Giza Pyramids viewed from city

Arrival in a city of chaos and charm

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May 14th 2009
Flying over Egypt gave us an insight of what we were to encounter over the next few days. There was a patchwork of cultivated land, desert that spanned for ages and what appeared to be a child's building block version of buildings in circular formations scattered around the landscape. The towns looked brown and completly devoid of greenery, which we discovered later was not true as the buidling bl ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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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