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September 24th 2012
Our alarm clock went off at 3:15 in the morning for this. I had bragged to all my friends back home, "I'm taking a hot air balloon ride over Luxor...how cool am I?" They'd say, "Oh, that is amazing. You're so brave. You do the most adventurous things on your trips..." Well, besides seeming like an adventurous once-in-a-lifetime thing to do, I also thought it would help me con ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Luxor

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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