Aswan Photo 4

Aswan

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March 23rd 2011
A sleepless night on the night train to Aswan - lights on, legs bent with no hope of stretching out, loud arabic ring tones, smokey carriages, and then the conductor tapping his stick to check my ticket when I had finally fallen asleep! 12 hour journey to Aswan travelling next to the Nile and with lots of lush greenery out the window - fields, bullrushes, palm trees, camels, donkeys, goats. Peop ... read more

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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