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A Red Sea yacht charter offers a rich mixture of cultures, history and landscapes amongst some of the most exotic superyacht destinations in the world.

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With the weather remaining inviting throughout the year, the Red Sea is an ideal destination for a private yacht charter vacation. With blue skies stretching for miles and turquoise waters all but calling out to be cruised on, there are many desert shores to visit. Indeed, from the  surroundings of Egypt to the dramatic coastlines of the Sinai Peninsula, there’s always something to see and experience.

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Whether it’s the thriving town of Hurghada, or the more tranquil waters surrounding Sharm-El-Sheikh, the destinations found around the Red Sea and Egypt have something to please every kind of visitor. Also home to a variety of iconic dive sites, charter guests have the perfect opportunity to get out and acquainted with the rich marine life on offer.

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The Red Sea and Egpyt is home to a whole range of treasures, from natural wonders to the sun blessed sands of the bronzed desert plains. Bordered by crystal waters and steeped with natural marvels, the destination offers visitors a once in a lifetime vacation.

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From the stunning resorts found around Sharm-El-Sheikh to the various dive sites, an itinerary around the Red Sea can be created to meet the most widespread of desires.

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For more information about renting a private luxury charter yacht in the Red Sea, please contact your preferred charter broker. They will be happy to assist in putting together your dream itinerary, combining your party's needs with recommendations about the best time to visit this superb destination.

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EGYPT YACHT CHARTERS

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There are 5 sailboats available for charter in Egypt, prices start from €3,608 per week. Most budget friendly option for a vacation.

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5 powerboats available in Egypt for rent, starting from €4,298 per week. Bareboat or crewed options available for sailing vacations.

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Average yacht charter cost in Egypt starts from €3,608 per week. Graphic below represents fluctuation of charter prices in Egypt during the year, based on a sample of 50 boats ranging from 40 to 50-foot. This graphic shows months with lowest prices during the year as well high season when prices are above average. Before booking the boat at lowest rate, please check sailing conditions as usually best prices are during off season.

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Air temperature, precipitation and wind force may vary significantly during the year. Below you may find graphics with min and max temperature and average precipitation days in Egypt during the year. Book your charter vacation in Egypt wisely! Considering sailing conditions along with the best price offers

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The Nile River’s First and Only Luxury Charter Yacht Is Now Available for Hire

Float along egypt's famous river for around $100,000 per week., rachel cormack.

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Yachting Partners International (YPI) is giving you a chance to cruise the Nile River like very few others.

The full-service yachting house has welcomed what it claims is the first and only luxury charter yacht available on the world-famous body of water. Located in Luxor, Egypt , the 180-footer, christened Berge , will take seafarers along Africa’s longest river in the utmost comfort.

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The route, which runs between Luxor and Aswan, showcases a renowned stretch of the river that is dotted with incredible landmarks and breathtaking natural wonders. You’ll have the opportunity to see ancient monuments, such as Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple, along with the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.

The superyacht’s large windows give a great view of the Nile.  Barry Iverson

Guests will have a chance to appreciate Egyptian culture onboard, too. During “oriental night,” you’ll feast on the finest local cuisine, before dancing the night away to traditional Arabic music. You’ll also be treated to a gourmet candle-lit dinner on a private island by the Nile.

As for accommodation, Berge is equipped with nine lavish cabins and can sleep up to 18 guests in total. Each cabin features a soothing color palette, original artwork and full-width windows to highlight the surroundings. You can also expect luxe marble ensuites and plush Egyptian cotton fabric throughout. Naturally, butler service can be arranged to ensure you don’t have to worry about a thing while cruising.

Guests can enjoy all-day drinks and snacks on the sun-drenched upper deck.  Barry Iverson

Outdoors, meanwhile, there is ample space to soak in the views—and a few cocktails. In the spacious lounge area on the upper deck, for instance, guests can enjoy drinks and snacks before they take a dip in the refreshing plunge pool. You can also choose to indulge with a daily afternoon tea.

Sounds very civilized, indeed.

Berge is available for charter both in summer and winter. The weekly base rate is €84,037 ($93,750) in the low season and €99,225 ($110,693) in the high season. That price includes taxes and all onboard expenses.

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When it comes to sailing destinations, Egypt is a gem waiting to be discovered. A country steeped in ancient history and blessed with diverse landscapes, Egypt offers a unique backdrop for an unforgettable sailing journey, which Yachting.Rent is eager to help you explore.

Sailing in Egypt offers the rare opportunity to explore the legendary River Nile, the world’s longest river, with its lush banks revealing ancient temples and bustling modern cities alike. Along the Mediterranean coastline, you’ll find the vibrant port city of Alexandria, teeming with historic landmarks, bustling markets, and tantalizing cuisine.

But Egypt’s allure does not stop at the shoreline. It extends into the mesmerizing depths of the Red Sea. Known worldwide for its crystal-clear waters, thriving coral reefs, and diverse marine life, the Red Sea is a diver’s paradise. A sailing trip here allows for remarkable diving and snorkeling opportunities that are second to none.

The year-round warm weather in Egypt ensures a pleasant sailing experience no matter the season. Moreover, with consistent winds and a variety of sailing conditions, Egypt offers a unique sailing experience for both seasoned sailors and beginners.

Above all, Yachting.Rent believes that a journey through Egypt’s waters is more than just sailing. It’s an opportunity to delve into the heart of a fascinating culture, to marvel at the convergence of ancient and modern, and to bask in the serenity of its expansive landscapes. With our comprehensive yacht charter services, we aim to make your Egyptian sailing adventure not just a trip, but an experience of a lifetime. Egypt’s waters are waiting for you to set sail.

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At Yachting.Rent, we understand that choosing the right vessel for your Egyptian adventure is essential to maximizing your sailing experience. Whether you’re eager to explore the legendary River Nile, the bustling port city of Alexandria, or the crystal-clear waters of the Red Sea, our fleet includes both sailing boats and catamarans, each with unique advantages to cater to your sailing preferences and needs.

Our sailing boats are perfect for those looking for an authentic and intimate sailing experience. They are nimble and responsive, offering a closer connection to the water and wind. Their sleek design allows for smooth navigation through the Nile’s narrow waterways, while their deep keels offer stability, making them ideal for offshore exploration along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.

If comfort and space are your priorities, our catamarans would be an excellent choice. Their twin-hulled design provides a stable platform, reducing seasickness and making them perfect for families or larger groups. The spacious deck and living areas offer plenty of room for relaxation and socializing. Moreover, their shallow draft makes them ideal for exploring Egypt’s Red Sea, where they can easily access coral reefs and secluded bays for unrivaled snorkeling and diving experiences.

At Yachting.Rent, we are committed to ensuring you have the best possible sailing experience in Egypt. Whether you’re an experienced sailor or a beginner, we’re here to provide guidance and support in choosing the perfect vessel for your adventure. So whether you choose the charming elegance of our sailing boats or the luxurious comfort of our catamarans, we’re confident that your Egyptian sailing experience will be one to remember.

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At Yachting.Rent, we believe that Argentina is a hidden gem in the world of sailing destinations, offering an unparalleled blend of vibrant culture, diverse marine life, and majestic natural beauty. Here’s why we think Argentina should be your next sailing destination:

Diverse Coastline: Argentina’s extensive coastline spans over 4,000 km, offering a variety of landscapes from bustling port cities to serene, untouched beaches and rugged cliffs.

Breathtaking Destinations: Explore the bustling city of Buenos Aires, the picturesque fishing villages along the coast, or sail to the stunning Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of the continent.

Rich Marine Life: Argentina’s waters are teeming with diverse marine life. From the playful dolphins that frolic in the waves to the majestic whales that inhabit the waters of the Peninsula Valdes, you are in for an unforgettable natural spectacle.

Vibrant Culture and Gastronomy: Dock at any harbor and immerse yourself in Argentina’s rich culture, with its mouthwatering cuisine, vibrant music, and warm, welcoming locals.

Ideal Weather Conditions: With a wide range of climates due to its massive North-South expansion, you can find a perfect sailing spot in Argentina at any time of the year.

At Yachting.Rent, we are not just offering you a boat or a yacht; we’re offering you the keys to unlock an unparalleled maritime adventure in the heart of Argentina. Set sail with us and discover the wonders of this amazing sailing destination!

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Embarking on a sailing adventure with Yachting.Rent in Argentina, but can’t decide between a sailing boat and a catamaran? Let’s delve into the unique features of each, to help you choose the perfect vessel for your Argentine voyage.

Sailing Boat : The traditional sailing boat is a popular choice for many of our clients due to its sleek design and superior handling. It’s perfect for navigating through Argentina’s diverse waterways, from bustling harbors to quiet, secluded inlets. These vessels offer a balance of comfort and performance, making them ideal for both short day trips and extended sea voyages. They are also particularly suited for keen sailors who enjoy a more hands-on sailing experience.

Catamaran : Catamarans are loved for their stability, spaciousness, and speed. With two hulls, catamarans are exceptionally stable, making them a popular choice for families or those new to sailing. They offer ample space, including larger living areas, and often more luxurious amenities. Catamarans also tend to have shallow drafts, allowing them to venture where other boats cannot, perfect for exploring Argentina’s hidden beach coves and smaller inlets.

At Yachting.Rent, we offer both sailing boats and catamarans in a variety of sizes and styles to suit your personal preference, group size, and the nature of your journey. No matter what vessel you choose, our team is here to ensure you have an unforgettable sailing experience in Argentina’s incredible waters.

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• Explore in a small group of 8-16 travelers (average of 13)—guaranteed
• International airfare, airport transfers, government taxes, fees, and airline fuel surcharges unless you choose to make your own air arrangements*
• All land transportation
• Accommodations for 9 nights in hotels, 5 nights on our privately-chartered river-yacht
• 39 meals—14 breakfasts, 13 lunches, and 12 dinners (including 1 Home-Hosted Dinner)
• 21 small group activities
• Services of a local O.A.T. Trip Experience Leader who is also an accredited Egyptologist
• Gratuities for local guides, drivers, and luggage porters
• 5% Frequent Traveler Credit toward your next O.A.T. trip

DAY 1 Depart U.S. Activity Note: Many flights from the United States arrive in Cairo late at night. You may choose to arrive a day early to settle in before your adventure begins. Please call for details.

You depart today for your overnight flight from the U.S. to Cairo, Egypt.

DAY 2 Arrive Cairo, Egypt Destination: Cairo Accommodations: Cairo Marriott Hotel or similar

Activity Note: Travelers who took our arrive early option will have already spent the night at our Cairo hotel.

Afternoon/Evening: Upon arrival in Cairo late this afternoon (or early evening, depending on your flight) and have reserved your airfare with O.A.T. or purchased a transfer, an O.A.T. representative will meet you and escort you to your hotel, which should take approximately 45 minutes, depending on traffic. Set on an island in the Nile in the Zamalek district, our historic hotel—the first of three on our journey—offers a respite from the vibrant streets and exotic bustle of Africa’s largest capital. Hotel amenities will likely include several restaurants, cafés, and bars; along with elegant gardens and an outdoor pool. Air-conditioned rooms typically include a satellite TV, minibar, coffee- and tea-making facilities, and private bath.

After settling in, we’ll regroup in the lobby in the early evening and your Trip Experience Leader will lead you and your fellow travelers, including those who just arrived from our Jordan: The King's Highway from Amman to Petra pre-trip extension and those who arrived early in Cairo before the main adventure, on an orientation walk around the hotel grounds and surrounding area.

Dinner: On your own. Your Trip Experience Leader can offer suggestions on where to dine, or you may choose to eat at the hotel restaurant.

Evening: You’re free to explore on your own or retire to your room to rest up from your flight and prepare for tomorrow’s discoveries.

DAY 3 Visit Egyptian Museum Destination: Cairo Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Cairo Marriott Hotel or similar

Breakfast: Served buffet-style at the hotel beginning at 7am, with Egyptian and American options.

Morning: At about 9am, we'll gather in the hotel with our Trip Experience Leader, who will set the stage for our discoveries in Egypt with a more formal Welcome Briefing. This briefing gives us the chance to introduce ourselves and get to know the other members of our small group. We will review our itinerary in more detail (including any changes that may need to occur). Our Trip Experience Leader will discuss logistics, safety and emergency procedures, and answer any questions we may have.

Then, at about 10am, we’ll depart for the 30-minute drive to the world-renowned Egyptian Museum, home to the greatest Pharaonic treasures in the world. The museum’s vast exhibits will lend context to our later discoveries as we trace the history of Egypt from Cheops to Cleopatra. After our 2-hour guided tour, there will be time to reflect on Egypt’s illustrious pharaohs or wander the museum’s side rooms to glimpse the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians.

Around 12:30pm, we’ll drive 20 minutes to a local restaurant.

Lunch: At a local restaurant, at around 1pm, featuring traditional Egyptian fare.

Afternoon: After lunch, enjoy free time for your own discoveries. If you’d like activity suggestions, check with your Trip Experience Leader. Alternatively, you may wish to use this time to relax before our Welcome Dinner this evening.

Dinner: At about 6:15pm, we’ll enjoy a Welcome Dinner at a local restaurant.

Evening: You are free to retire to your room or perhaps purchase some cocktails at the bar with your fellow travelers and talk about the day's discoveries.

DAY 4 Visit the Pyramids of Giza • Controversial Topic: Women's rights in Egyptian society Destination: Cairo Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Cairo Marriott Hotel or similar

Morning: At about 9am, we’ll depart our hotel for a drive out to Giza to behold the Great Pyramids, including the greatest of them all—the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Khufu. The only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid was built for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) and was the world’s tallest man-made structure for more than 4,000 years. While here, we'll also have an opportunity to enjoy a camel ride. We can ponder another mystery for the ages at the Sphinx, enigmatic guardian of the Giza Plateau.

Lunch: At an local restaurant in Giza that specializes in grilled chicken and Egyptian fare, at around 1pm.

Afternoon: At about 3:15pm, we’ll return to our hotel for the remainder of the afternoon free to relax or do some further exploring independently, perhaps to visit one of nearby art galleries.

Around 5:30pm, we’ll be met by one of two female speakers to discuss the Controversial Topic of women’s rights in Egyptian society.

From ancient times to modern day, the role of women in Egyptian society has gradually evolved, and our conversation today will explore the extent of this evolution. To contextualize this complex issue, we’ll glean insight from the personal experiences of either a working wife and mother or a single, working woman. Both speakers grew up in Cairo, but their parents hail from rural villages—often leading to a cultural rift between the generations. As such, these women offer wide-ranging perspectives which are sure to cast a personal light on the delicate subject matter.

Egypt is divided on the push for gender equality—the northern part of the country being progressive and the southern part less so. This contrast is, of course, most stark between rural and urban areas. However, in recent years, advocates and Egypt-based organizations like the Egyptian Feminist Union have helped to increase awareness surrounding women's issues, such as lack of educational opportunities and equal representation in the workplace. And it seems that these efforts are having an impact: the number of women in the Egyptian parliament increased from 2% in 2005 to 25% in the following election alone, the literacy rate for women above 15 years old increased from 58% in 2006 to 65% in 2017, and the percentage of college graduated women (at the undergraduate level) increased from 8% in 2006 to 11% in 2017. Perhaps the biggest stride, though, was the passing of new legislation granting women the right to divorce their husbands, a law which only passed in 2000. We’ll talk more in-depth specifically about this groundbreaking decision later in our adventure.

Our speaker will share her story and address both sides of the issue for about 20 minutes before opening the conversation up to a 40-minute Q&A. Take this opportunity to ask any questions you may have—perhaps you'd like to know about gender-based discrimination in the workplace, or maybe you’re curious if her conservative family has warmed up to the idea of expanding women’s rights.

Dinner: On your own. Ask your Trip Experience Leader for suggestions.

Evening: The remainder of your evening is free for you to take advantage of the hotel’s amenities, relax with your travel companions in the lounge, or retire to your room and prepare for tomorrow’s flight to Aswan.

DAY 5 Fly to Aswan • Visit High Dam • Home-Hosted Dinner Destination: Aswan Meals included: B L Accommodations: Old Cataract Hotel or similar

Activity Note: Today's activities require an early wake up call of about 4am.

Exclusive O.A.T. Activity: This evening we'll venture into the home of a family in Aswan, where we'll enjoy a Home-Hosted Dinner. This is a special opportunity afforded to us by our small group size and made possible by the regional connections of our local Trip Experience Leaders. During our shared meal, you'll learn more about daily life in the region from these residents, and take part in the customs and culinary traditions of the region. Read more about this experience below.

Breakfast: A boxed breakfast will be available at the hotel beginning at 4am.

Early Morning: At about 4:30am, we transfer to the airport for our one-hour flight to Aswan, Egypt’s southernmost city (flight time subject to change). Set along an enchanting stretch of the Nile, Aswan is an ancient frontier town where life glides by as gently as the canvas-sailed feluccas that drift past the tropical islands dotting the river’s sapphire waters. Along the way, we’ll make a stop at the Aswan High Dam, whose 1971 construction created the massive Lake Nasser. At around 10:30am, we'll take a boat to the island temple of Philae, center of the cult of the goddess Isis. Similar to the plight of Abu Simbel, this temple complex was moved in order to save it from the rising waters of Lake Nasser. Our discoveries include the Temple of Isis, with its courtyards flanked by granite lions and walls covered in ancient gods and goddesses; and Trajan’s Kiosk, with its 14 majestic stone pillars.

Lunch: At an iconic local restaurant in Aswan at around 1pm, featuring traditional Egyptian dishes.

Afternoon: At about 2:30pm, we’ll arrive in Aswan and check in to the historic Old Cataract Hotel, whose terrace provides views of Elephantine Island and the most dramatic Nile sunsets in all of Egypt. Constructed in 1899 by Thomas Cook for refined European travelers, the Old Cataract Hotel occupies one of the most breathtaking locations along a bend in the Nile, facing out over the sands of the Sahara beyond. Hotel guests have included Tsar Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, Howard Carter, among many others. Agatha Christie also set portions of her novel Death on the Nile at the elegant hotel, and scenes from the 1978 film of the same name were shot here. Visitors from the golden age of travel to the present day have praised this captivating Victorian palace perched on a granite shelf above the Nile. Rooms are air-conditioned and include satellite TV, Internet access, minibar, and private bath.

After some free time to explore the hotel and its magnificent grounds, we'll regroup around 7pm in the lobby of our hotel for one of the highlights of our Egypt adventure: a Home-Hosted Dinner with a local family. We'll break up into smaller groups of no more than five travelers and depart for the home or apartment of our host family, which will be located in a nearby suburb. The neighborhood we visit is primarily home to families who work at the Aswan Dam or local electricity facility. This is a unique opportunity to learn more about life and work in the region—so come hungry for your home-cooked meal, and bring plenty of questions for your welcoming hosts

Dinner: Around 7:30pm in the home of a local family. Learn about life in the historic city of Aswan from these residents, and watch as they prepare an authentic dinner. Our meal this evening will consist of typical regional dishes—like mahshi (eggplant and zucchini), moussaka (an eggplant, meat, and potato-based dish), and tahini salad (made from toasted, ground sesame)—and the family will sit down with us to savor it. We'll finish off our meal with a traditional dessert like basbousa, cake sweetened with a simple syrup, or knafah, filo pastry filled with cheese.

We’re afforded this special privilege by our small group size; by dining in groups of no more than 5, we’re given the chance to enter local homes and connect on a one-to-one level, and to even share a little with our hosts about who we are and what has brought us to Egypt. This will be a great opportunity to ask them about life in Aswan, any customs they practice, and more.

Evening: Free to relax, enjoy a drink at the hotel’s famous terrace, or perhaps just soak in the history of these legendary accommodations.

DAY 6 Explore Aswan's Spice Market Destination: Aswan Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Old Cataract Hotel or similar

Breakfast: Buffet-style at the hotel, beginning at 6am, featuring Egyptian and American options.

Morning: Enjoy some free time in Aswan this morning to explore independently.

Lunch: At a local restaurant around noon, featuring traditional Egyptian dishes.

Afternoon: During some free time this afternoon, you may want to explore the hotel and its magnificent grounds. Or you can shop for keepsakes such as papyrus art or perhaps a 14-carat gold cartouche with your name in hieroglyphics. We’ll gather together at about 6pm to enjoy a discovery walk through Aswan’s bustling spice market. We’ll hunt for bargains at a colorful bazaar of aromatic spices, Nubian craftsembroidered galabayas (traditional Egyptian garments), and more, before heading over to a local restaurant for dinner.

Dinner: At about 7pm, in a local restaurant in Aswan.

Evening: Free to enjoy individual pursuits for our last night in Aswan, or to begin packing for tomorrow’s drive to Abu Simbel.

DAY 7 Aswan • Travel to Abu Simbel Destination: Abu Simbel Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Seti Abu Simbel Hotel or similar

Breakfast: Served at the hotel beginning at 6am, with Egyptian and American options.

Morning: At about 7am, we’ll begin our overland transfer (approximately four hours) to Abu Simbel for an overnight stay. Upon arrival around 11am, we’ll spend about 2 hours exploring the ancient relics and structures for which the area is known. Unlike the throngs of day-trippers who rush their visit here, we get to witness the iconic temples seemingly carved into living rock both by day and at night. We’ll see this ancient wonder fully intact, with its huge guardian statues and elaborate depictions of famous battles on the inner walls of Ramses’ Temple. It has been said that this famed king was something of a narcissist—we’ll see ample evidence of that here in the sheer number of objects depicting him, including a mammoth statue in which his head appears to support the weight of the entire temple. The massive colossi of Ramses II were an expression of Egypt’s might and its dominance over the Nubian kingdom.

When Lake Nasser was created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, some 100,000 Nubians were displaced. Not only did the High Dam’s construction upend the lives of Nubians, but it appeared that the massive temples of Abu Simbel—hewn out of the solid cliff in the 13th century B.C.—were doomed to vanish beneath the rising waters of Lake Nasser. But the entire complex was cut into 1,036 blocks (weighing eleven tons each), and thanks to the labor of 25,000 workers over three years, was moved 200 feet up the cliffs and safely re-established above the new water level.

After exploring the area, we'll check in to our centrally located hotel around 1pm. Depending on where we stay, hotel amenities may include an outdoor pool and onsite restaurant. Each air-conditioned room may feature complimentary wireless Internet access, an in-room safe, and a private bath with hair dryer.

Lunch: At our hotel around 1pm, featuring a selection of Nubian specialties.

Afternoon: Following lunch, you’ll have free time to relax or venture out on your own. Perhaps after the long drive this morning you’d prefer to settle into the hotel and enjoy some tea—or you may wish to consult with your Trip Experience Leader for ideas. Then, at about 5:30pm, we’ll continue our discoveries with a short drive back to Abu Simbel, where we’ll gain an entirely new perspective of the site during an enchanting sound and light show. The illuminated temples and relics provide a dramatic lens through to which to experience the rich history and heritage before us.

Around 7:15pm, we’ll make the short drive back to our hotel.

Dinner: At about 7:30pm, at our hotel for a Nubian-style dinner.

Evening: Free to relax and enjoy the amenities of our hotel or return to our rooms to beginning packing for tomorrow’s transfer back to Aswan.

DAY 8 Return to Aswan • Begin Nile cruise Destination: Nile cruise Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Asiya river-yacht , Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yachts

Activity Note: Our cruise from south to north is against the wind, so our dahabeya will require the use of our motorized tender most of the time, which is situated about 120 feet away from our boat.

Breakfast: Served buffet-style at the hotel beginning at 6am.

Morning: At about 8am, we’ll transfer back toward Aswan to embark our private Nile river-yacht and begin one of the highlights of our Egypt adventure. To set your expectation for the days ahead, a word about our private 16-passenger dahabeya—your accommodations for the next five nights: This is not your typical large river ship, packed with travelers, chugging up and down the Nile (we’re content to let those big boats pass us by). Instead, you’ll experience a gentler, more gracious era in travel. As we glide quietly across the Nile’s timeless waters, guided by the gentle winds and whims of the currents, our small motorized tender is there to nudge us along when we require assistance.

The intimate size of our vessel also allows us to visit ancient temples at quiet times, and gives us access to the smaller islands and riverside villages that travelers on big river ships can only dream about. And at night, we’ll be far away from the bright lights and lines of the noisy tourist steamers. Quietly moored in secluded locales, we’ll spend peaceful evenings relaxing on deck, gazing out at the Nile to imagine a time when Cleopatra and Julius Caesar drifted past these very same waters aboard the Egyptian queen’s gilded barge. And with an attentive crew to provide personal service to our small group of just 16 travelers, you may feel a bit like a queen or a pharaoh yourself when we begin our romantic journey along the Nile at about 11am.

Lunch: Aboard our yacht, at around 12:30pm.

Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll cruise for approximately four hours, plenty of time to appreciate just how relaxing this form of Nile travel can be while taking in the vistas to either side of the river where life plays out along its banks unchanged for centuries. Our destination is Herbiab, a small island along the river's west bank, where we’ll take a pleasant village walk and watch the sun setting over the Nile before returning to our yacht for dinner and settling in to our cabins for the night.

Dinner: Aboard our yacht, at about 6:30pm.

Evening: You are free to relax on deck to admire the night sky or settle in to your cabin for the night.

DAY 9 Daraw livestock market • Explore Kom Ombo • Cruise to Fares Village Destination: Nile cruise Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Asiya river-yacht , Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yachts

Breakfast: Served buffet-style on our yacht, beginning at 7am.

Morning: We’ll set sail early this morning (about 5:30am), and enjoy the unfolding scenery during breakfast as we cruise for about two hours on our way to the village of Daraw, home to a bustling market where cows, goats, camels, and other livestock are traded. Because we are traveling in such a small group, we’ll hop aboard pick-up trucks, a more modern form of local transport, and head over to the market (during non-market days, we will visit some of the livestock barns). With herders urging their camels and goats along and Nubian men hawking their mint and Egyptian spinach as they squeeze through the crowds in their tuk-tuks, the scene can be dusty, colorful, and chaotic—and fun.

After returning to our yacht by about 10am, we’ll cruise for about an hour to Kom Ombo, a riverside town surrounded by sugar cane fields that is home to Egypt’s only double temple. Dramatically situated along a bend on the Nile, the beautiful Graeco-Roman Kom Ombo Temple features one side dedicated to the local crocodile god, Sobek (it is said that real crocodiles used to bask here). The other side honors the falcon god, Haroeris. The entire structure is unusual in that everything is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along the main axis: twin entrances, twin courts, and twin colonnades. Another unique feature of Kom Ombo is a series of engravings thought to be among the world’s first representations of medical and surgical instruments. We’ll return to our yacht at about 12:30am, and continue sailing.

Lunch: While cruising aboard our yacht, at around 1pm.

Afternoon: Our scenic Nile cruise brings us to the village of Fares at about 4pm, where we'll enjoy some island exploring, visit Fares’ traditional Egyptian village, and stop to see a local craftsman.

Dinner: At about 6:30pm, we’ll go ashore for a traditional Egyptian barbecue dinner on Fares Island (weather permitting), featuring assorted grilled meats and fresh local grains and vegetables.

Evening: You can relax with your fellow travelers on the island of Fares, or return to your cabin and retire for the night.

DAY 10 Gebel Silsila Temple and Quarries • A Day in the Life of Besaw Island • Education for girls in rural Egypt discussion Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Asiya river-yacht , Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yachts

Exclusive O.A.T. Activity: Today's activities feature our NEW A Day in the Life experience of Besaw Island, where we'll meet a local farmer and his family. Our discoveries will provide a window into this isolated agricultural community and help us understand their unique perspective and traditional livelihood. Read more about this activity below.

Breakfast: Served aboard our yacht beginning at 7am, with Egyptian and American options.

Morning: Picking up the anchor at about 5am, our yacht will have already set sail by the time we wake up. So during our breakfast, we can admire the palm trees, farmland, donkeys, and tranquil scenes of traditional Egyptian life as we slowly cruise farther south along the Nile. Then, around 8:30am, we’ll reach the narrowest stretch of the Nile, an area the ancient Egyptians called “Khenu,” or the place of rowing. Our destination is Gebel Silsila, a rocky gorge where high sandstone cliffs descend down to the water’s edge. Our small river-yacht will then come to a slow drift while we gaze out at the ancient quarries that provided the stones to build almost all of Egypt’s great monuments and temples, including Karnak, Luxor, Kom Ombo, and many others. It is estimated the amount of sandstone mined here during the pharaonic era is eight million tons. You can be among the few to explore this historic site, and learn about a recent archaeological discovery made here—a massive sacred temple used for four epochs of ancient Egyptian history. Our Trip Experience Leader will shed light on this historical finding for about 45 minutes, during which we can ask any questions we might have.

Around 9:30am, we'll resume sailing for about 1 hour and make our way to Besaw Island, where we’ll proceed to walk 15 minutes to begin our NEW A Day in the Life discoveries with local farmer, Sayed, and his family. Sayed’s ancestors moved to this island after the building of the Aswan High Dam. As irrigation became more regulated and agrarian reform took effect, Besaw transformed into a viable, agricultural haven, and land previously owned by the wealthy was redistributed among agricultural workers. This 500-strong island community primarily cultivates mangoes, bananas, dates and feed for their livestock. They are noticeably isolated from surrounding areas, as there are no bridges, no modern developments, and electricity only came to the island around 2010. Besaw is seemingly frozen in time, where the pace of life is much like the gentle breeze and long-established traditions are the beating heart of local culture.

Upon arrival at Sayed’s half-acre property around 10:45am, we’ll be greeted by his family and welcomed into their two-story, roughly 1,500 square feet mud-brick house. There, we’ll begin with a 30-minute conversation about education for girls living on the island. As we learned on Day 3, Egypt is quite split on the subject of women’s rights and the resistance to such progress is significantly greater in rural areas like Besaw. Many residents believe that learning to read and write is sufficient education for girls and that they should begin thinking about marriage in their teenage years. Furthermore, education can be a burden on families because children must travel to the mainland to attend school—meaning parents and elders lose out on the extra domestic help. However, as we get to know our host, we’ll come to find out that not all people here have such old world views on the subject. Sayed is an advocate for women’s rights and strives to support his daughters in pursuing education and whatever career they choose. In fact, one of his daughters hopes to become a doctor, a dream which Sayed fervently supports. We’ll also have the opportunity to ask any questions we might have about the issue—perhaps you’d like to know how forward-thinking residents like Sayed are working to change the minds of conservative neighbors, or you might wish to ask about local school curriculums.

Then, around 11:45am, we’ll stretch our legs with a 1-hour walk through the village crop fields. In summer time, we’ll stroll through dense rows of lush mango plants and banana palm trees—two of the most lucrative commodities grown here—and if we happen to visit in winter, we’ll see zucchini, tomatoes, lettuce, okra, parsley, and other types of produce. We’ll also have the chance to observe some of the livestock, such as water buffaloes, cows, sheep, and various poultry. All of this life is sustained, of course, by strategic irrigation methods, which we’ll learn about and even have a chance to try our hand at throughout our walk. Depending on the time of year, we may also have the opportunity to seed the land or harvest some of the crops.

Around 12:30pm, we’ll walk about 15 minutes back to Sayed’s house, where we’ll have a chance to prepare the table for lunch.

Lunch: Around 12:45pm in Sayed’s home on Besaw Island, featuring traditional dishes like orzo chicken soup, sun-baked bread, fried chicken, or beef stew, followed by a semolina-based dessert.

Afternoon: At about 2pm, we’ll walk 15 minutes back to our river-yacht. We'll set sail to Fawaza this afternoon and you can continue to enjoy scenic views of the Egyptian countryside.

Dinner: At about 7pm, we’ll enjoy dinner onboard in the ship's dining room.

Evening: Following dinner, you have the remainder of the night free for our own discoveries.

DAY 11 Cruise to Edfu • Discover Edfu Temple Destination: Nile cruise Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Asiya river-yacht , Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yachts

Morning: At about 7am, we set our course for Edfu. During our scenic two-hour cruise, you can join our Trip Experience Leader for a discussion on pharaonic life, cast a fishing line into the Nile’s placid waters, or even try your hand at senet, an ancient Egyptian board game that was a favorite pastime of Tutankhamen. There are many onboard activities that you can enjoy, and you may find a deep sense of camaraderie developing aboard ship with such a small group size.

At about 9:30am, we’ll arrive at Edfu, a town on the west bank of the Nile that is home to the best-preserved cult temple in Egypt. Stepping off our yacht, we’ll then take a horse and buggy ride out to the Temple of Horus. Built between 237 and 57 BC, ancient Egyptians believed that the temple was inhabited by the falcon-headed god, Horus, their divine protector. Annual coronation festivals were held to re-crown Horus, during which a falcon was released in his honor. After exploring the remarkable hieroglyphs and bas-reliefs of Egypt’s second largest temple, we’ll enjoy a discovery walk along the bustling streets of Edfu before returning to our yacht.

Lunch: Aboard our yacht, at about 1pm.

Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue cruising for about 1.5 hours until we reach Besilia, a quiet little village farther down along the Nile’s west bank.

Dinner: Aboard our yacht, at about 6pm.

Evening: Relax onboard or retire to your cabin.

DAY 12 Cruise to Esna • Visit Esna & Temple of Khnum Destination: Nile cruise Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Asiya river-yacht , Aida, Amunet, or Aton river-yachts

Morning: At about 7am, we’ll cruise for about two hours until we reach Hegz, a small village on the Nile’s east bank, where we’ll take a pleasant village walk before returning to our yacht and setting off again for four more hours of cruising.

Afternoon: At about 2:45pm, we’ll arrive in Esna, a town on the Nile’s west bank. An important stop on the camel-caravan route for centuries, Esna is also home to a famous Graeco-Roman structure, the Temple of Khnum, which we’ll visit upon our arrival. The remainder of the afternoon is at leisure to explore Esna on your own.

Dinner: Enjoy our final dinner aboard our yacht at about 6pm, which is moored in Esna next to other dahabeyas.

Evening: Relax onboard with your fellow travelers or retire to your cabin t begin packing for tomorrow’s drive to Luxor.

DAY 13 Disembark yacht • Explore Luxor and Karnak Temples Destination: Luxor Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Winter Palace Hotel or similar

Morning: At about 8am, we’ll bid farewell to our captain and crew and drive for about 1.5 hours to Luxor. Modern-day Luxor grew out of the ruins of ancient Thebes, one-time capital of Egypt’s New Kingdom. And we’ll begin to grasp the scope and grandeur of the monuments and temples along both banks of the Nile at this special locale—Luxor Temple and the Temple of Karnak on the East bank, and the remote Valleys of the Kings and Queens on the West bank.

Our explorations in Luxor begin at the Temple of Karnak. With its massive gate built by Ptolemy III, Karnak is one of the most important ancient sites in all of Egypt. Ancient Egyptians, who believed that their chief deity Amun-Re first created himself and then everything else, called Karnak Ipet-Isut, “the most perfect of places.” And perfection was eventually attained at Karnak, which was built over the course of 1,300 years by successive kings and queens, who each added their own tributes to Amun-Re, replacing or expanding existing monuments in ever more grand styles. After exploring the dizzying array of temple courts, halls, and pylons of this city-sized complex, we’ll check in to our historic hotel, which is situated along the Nile River amid luxuriant tropical gardens and ancient temples. You can unpack and settle in to your air-conditioned room, which should include a satellite TV, safe, minibar, and private bath with hair dryer, before regrouping in the lobby at around noon.

Lunch: At a local restaurant in Luxor, at about 12:30pm.

Afternoon: At about 4:30pm, we’ll explore Luxor Temple, a center of power of Egypt’s mighty pharaohs for almost 1,500 years. The temple complex was largely built by Amenhotep III and Ramses II, the greatest most celebrated pharaoh of the New Kingdom (his reign lasted some 66 years, up until his death at age 91). Many other pharaohs and rulers added to the temple over the centuries. Tutankhamen even contributed some—the only mark left by the boy king who is far more famous for being dead than alive. After exploring the series of statues, halls, columns, and pillars at Luxor Temple, we can turn our gaze to the incredible avenue of sphinxes that begin here and stretch for more than a mile into the distance, all the way to Karnak.

Later, we’ll walk over to Luxor’s local market, where we can explore the jewelry and leather shops or sit down at a café to sip mint tea or enjoy a cup of strong Egyptian coffee.

Dinner: At a local restaurant in Luxor at about 6:30pm, featuring traditional Egyptian cuisine.

Evening: The rest of your evening is free to relax at the hotel, or perhaps to head over to the Luxor market, which is about a half of a mile from our hotel.

DAY 14 Optional hot-air balloon ride • Valley of the Kings Destination: Luxor Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Winter Palace Hotel or similar

Activity Note: Travelers taking the hot-air balloon ride Optional Tour will depart the hotel at 5:30am. Those not participating in the balloon ride will depart the hotel at 8am, cross over to the west bank to meet up with the early risers, and proceed together to the Valley of the Kings.

Breakfast: Served buffet-style at the hotel beginning at 6am, with Egyptian and American options.

Morning: At about 8am, we’ll depart the hotel, crossing to the west bank of the Nile by motorboat, and then journeying by coach to the Valley of the Kings, about an hour’s drive away. Or, you may elect to rise extra early for an optional balloon ride over the west bank to witness a glorious Egyptian sunrise over the Nile. The Valley of the Kings, situated in a secluded locale in the Theban Hills, is where the great pharaohs were buried in rock-cut tombs and surrounded by all the treasures they would need in the afterlife. Almost all of the sacred burial chambers were plundered over the millennia—with the exception of an obscure young ruler whose reign lasted a mere decade. On the afternoon of November 26, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter made a small hole in a sealed doorway, inserted a candle, and peered inside. He later wrote about what he saw: “As my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold—everywhere the glint of gold.” When his patron, Lord Carnarvon, asked if he could see anything, Carter replied, “Yes, wonderful things.” Completely untouched, Tutankhamen’s burial chambers contained thousands of priceless objects, along with a gold coffin containing the mummy of the teenage king.

Upon arrival in the Valley of the Kings at around 9am, we’ll set off on a walking tour, which includes a visit to the tomb of this young pharaoh, followed by a visit to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, built for Egypt’s first known female monarch. Ruling for 20 years in the 15th century B.C., Hatshepsut is also considered one of Egypt's most successful pharaohs.

At approximately 12:30pm, we’ll walk 15 minutes to a local restaurant for lunch.

Lunch: At around 12:45pm, we'll enjoy lunch at local restaurant specializing in traditional tagine dishes (casseroles cooked in earthenware pots) in the fields surrounding the Valley of the Kings.

Afternoon: Following lunch, we'll cross back over the Nile by motorboat, and arrive back at our hotel, where you'll have the balance of the afternoon free—an ideal opportunity to explore our historic hotel's many links to Carter’s great discovery.

Dinner: At about 6pm, we’ll enjoy a festive Farewell Dinner at our hotel's restaurant. This is a great time to celebrate our Egypt discoveries with the entire group while dining on the traditional Egyptian fare that we’ve come to know during our adventure.

Evening: Your final night in Luxor is free to explore on your own.

Hot Air Balloon Ride - $110/person

Rise early for a hot air balloon ride and view the splendor of the Nile’s West Bank and Valley of the Kings with a new sense of wonder. See ancient Luxor from a unique angle as you drift over temples, ancient sites, and sacred ruins (depending on wind direction)—and also over vast sugar cane fields and villages waking up in the early morning sun. Please note: This optional tour is weather permitting.

DAY 15 Fly to Cairo • Explore Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan and Al Rifa'i Mosque Destination: Cairo Meals included: B L D Accommodations: Cairo Marriott Hotel or similar

Breakfast: Buffet-style at the hotel beginning at 7am, featuring Egyptian and American options.

Morning: At about 8am, we’ll transfer to the airport for our 1.5-hour flight north to Cairo (flight time is subject to change).

Lunch: At around noon, we'll have a boxed lunch on our bus while we drive into the city to explore two of Cairo's most famous mosques.

Afternoon: At about 1:30pm, we'll visit the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan and its historic counterpart, the Al Rifa'i Mosque. Standing side by side, the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan was constructed during the mid-14th century and is one of the largest mosques in the world. The massive Al Rifa'i Mosque, completed in 1912, was built to showcase the modernization of Egypt's capital while embracing the glory years of its Islamic history and features many Mamluk architectural influences. As the burial place of a number of Egyptian royal family members, the Al Rifa'i Mosque is also known as the Royal Mosque.

We’ll check in to our Cairo hotel by about 4:15pm, and then have some free time for our last day in Egypt—perhaps to witness the panoramic views of the city from atop Cairo Tower or to do some last-minute shopping before returning home.

Dinner: At about 6:30pm, we’ll have dinner at our hotel's restaurant.

Evening: Free to relax at the hotel to compare Egypt memories with your fellow travelers or begin packing for tomorrow’s return flights home.

DAY 16 Return to U.S. or begin trip extension Meals included: B Breakfast: Served buffet-style at the hotel, beginning at 7am.

Morning: Depending on your flight time, transfers to the Cairo airport will begin at about 7am for your return flight back to the U.S., or begin your post-trip extension Alexandria's Glorious Past. Travelers staying later in Cairo after the main adventure will remain at the hotel, or transfer to another hotel in Cairo.

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Egypt has received a second payment of $14 billion from the UAE to develop the coastal city of Ras Al Hekma , the Egyptian cabinet said on Wednesday.

The allocation is the second tranche of the $35 billion deal signed in February with a consortium led by Abu Dhabi's investment holding firm ADQ.

Egypt has also initiated consultation with the Emirates over a $6 billion UAE deposit held in the Egyptian central bank, to convert its value into Egyptian pounds, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said.

The cabinet said in February that the UAE and the Egyptian central bank were working to convert UAE deposits worth $11 billion into Egyptian pounds.

In February, ADQ said it would acquire the development rights for Ras Al Hekma, a coastal region about 350km north-west of Cairo.

Spanning more than 170 million square metres, the development is expected to attract more foreign direct investment, boost trade, create new jobs and support Egypt’s private sector.

It will include hotels, yacht marinas, entertainment centres, as well as residential, commercial and recreational spaces with global connectivity.

The Egyptian government will retain a 35 per cent stake in the development and the work is expected to start next year.

It is expected to attract as much as $150 billion in investments, Mr Madbouly said in February.

The investment from the UAE is a key step towards establishing the location as a leading Mediterranean holiday destination, financial centre and free zone.

In the past few years, the UAE has intensified its investment in Egypt to help bolster the country's economy and capitalise on the investment potential.

In April 2021, ADQ acquired Egypt’s Amoun Pharmaceutical Company from Canada's Bausch Health for $470 million.

In December of the same year, ADQ opened an office in Cairo, and over the past few years has bought stakes in publicly-listed Egyptian companies across key sectors, from FinTech to logistics.

Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation is struggling with shortages of foreign currency and high inflation. The recent infusion of cash could help the country to ease currency pressures.

In March, Egypt also finalised a deal with the International Monetary Fund to receive $8 billion in loans.

It came after the Central Bank of Egypt increased interest rates and allowed the local currency to freely float with no interventions from the state.

The flotation, which was in discussions for months, was a key condition from the IMF to approve Egypt’s loan.

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The latest news on inflation has been pretty good. It has also been extremely weird. And that weirdness is, in a way, the message.

With underlying inflation fairly low but probably still above the Fed’s 2 percent target and people still worried that it might go back up, quirky measurement issues can lead to big mood swings that are quickly reversed when the next numbers come in — or sometimes even a few hours after the initial announcement, once knowledgeable people have had some time to dig into the details.

There were two big official inflation reports in the past couple of days: the Producer Price Index (what we used to call wholesale prices) on Tuesday and the Consumer Price Index on Wednesday morning . There was also a private survey from the National Federation of Independent Business that may add some clarity.

So what do I mean by “weirdness”? On Tuesday I was busy most of the day with plumbers and dentists, so I was able to check in on events and commentary only once in a while. But this enforced limitation on the information flow might actually have given me more perspective. The first thing I saw was a hot P.P.I., with inflation coming in well above expectations. There was much wailing and rending of garments. Then, as the analysts I follow had time to parse the details, they started to declare that this was actually a good report.

Financial markets seemed to agree. One quick and dirty way to judge how markets view inflation data is to look at the yield on two-year U.S. Treasuries, which largely reflects what people think the Fed is going to do. If inflation looks hot, they expect the Fed to keep rates high and maybe even increase them; if it looks cool, they expect the opposite.

And if you look at two-year yields over the past few days, you see the market reaction matching my sense of the commentary:

Yields spiked when the P.P.I. report was released, then fell back once there was time to dig into the numbers, ending the day lower than they started.

On the other hand, markets from the get-go liked the C.P.I., which seemed to show inflation resuming its downward trend, with yields falling sharply. But as I write, analysts are still digging into the details. Will they be less optimistic by evening? Probably not: Early commentary seems, if anything, to be saying that the numbers were even better than they first appeared. But after yesterday, I’m going to wait and see.

I also mentioned the survey from the N.F.I.B., which represents small and medium businesses. One question it asks is whether businesses are planning to raise or lower prices over the next three months; the percentage difference from current numbers is often a useful indicator of inflation trends. And that spread is currently close to what it was before the pandemic, although slightly higher:

So my best guess? The acceleration in measured inflation over the past few months was probably a statistical illusion; inflation wasn’t as low as it seemed in late 2023 but probably hasn’t risen much, if at all. Underlying annual inflation is probably around 2.5 percent, maybe even less. So my guess is that we’ve already won this war — that we have basically achieved a soft landing, with low unemployment and acceptably low inflation.

But I could be wrong, and even if I’m right, it’s going to take at least a few more months of good inflation news before this happy reality sinks in.

Frank Bruni

Contributing Opinion Writer

Biden’s Daring Debate Proposal Could Recharge His Campaign

I’ve been waiting and hoping — no, I’ve been desperate — for President Biden to do two things. One, boldly project strength. Two, recognize that he cannot coast to re-election and that he needs to shake up the state of the presidential race.

With his offer on Wednesday to debate Donald Trump at least twice before the election and as early as next month, he has done just that.

The Biden campaign’s proposal came with the condition that the debates be in a television studio and there be no audience present to hoot, holler and otherwise interrupt. Trump subsequently indicated that he was onboard, though it wasn’t clear if he would agree to Biden’s terms.

By emphasizing debates and suggesting that they start soon, Biden is taking a risk. But it’s a necessary one. Trump and his supporters lean hard on the charge that Biden is too rickety — in terms of both energy and intellect — to face off against Trump, and they have sold that idea skillfully and mercilessly, with the help of right-wing news organizations that portray Biden as a doddering wreck. It’s selective and often malicious stuff, but that doesn’t mean that Biden can ignore it. He must refute it. Signaling an eagerness to debate is the crucial first step.

The next one is performing well in those debates, should they happen, and that’s where the risk comes in. Some Democrats who’ve spent time with Biden over the past year privately express concerns about his sharpness and stamina, and a debate is less scripted — and arguably more draining — than a State of the Union speech read from a teleprompter. But a reluctance or refusal to debate could be as damaging to Biden as half a dozen terrible moments at the lectern.

Besides which, Trump could have scores of such moments, to go by his bizarro stump speeches of late. That’s where the rewards that Biden could reap come in. Do I think that he will turn in debate performances for the ages? No. Do I think that Trump will have a harder time insisting on Biden’s wobbliness if he has demonstrated his own profound unsteadiness on the same stage where Biden is standing, with plenty of swing voters watching? Yes.

I also think that it’s past time for Biden to pivot from caution to daring. Maybe that pivot is finally here.

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Serge Schmemann

Editorial Board Member

Putin’s Defense Shake-Up Is a Danger for Ukraine

With Vladimir Putin’s revival of Soviet-style centralized and secretive rule, the old art of Kremlinology is making a comeback. It’s not quite the same as when the lineup atop Lenin’s mausoleum on May Day was scrutinized for signs of who was on the way up or down, but Putin’s abrupt replacement of the long-serving Sergei Shoigu as defense minister last Sunday was still a distinct blast from that dismal past.

Technically, Shoigu was kicked upstairs, to head up the national security council. Putin is not given to publicly punishing loyal courtiers, and Shoigu was about as loyal as they come, even going fishing and hunting with the boss. Still, Kremlin-watchers have long expected his ouster, given the sloppiness of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the widespread corruption in the military-industrial complex, and Shoigu’s reported unpopularity with the generals. There was also the dramatic rebellion of the mercenary commander Yevgeny Prigozhin, who marched on Moscow last June demanding Shoigu’s head (only to lose his own in a plane crash broadly presumed to have been an assassination).

So, very briefly, here are the questions and speculation now keeping Kremlinologists busy:

Shoigu’s replacement at the Defense Ministry is Andrei Belousov, a senior Kremlin economist. That he is not a military man is not surprising; neither was Shoigu, a former construction foreman, nor his two predecessors. Military matters are handled by the generals of the General Staff; the defense minister looks after the military-industrial base. The thinking is that Belousov’s task will be to manage the rapid growth in Russia’s military spending and to clean up the corruption that is siphoning off huge amounts of the money earmarked for the Ukraine war.

How long Shoigu will be allowed to survive remains an open question. One of his top deputies, Timur Ivanov, was arrested on bribery charges in April. One of Ivanov’s nicknames was “Shoigu’s wallet.” And on Tuesday morning, government investigators announced that a senior general on the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov, had been detained on suspicion of “large-scale” bribe-taking.

A big question is what happens to Nikolai Patrushev, who is being displaced by Shoigu at the helm of the Russian security council. Patrushev, like Putin a former K.G.B. official, is among the oldest and closest members of Putin’s ruling clique, and among the most hawkish. Where he lands — or fails to land — will say a lot about where Putin is headed.

On balance, the musical chairs point to a major overhaul of the military as Russia moves toward what is basically a war economy. Russia is making incremental but steady advances in Ukraine, albeit at an astounding cost in casualties and armaments. Putin’s plan is to press on at any cost, squeezing Ukraine and its ever more reluctant Western backers, and keeping China on board as a major supplier. None of that bodes well for Ukraine.

Jonathan Alter

Where’s the Devastating Takedown of Michael Cohen That Trump Needs?

For months, we’ve known that the cross-examination of Michael Cohen would be the decisive moment of Donald Trump’s New York felony trial — the day we learned whether his defense team could plant reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors.

On Tuesday it became clear that the team was struggling with its most important task.

Todd Blanche, Trump’s lead defense lawyer, was like a baseball pitcher assigned to start Game 7 of the World Series after only two or three wins in his major-league career. Though a seasoned former federal prosecutor, he has little experience as a defense attorney — and it showed.

We’re only about a third of the way through Blanche’s cross, but so far, he’s too meandering and pleasant for the sharp-toned, rat-a-tat style necessary for the role.

Blanche spent more than an hour showing that Cohen, like Stormy Daniels last week, despises Trump, and this line of inquiry was entertaining if not informative. When he quoted Cohen calling Trump a “boorish cartoon misogynist,” Cohen wielded the same mild and effective rejoinder he used twice earlier: “Sounds like something I would say.” My kids would like to see me in that T-shirt.

Blanche spent a long time depicting Cohen as a publicity hound cashing in on his decision to flip on Trump. Guilty as charged. But Cohen’s unwise decision to make sport of Trump in an orange jumpsuit (and worse) earlier in the trial, while angering both the prosecution and defense, doesn’t relate to the falsification of business records at issue in the case. And Cohen made it clear that he was merely responding in kind to Trump’s childish posts, a few of which jurors have seen more than once. All told, an annoying waste of the jury’s time.

Blanche had trouble finding a rhythm. For instance, he asked Cohen if he had appeared on MSNBC shows anchored by Ali Velshi and Joy Reid. When Cohen said yes, Blanche had no follow-up.

But his real problem is that he has so little to work with. Cohen delivered devastating direct testimony all day Monday and again Tuesday morning, and he has been careful and low-key on cross.

Instead of attacking the prosecution’s case head-on, Blanche has been handcuffed by a client nursing a perverse desire to see Cohen’s insults — and his own — aired in open court.

At around 4 p.m. Tuesday, shortly before court adjourned for the day, Blanche began delving into why other prosecutors have passed on this case. That could be promising for him. But after all the runs the prosecution has already scored, he’ll have to strike Cohen out with the bases loaded to get back into the game.

Michelle Goldberg

Top Republicans Come Face to Face With Trump’s Seamy Past

On a day when Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, testified about the price of loyalty to Trump, a group of Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota and Vivek Ramaswamy, a former presidential candidate, showed up at the courthouse to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump.

Sitting in the courtroom on Tuesday on my first day at the trial, I kept wondering what they were thinking as they heard Cohen, seeming every bit the weary, reluctantly reformed TV gangster, testify about his mafia-like interactions with Trumpworld.

He described how, after his home and office were raided by the F.B.I., Trump encouraged him, both through a “really sketchy” lawyer and through his own Twitter posts, to, in Cohen’s words, “Stay in the fold, stay loyal, don’t flip.” He described how once he decided “not to lie for President Trump any longer,” the then-president publicly attacked him.

Cohen now seems like a man whose life has been essentially wrecked — he went to prison, lost his law license, had to sell his New York and Chicago taxi medallions and is still on supervised release. Though his implosion has been particularly severe, he is far from alone; many people who’ve served Trump, no matter how faithfully, have been ruined in various ways by the experience.

Nevertheless, as Trump runs for re-election, Republicans are climbing over one another to get as close to him as possible. Toward the end of his testimony for the prosecution, Cohen was asked about his regrets.

“To keep the loyalty and to do things that he had asked me to do, I violated my moral compass, and I suffered the penalty,” he said. I’d like to know if Johnson, hearing this, had even a flicker of foreboding.

The Increase in Drowning Deaths Should Be a National Priority

Drowning deaths in the United States rose by more than 12 percent to an estimated 4,500 per year during the pandemic, according to grim new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The increase, from 4,000 per year in 2019, comes as this long-neglected public health crisis is slowly beginning to draw some attention from government policymakers.

“It’s moving in the wrong direction,” the C.D.C. director, Dr. Mandy Cohen, told The Times. The agency said more than half of Americans had never taken a swimming lesson.

The sobering data is an opportunity for President Biden and health officials to finally make drowning prevention a national priority.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4 in the United States and the second leading cause of death by accidental injury for children 5 to 14. Tackling the issue has clear bipartisan appeal and would improve quality of life in every American community.

Despite the obvious need for action, federal, state and local governments in the United States have invested very little to prevent these deaths.

The rise in deaths has caught the eye of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose philanthropy told The Times this week it plans for the first time to direct millions of dollars to drowning prevention efforts within the United States to improve data collection and help fund swimming lessons in 10 states where drowning rates are highest: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.

The planned $17.6 million investment by Bloomberg Philanthropies is modest compared with the $104 million it is spending globally on preventing drownings. But the focus by Bloomberg, whose prominent public health campaigns helped ban smoking in bars and restaurants in New York, could help raise the profile of this issue. Executives at the philanthropy said they planned to work with the C.D.C.

Many Americans of even wealthy backgrounds have lost children to drowning. But drowning is also an issue of equity. Black people and Native Americans are at substantially increased risk of drowning. So are teenage boys. The C.D.C. report found that these trends have continued. In 2020, they said, Black Americans saw the greatest increase in fatal drownings.

Red Cross surveys suggest that a majority of Americans lack basic swimming abilities. With C.D.C. data showing the existence of more than 10 million private pools in the United States and fewer than 309,000 public ones, it’s clear that large numbers of Americans lack access to basic information about water safety, as well as safe places to learn to swim. Instead of a public health issue, drowning is treated as a private matter and swimming as a luxury. To save lives, this needs to change.

David Brooks

Why Trump Is Ahead in So Many Swing States

What do American voters want? The latest New York Times/Siena polls of swing states offer some confusing evidence on this point. Some of the polling results suggest that Americans are in a revolutionary frame of mind: Asked whether the political and economic systems need major changes, 69 percent of respondents said those systems need major changes or should be entirely torn down.

On the other hand, when the pollsters gave voters a choice between a candidate who would bring the country back to normal and one who would bring major changes, 51 percent said they would prefer the back-to-normal candidate and only 40 percent would prefer the major-changes candidate.

So which is it? Is 2024 a change election in which people want someone who will shake things up, or is this a stability election in which people are going to vote for the candidate of order over the candidate of chaos?

Well, different voters want different things. But if I had to write a single sentence that reconciled these diverse findings, it would be this: The people who run America’s systems have led the country seriously astray; we need a president who will shake things up and lead the country back to normal.

When they hear “systems,” I assume voters are thinking of the network of institutions run by America’s elite — corporations, governing agencies, higher education, the news media and so on. If voters believe one thing about Donald Trump it’s that he’s against these systems and these systems are against him.

Voters clearly see President Biden implicated in these systems. The heart of his problem heaves into view when people are asked which candidate will bring about change. Seventy percent of voters said that Trump would bring about major changes or tear down the system entirely if elected. And 71 percent of voters said that little or nothing would change if Biden was re-elected.

In other words, the evidence suggests that the swing voter wants reactionary change, not revolutionary change. The mood suggested by the evidence is angry nostalgia. That would be my explanation for why Trump is so convincingly ahead in most of the swing states.

Trump Told Cohen Disclosure of His Fling Would Be a ‘Total Disaster’

When Michael Cohen took the stand for the first time in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial on Monday morning, he almost accidentally sat down without taking the oath. But after he raised his hand and swore to tell the truth, he seemed to do so.

In dry language, with his impulse-control problems nowhere in sight, he landed blow after blow on the former president.

Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is willing to look like a stooge — pathetically eager for any praise from the boss — to implant in jurors’ minds that even in the absence of incriminating emails, he should be believed because of all the time he spent looking for Brownie points from Trump. When he did so, he was implicating Trump.

Cohen’s testimony about the Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had a nine-month affair with Trump, is important beyond Trump describing her to Cohen as “beautiful.” It cemented Trump’s attention to detail, which we’ve heard a lot about already. He constantly asked for updates on the hush money that American Media Inc., publisher of The National Enquirer, was paying at his direction to McDougal, replying, “Great!” or “Fantastic,” when Cohen delivered them.

Cohen’s tape of Trump discussing that deal landed hard when it was played, and not just because it was Trump’s voice talking about “150” — a clear reference to the $150,000 in hush money that Trump — through Cohen and A.M.I. — was originally going to pay McDougal. Trump’s micromanaging, which we’ve heard about for two weeks, came to life in a way that didn’t help him. And when Cohen dissected practically every moment of the call, there was no mistaking the meaning of the brief conversation.

When Cohen told Trump that Stormy Daniels was shopping her story, “Trump was really angry with me,” he said. Trump told Cohen: “‘I thought you had this under control, I thought you took care of this! … Just take care of it!’”

According to Cohen, Trump thought he would surely lose the 2016 election if the Daniels story came out. He testified that Trump said, “This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women will hate me,” and added that “guys, they think it’s cool” to have sex with a porn star, “but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign.” In combination with the fallout from the “Access Hollywood” tapes, they agreed, it would send his already low polling with women into a tailspin.

“Get control of it!” Trump barked, Cohen testified. “Just get past the election. If I win, it’ll have no relevance when I’m president. And if I lose, I don’t really care.”

Here the prosecutor, Susan Hoffinger, asked if Cohen inquired about Melania Trump. He said yes, and said Trump responded: “Don’t worry. How long do you think I’ll be on the market for? Not long.”

Wow. With Trump, every time you think he’s touched bottom, he crashes through the floor. Here he was already looking ahead to his third divorce.

Cohen is doing very well on direct examination. The test will come Tuesday afternoon, when cross-examination is likely to begin.

Farah Stockman

Israel Needs to Allow More Aid Crossings to Keep Gazans Alive

An already unbearable situation in Gaza is getting far worse, as hundreds of thousands of desperate Palestinian families flee an Israeli ground operation in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Aid groups say the so-called humanitarian zone near the sea, where people are being told to move, doesn’t have enough shelter, food, water or sanitation to support the people who are already there. Without a significant infusion of new aid, this place is at risk of total famine and social chaos.

One glimmer of good news came on Sunday, when Israel opened the Western Erez crossing in northern Gaza. But virtually no aid has got through to southern Gaza for nearly a week, aid groups say. The reality is that the Gaza Strip needs many, many more crossings.

“If you have only one entry point in, then it becomes extremely valuable, and every adverse actor can disrupt it for their own gain,” Dave Harden, a former U.S.A.I.D. mission director in the West Bank and Gaza, told me.

If there were a dozen access points, spread across every two or three kilometers, then no single crossing would become a choke point, vulnerable to attack. He said there’s no reason that Israel, which controls the security envelope around Gaza, could not open far more checkpoints.

“People complain that Hamas is stealing aid, but there would be no incentive to steal if there was enough food going in,” said Harden, adding that he shared a plan to open more than half a dozen more border crossings in Gaza with a branch of the Israeli military about six weeks ago.

But since then, the opposite has occurred. The main artery for humanitarian aid, Kerem Shalom, was shut down on May 5 after a Hamas rocket attack killed four Israeli soldiers. Then Israel seized the border crossing at Rafah , gaining full control over the vital entry and exit point for people and goods for the first time since 2005. Israeli officials have blamed Egypt for the halt in humanitarian goods through Rafah since last week. But for months aid groups have cited the onerous inspections of aid convoys, Israeli attacks on aid workers and protests by right-wing Israeli settlers who have destroyed or delayed truckloads of aid as the cause of famine in Gaza.

“The situation is absolutely desperate,” Sean Carroll, who leads Anera, an American aid organization that has operated in Gaza for decades, wrote in an email on Monday. His staff members have been forced to evacuate Rafah at a moment’s notice, just like the rest of the population, and were forced to leave vital supplies in a warehouse behind.

“They are trying to keep delivering but there’s not much to deliver,” he told me.

Believe It, Democrats. Biden Could Lose.

Donald Trump may be the presidential candidate whose midday snoozing has generated headlines and animated late-night comics, but President Biden is the one who needs to wake up.

He’s a whopping 12 points behind Trump among registered voters in Nevada, according to polls by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer that were released on Monday morning. Biden won that state by nearly 2.5 points in 2020. He’s behind among registered voters in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan — in all of the six battleground states surveyed except Wisconsin. That’s not some wildly aberrant result. It echoes alarms sounded before. It speaks to stubborn troubles.

And it’s difficult for Democrats to believe. I know: I talk regularly with party leaders and party strategists and I’ve heard their incredulity. They mention abortion and how that should help Biden mightily. They mention the miserable optics of a certain Manhattan courtroom and a certain slouched defendant. They mention Jan. 6, 2021. They note Trump’s unhinged rants and autocratic musings and they say that surely, when the moment of decision arrives, a crucial share of Americans will note all of that, too, and come home to Biden.

From their lips to God’s ear. But with stakes this huge, I can’t help worrying that such hopefulness verges on magical thinking and is midwife to a confidence, even a complacency, that Biden cannot afford. He needs to step things up — to defend his record more vigorously, make the case for his second term more concretely, project more strength and more effectively communicate the most important difference between him and his opponent: Biden genuinely loves America, while Trump genuinely loves only himself.

The new polling shows that Democratic senators up for re-election are doing better than Biden , so his party affiliation isn’t his doom. That’s the lesson, too, of the favor enjoyed by Democratic governors in red and purple states . Look, for prime example, at Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania .

But Biden seems to get the blame for the war in Gaza. For the high cost of living, too. Regarding the economy, he has a story to tell — infrastructure investment, the CHIPS Act, low unemployment — and must tell it better, with an eye not on his liberal base, but on the minorities and young people who are drifting away from him. That’s the moral of the latest numbers: Take no voter for granted. And there’s not a second to waste.

Patrick Healy

Deputy Opinion Editor

Will Michael Cohen Throw Cold Water on Trump’s Polling Lead?

Every Monday morning on The Point, we kick off the week with a tipsheet on the latest in the presidential campaign. Here’s what we’re looking at this week:

The next two weeks are critical for Donald Trump. He is leading President Biden in most polls in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and other swing states that will decide the 2024 election. But on Monday, the star witness in Trump’s criminal trial — Michael Cohen, his former lawyer — will begin telling a Manhattan jury that he gave $130,000 to the porn star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter with Trump. And based on the pace of the trial, the case could go to the jury as soon as next week.

Cohen is the linchpin to any conviction, acquittal or hung jury for Trump. More than any other witness in the case, he will put words in Trump’s mouth for jurors — telling them how the former president directed the payment to Daniels. Expect the cross-examination to be withering, but in the end, Trump’s lawyers may be hard-pressed to contain or thwart the damaging Cohen testimony without strong witnesses who can rebut it.

The trial matters because some voters say a conviction could change their thinking about Trump — a man who for years has shaken off scandals like Teflon. Failure to convict, in turn, could boost the martyr message that he’s been campaigning on at rallies like his big one in New Jersey on Saturday.

I just did a focus group with Trump voters from 2020 about how they see him now, which will be published on Tuesday. Most of these voters want to support him again because they think the economy will do better under him. But these voters volunteered how much they dislike Trump’s chaotic and inappropriate behavior, and several of them are looking at R.F.K. Jr. as a third-party candidate. What happens in the trial could steer some of these Trump voters away from him.

Biden had a successful fund-raising weekend on the West Coast, but it’s Israel’s military actions in Gaza and the cease-fire talks that will loom over both his week and the biggest event on his schedule: his commencement address at Morehouse College next Sunday. Many voters are unhappy with Biden’s approach to Gaza and general handling of the war, and he came in for some criticism over his latest move on U.S. weapons to Israel.

This isn’t an easy time for Mr. Biden to set foot on a college campus, but he’s been an admired figure at many historically Black colleges like Morehouse — and he and his campaign need to improve his standing with both Black voters and Georgia voters, where he is lagging Trump in polls. No single event will turn it around for Biden, but I think this will be one of his highest-stakes speeches of the spring.

The Table Is Set for Michael Cohen to Testify Against Trump

For months, we’ve heard that the prosecution’s entire case in Donald Trump’s New York felony trial boils down to one man: Michael Cohen.

It turns out that it doesn’t — as long as Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, behaves himself on the witness stand beginning early next week.

For three weeks, I’ve sat in the courtroom and watched prosecutors carefully set the table for the feast of Cohen’s testimony against his longtime boss. Knowing that Cohen is a disreputable witness, they’ll basically argue that you don’t have to like the chef to swallow the food he serves.

The arc of the prosecution’s narrative has taken the jury from the “catch and kill” scheme (a coherent prelude to the crime) to the validation of highly incriminating records to the debunking of arguments for the defense. It all adds up to an effective precorroboration of Cohen’s likely testimony.

Stormy Daniels had no connection to the falsification of business records, the fundamental charge against Donald Trump. But by establishing that she did, indeed, have sex with Trump, her testimony provided important proof of motive. It’s increasingly clear to the jury that Trump coughed up the hush money to save his 2016 campaign after it was sent reeling by the “Access Hollywood” tape. He knew that a credible story of sex with a porn star would sink him. So he broke the law.

The defense has responded mostly by grasping at straws. It tried to make the hush money look like an extortion scheme, with the former president in his favorite position as victim — a difficult maneuver, considering that Trump has spent years in the same tawdry milieu.

On Monday and Friday, the defense attorney Emil Bove used technojargon and innuendo to suggest, without a shred of proof, that a key piece of evidence — a Sept. 9, 2016, call in which Trump and Cohen discussed hush money for the Playboy model Karen McDougal — was somehow tampered with by Cohen, the F.B.I. or some other sinister force and that it might not have been Cohen on the call. The idea was to use a nanosecond gap in the call and a change in phone ownership to capture the imagination of even a single conspiracy-minded juror. It takes only one to create a hung jury.

But Bove’s cross-examination crashed when a young prosecution witness explained that when people (in this case, Cohen) buy new phones, they usually keep their old numbers.

Is that all they’ve got? No, the defense is betting on the offensiveness of Cohen, who has been ignoring repeated pleas from prosecutors to keep his mouth shut in the days before he takes the stand. (Justice Juan Merchan strongly suggested he do so.)

If Cohen can straighten up and fly right, riding on a trove of evidence and surviving cross-examination, a conviction is well within sight.