The view from the Cleopartra

First day in Aswan and switching hotels

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February 4th 2009
With the bustling market next to our hotel, we were woken up early with the sound of traffic. We phoned another hotel and have managed to book two rooms for the next two nights, so after breakfast we got a cab to head over there. As seem to be the case here, the first price the cab driver asked was 4 times the going rate. It was only after we got out and began to remove our bags off the roof, did ... 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