The View from the Juiana Hotel

Final Day in Egypt

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March 3rd 2009
Our big task today is to mail off some our excess weight and collections so that we can make the big weight check in tomorrow, so after breakfast Evy and I flagged a taxi to take us to the post office. Our taxi drive was the usual crazy Cairo journey. The taxi was barely hanging together (I think the passenger door was about to fall off), the taxi driver didn't seem to know how to get there (in ... 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