Careening Caireins in Crazy Cairo! 1st class accomodation on the sleeper train to Aswan

"Ginormous beds!". That's Ernst's descriptor for the expensive but comfortable train ride to Aswan.

September 10th 2007
We arrived in Egypt the first of September--it seems like a month since we've been in the cool weather of the UK. We arrived in Cairo international after getting up at 4AM (thanks again, Paul, for the ride at that obscene hour!!), changing in Milan and having the child from hell sitting behind me screaming, whining and kicking the back of my chair. The customs gate at Cairo was a joke--we bought ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

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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