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Port Said for Cairo

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October 21st 2007
There is nothing much to do in the city of Port Said so we decided to use some more of our "credit" and take a ship's tour to Cairo. Both of us had been to Cairo before but never together. The coach took the desert road from Port Said to Cairo. This was very interesting as the road runs parallel to the Suez Canal for part of the way and if you look towards the canal you can sometimes see a huge sh ... 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