Pompey's Pillar and two cute little sphinxes

There's really no marker to show how big this is, but I would come up to about halfway of on of the sphinxes. Incredible that they had that sort of technology back then.

Underwater entertainment

March 17th 2007
As you may recall, I metioned fate stepping in and helping out in my last blog, and it did it again today twice! I was on my way to Pompey's Pillar, which is quite a ways from the city centre (and more importantly, off the Lonely Planet map), and got myself completely lost. I then saw the guy walking in front of me with a branded jacket with the logo "Catch Pillar", so I thought, well that must a ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Mediterranean » Alexandria

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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