Advertisement
« previous next »
Floating. In de Nile  
   

Floating. In de Nile

I am cleopatra as I lounge on my felucca, drifting down the Nile eating grapes. Just reinacting it.
Bismallah

September 26th 2023
I can still picture that National Geographic magazine on my grandparent’s dusty coffee table, right next to the Swarovski bowl, full of stale sweets. It was February 1982 and I was 13 years old. Despite the controversy about the Giza pyramids touching each other in the cover photo. It didn’t matter. It ignited a spark within me to travel to this exotic place to marvel at this feat of mankind. ... read more
Africa » Egypt

Egyptian Flag The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more
Advertisement
Tot: 0.038s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 4; qc: 5; dbt: 0.0147s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 2; ; mem: 1.1mb