Local Beduins

Hope for Cairo?

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April 29th 2010
What can you say about Cairo, the largest city in Africa? It is loud, dirty, the traffic is atrocious and surprisingly we did not like it! Our hotel, The Cairo Palace, was good although it did not look it from the outside. We hired a taxi for the day and went first to the Giza Pyramids. Terry was not impressed the first time he saw them and his mind did not change. We went between the pyram ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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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