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Egypt Part I: the beach

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June 6th 2009
jet lag? pffft... jet lag laughs in the face of tarn and steve! Ok, so a bit more sleep in Hong Kong might have helped. 40 degree heat, 5 flights and little sleep over the past 60 hours and it finally catches up with us, basically losing our brains and acting like zombies for two days! Once we recovered though we found our lovely little niche of Dahab and enjoyed a "honeymoon" week of sun, s ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Sinai » Dahab

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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