Egypt 140207D

Egypt

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February 14th 2007
Ate breakfast at our hotel, then met up with Ola again for a day tour of Cairo. We drove through the city of the dead, which really is a city with buildings where people are buried. From the street, some of the buildings look like they could be single storey homes & other than a few street people, you wouldn´t know the residents were all dead. Next we drove through the ´rubbish´ city, whose 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