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Day 7: Hanging in Cairo

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April 13th 2013
We thankfully woke up after both sleeping relatively well considering the racket outtside! I woke up at about 1 or 2 with a prayer being blasted from one of the nearby mosques which seemed to last forever but then went straight back to sleep. We both got up and had showers which flooded the bathroom due to the no sided shower! But there was hot water which was good! We had a morning of skyping ... 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