile simply irresistible,” comments John Curran, author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks.

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You better be ready to retrace Poirot’s steps across Egypt. The colonial-era luxury Winter Palace in Luxor and the Old Cataract in Aswan, where Christie wrote her masterpiece, still have the best views of the Nile’s oily waters.

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Don’t follow the nonsensical route the S.S Karnak took in both the novel and the 1978 blockbuster though, or it’ll be a proper Death on the Nile. All characters meet at Cairo, but the ship mysteriously weighs anchor at Aswan, 800 km away from the capital. From there, the cruise travels 200km north towards Karnak Temple at Luxor, to eventually turn 400 km south towards Abu Simbel. Wait, what?

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With a route so obviously wrong, it isn’t surprising that someone wound up dead.