Sphynx at the Giza Plateau

Egypt

February 2nd 2007
CAIRO As one might expect, like most tourists in Egypt we were thrilled to visit the pyramids! We began our trip with a couple of days in Cairo which were composed of day trips to Saqqara (the oldest of pyramids which they say served as the basis for all pyramid construction methods), Memphis and the Giza Plateau. No, Elvis never lived in Egypt....this place is much older. Amazing as t ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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

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A Trip Around the World "Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has a personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only w... full info

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