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Our day guide, Jo, Vesna & Michelle  
   

Our day guide, Jo, Vesna & Michelle

Trying to figure out how the sundial tells you the time and the date!
ALEXANDRIA......by the sea!

January 17th 2007
I was delighted to discover that we had the option of doing a day trip to the second largest city in Egypt, Alexandria, which I really wanted to visit. The city is named after its founder, Alexander the Great, and it lies by the delta of the Nile on the Mediterranean Coast. What a difference from Cairo... subsitute your camels for horses, the dusty horizon for the blue Mediterranean sea and the me ... read more
Africa » Egypt » Mediterranean » Alexandria

Egyptian Flag 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
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