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Sugar Cane fields

Again from Luxor. Sitting in a field chewing on sugar cane sticks is so much more fulfilling than rushing through old temples with thousands of stupid tourists. I'm proud to have skipped most sites in Luxor. Prouder yet that at the Valley of Kings (I didn't go in) the touts completely left me alone...
Onwards and Up the Nile

April 16th 2005
Aswan. Luxor. Sa’aid. Upper Egypt. Gradually increasing “African features”, and changing landscape, colors (even of clothing and houses) as we move steadily south. Even the trip from Cairo to Luxor covered more ground on the map than places that took me more than a month to travel in the fertile northern countries. Yes, in the Syrian desert I wondered at the fact that apart from th ... read more
Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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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