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Entrance to the Luxor Temple  
   

Entrance to the Luxor Temple

Photo courtesy of Ashley. The big obelisk you can see to the left of the entrance stands at 25m tall. There used to be another on the right side of the entrance but this now stands in Place de la Concorde, Paris. If you look back on our blogs we should have a picture of it. This was the square where all the beheadings happened during the revolution.
Handling the hassle, sailing the Nile and discovering an Ancient World

April 21st 2008
Well we sure got what we asked for when we woke up on our first day in Cairo....sun! Southern Morocco was nice and warm but Fes and Casa were around 15 when we were there so we really weren’t prepared for the 40 degree heat that awaited us in Egypt. We booked a 9 day tour of Egypt, deciding that of all the countries we were visiting on this trip, Egypt was the one that we’d most likely be tha ... read more
Africa » Egypt

Egyptian Flag 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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