A slower but infinitely more rewarding way to travel North-South across Egypt or visa versa is by cruise boat or felucca. Feluccas are the classic Nile sale boats more popular with budget travellers. Facilities are usually basic and sleeping is something done communally on deck rather than in private cabins.
Cruise boats range from monstrous luxury floating palaces to rather more understated vehicles. Nile cruises can be booked through tour operators in your home country, online, or through touts (middle men) that loiter around banks of the river Nile in just about every major tourist destination. It will take one hour and half.Pay the cost price .