Ancient ResetLuxury Wellness Retreat on Egypt's Suez Canal

The property sits on the western bank of the Suez Canal, on nearly two acres of land that have been in my family for as long as I can remember. The desert meets the water here and the horizon holds nothing else. At night the only sound is the slow passage of ships, tankers from Singapore, container vessels from Rotterdam, the occasional naval escort, moving through the dark a few hundred meters from where you sleep. By morning the light comes in low and gold across the water, and for a long hour there is no one and nothing to ask anything of you.

The canal was finished in 1869. It took eleven years and tens of thousands of lives to build. Empires fought over it. A war in 1956 nearly went nuclear because of it. Today, more than a century and a half later, roughly twelve percent of all global trade still passes through this single channel of water, and almost no one who passes through has ever stepped off, slept on its banks, or sat with what it actually is.

No one has built a sanctuary here before. There are hotels in Cairo, resorts on the Red Sea, cruises down the Nile. But no one has stopped on the canal itself and asked what it would mean to rest here. Ancient Reset is what happens when someone who grew up on this land comes back to it, and decides to share it with seven people at a time.