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The driver's 21 year old cousin  
   

The driver's 21 year old cousin

She came too because she could speak English. They took me out for the whole afternoon and showed me lots and treated me really well. There's a story to how I met them but that will have to wait. Such nice people!
Egypt: Cairo, Giza, Sinai,

March 18th 2006
Hi everyone from Luxor where I've got a bit of spare time half way through my tour of Egypt so I'll do a bit of a blog before catching a train later this afternoon to start the Nile Cruise. Egypt has blown me away. The history here is mind boggling. I'm looking at stuff made by people 4-5000 years ago. What is amazing is that things like rope and cloth and paper look just like what we use today. ... 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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