El Tahrir /Sadat Square

First day in Cairo a few hundred meters from our hotel a square that is the beginning of Downtown

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November 22nd 2009
There is no question that what attracts people to Egypt at the moment tends to be the past. So far we haven't seen a great deal of the really old stuff - that is scheduled to happen in the next couple of weeks - but it is still impossible not to feel that the past is important here. It doesn't begin and end with the pyramids though. There are echoes of the past in a lot of areas. The first time ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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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