Giza

Back to the Heat in Chapter 6

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November 30th 2010
I stopped counting after 39. It was time I gave up on trying to count how many times my taxi driver from the airport was going to honk his horn. I was headed to downtown Cairo. Unfortunately, my friend missed her connection to Cairo in Istanbul. She called our tour company and told them her new flight info. What they didn’t realize is that we weren’t traveling together; therefore no one w ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt

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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