Pyramids in the distance.

Cairo to Abu Simbel

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January 24th 2012
We started the trip south with a trip to Giza and the pyramids. It really surprised us to find that the pyramids are in a suburb of Cairo. Out of the bus and on to a camel. Lumbering over the sand dunes towards the Great Pyramid. What a sight to behold. the Sphinx was as enigmatic as anything we've come across. After the pyramids we went to the Cairo museum. A gigantic storehouse of Egyptian a ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Thebes

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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