Advertisement
« previous next »
Tahrir Square, Cairo  
   

Tahrir Square, Cairo

With Santa hats on, we crossed Tahrir Square heading for a dinner cruise on the Nile. To the left, just out of the photo, is the roundabout full of tents, banners and people. Tensions were high and patience was limited (only a day later I saw a fight break out as one group literally walked up to another and started hitting them with metal bars) so I didn't dare take a photo.
Egypt

March 10th 2014
14 December, 2012 Waving goodbye to Sudan, we headed off into the Egyptian dark. Originally the agreed plan had been to stop at Abu Simbel, only 20km or so from the border but the Egyptians now had other ideas and wanted us to continue all the way to Aswan. Feeling terrible for Suse and Nat up the front, the three of us in the back rugged up in sleeping bags and blankets and dozed, only sitting ... read more
Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

Egyptian Flag 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
Advertisement
Tot: 0.151s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 9; qc: 40; dbt: 0.0969s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.2mb