One more

Desperate to have enough pictures for this blog, I'm uploading this one which probably looks fairly repetitive by now. A woman in a village (she didn't see me taking her picture so I didn't get harassed for 'one bound').

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

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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

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