Transportation

Alexandria, Pyramids at Giza, and Luxor, Egypt

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January 11th 2009
The best times I had in Egypt were in Luxor. The people there were so kind and much different than the Egyptians in Alexandria and Cairo. The people's lives depend on tourism, and of course there were annoying touts, but they were humorous and quite good at telling jokes in English. Some of the touts didn't like it when I spoke Arabic to them because they want to all tourists to be ignorant for ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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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