Sunrise

Experiences in Egypt

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October 17th 2005
While we were in Athens, we went to a tourist agent for tickets to a Greek island and walked out with a full-blown booking to Egypt! We arrived at the Cairo airport very early on Thursday morning and had a short layover before we caught a flight to Sharm El Sheikh, a city on the Red Sea. We caught a beautiful sunrise at the airport there before we went to the resort. We stayed at an "all-inclus ... 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