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Sensational Sinai!

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July 17th 2007
OK 9.5 hours with 70 people on a 55 seater bus through the desert without air-conditioning, with one vomit prone very bus sick nine year old isn’t the greatest, but what do you expect for $8 AU. Yet I arrived in the Sinai protectorate of St Katherina around 8:00pm and headed for the 'Fox of the Desert' (yes that’s right Chock) Bedouin camp, where I shared a room with Jose' a Peruvian I met on ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Sinai

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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