Mediterranean winter resorts : a practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean .. / / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball ... With a map of the Mediterranean [and several diagrams.].

  • Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred), 1858-1928.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mediterranean winter resorts : a practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean .. / / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball ... With a map of the Mediterranean [and several diagrams.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    but who desire to be within driving distance ot their friends, and who dread the somewhat sombre monotony of Helouan, The Sphinx and the Pyramids, besides many attractions of their own, ensure a constant stream of visitors during the winter months. The air at botli suburbs is probably equally pure and equally dry. For the comfort of the guests, there are provided, a resident English doctor and chaplain, a chapel, a noble dining- room for 250 people, chamber-maids, swimming bath, excellent conservancy arrangements, drinking-water from a special well in the desert, steam laundry, a stringed band, books and maga- zines, billiard tables and photograph rooms. There are desert- carts for driving, horses and camels for riding, occasional races, golf and lawn tennis and capital shooting from November to April. The climate of Helouan and the Pyramids is much the same as in Cairo, except that the air is fresher, purer, and drier. Luxor. Visitors in search of absolute rest, with three or four months at their command, and content with the society of their own party, go up the Nile in sailing-boats. Others travel as far as Assouan or Wady Haifa in well-fitted steamers, three or four of which leave Cairo every week. Luxor is a large village of 4000 natives, some 450 miles south of Cairo, and not yet connected with it all the way by train. It is the resort for all those who, like the quail, wish to escape the comparative cold and damp in Cairo during January and February. There are now three hotels with accommodation for over 200 visitors, a resident English doctor, and unrivalled opportunities for seeing the wonders of Thebes and Karnak. There is practically no rain, the air is almost the driest in the world, and the tempera- ture, though cold at night, is delightful by day. The Luxor climate in December is very like that of Cairo and its neigh- bourhood in March, while the climate at Luxor in January, February and March is very similar respectively to February, March and April in Cairo, The minimum bedroom temperature at Luxor seldom falls below 63°. Cairo, June^ 1892.]