Felluca's on the Nile

Salum alakum!

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March 7th 2006
Thats hello in Arabic by the way! See - i'm starting to learn the language already!! So now coming to you from Aswan, 800km south of cairo - much nicer than Cairo coz its just a small town so it's nowhere near as manic and busy and the people are even friendlier! We got here on an epic train journey which took 12 hours, im still recovering from that journey now! The heat doesn't make it better, ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

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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