Medinat Habu, West Bank Luxor

Goodbye Luxor and Hello Dahab!

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January 27th 2006
Just before we started this trip, one of the things we said we wouldn't do was to travel on night buses in the developing world. Experience tells us from our time in India and Nepal that it is often bl**dy awful - cold, uncomfortable buses and dodgy driving. Anyway, funny that we now find ourselves in Dahab utterly exhausted and out of sorts after a 17.5 hour bus journey from Luxor. Predictably, ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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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