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Egypt - Luxor to Cairo

August 16th 2009
After a restless night (thanks to the shoulder) we had breakfast and jumped on the bus and drove north to Luxor, stopping at two temples along the way (Kom Ombo and Edfu). Edfu was the most remarkable seen thus far as it was mostly preserved thanx to the layers upon layers of sand that had covered it for the majority of it's life. All of the temples we have seen have been located right beside the ... read more
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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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