I am such a tourist

Pyramids

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December 3rd 2006
Probably the most identifiably Egyptian location, the Pyramids have captured the minds of travellers for hundreds of years. And now we finally got our turn to see them for ourselves. We set out fairly early, still learning the names of our fellow group members in the bus on the way out there, and after negotiating the Cairo morning traffic we saw the distinctive points of the pyramids rising ab ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Giza

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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