The Pyramids at Giza

Egypt

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October 15th 2007
We arrived in Cairo at around 2.00am in the morning. We met some other aussie travellers and took a ride in a clapped out old volvo to our hostel called 'the let me in hostel'. We were immediately surprised by the Egyptian hospitality when the guy who checked us into the hostel made us a cup of tea at 2.30 in the morning. The first thing we noticed about Egypt was the heat. Even though we had been ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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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