About to leave on the felucca ride

So hot right now

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August 19th 2006
Well we thought Luxor was bad but the further south you go in Egypt the hotter it gets! Yesterday was a barmy 50 degrees which is rather warm and apparently they can get up to 55- 56 deg on a truly hot day. Fair enough though as it is the middle of the Egyptian summer and we are only a couple of kms from the Sahara Desert! Anyway on Thursday morning we had a very early start (3am!) in order to ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

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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