Day 3. Mon 15th September The road to Sinai.

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Egypt Picture by DaveMidgley
Travel story: Day 3. Mon 15th September The road to Sinai.

Up at 7:30, greatly refreshed, to begin our journey to the Sinai Peninsular. We pile into a minibus (air-conditioned this time) and head east out of Cairo. As we leave the irrigated Nile valley the landscape quickly turns to desert.
The peculiar characteristic of Egypt, that has dicatated its way of life from ancient times until the present day, is that, except on the Mediterranean coast, it never rains. Even in tropical African countries there is a rainy season, but in Egypt (which is... More