Great Pyramids of Giza

"It's HOW Old?"

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March 4th 2007
We found ourselves asking this question more than on any other tour so far. We've seen lots of "old," but this stuff is really OLD! We started and ended our tour of Egypt in Cairo. This is quite the city -- 15 million people, traffic, horns, shoe stores, mosques, pyramids, high rises, casinos, vegetable carts, statues, markets, more traffic, louder horns, more shoe stores -- well, you get the idea ... 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