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Cairo - Day 2 - Dec 27th

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December 28th 2009
Hi everyone, STill going on about Cairo and our time there - because it's the only time we would ever go there... first we went to the Pyramids which took up most of the morning and a museum too. John thinks the pyramids are a stack of old rubble but found it interesting - the history etc and fascinating because we were there and had heard about them throughout our lives. It was quite hot th ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Giza

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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