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Egypt

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February 5th 2007
Managed to get an hour in on the internet before going down to the river to board my home for the next two nights - a felucca. Ate lunch on board not long after setting off & spent a lazy afternoon alternating between reading & napping. There is another Intrepid group parallelling our route for the first few days of the trip, and they caught up with us an hour or so before we docked for the day. ... 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