Cruising on the Nile

Sleepless in Egypt

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May 10th 2010
Going straight into the crazy mix of noise, traffic, sheer volume of people can make Egypt seem pretty daunting for the first time traveller. Fortunately when we arrived at around 4pm on 1 May having already travelled to countries such as Tunisia and Turkey, we were fairly clued up on how to deal with the "how much money can I get out of you" culture that seems to prevail throughout a lot of Egypt ... 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