They say that once you drink the water of the Nile, you cannot quench your thirst anywhere else; you will be drawn back to Egypt. My friends assured me it was the years that I spent living in Cairo, daily drinking the water of the Nile, that kept me returning to Egypt every few months [...]
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Life on Cairo’s Houseboats
Thursday, May 13th, 2010Dancing in Egypt’s White Desert
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010I always considered myself a beach person until I spent time in the White Desert. Huge natural monuments of limestone and sandstone dot the landscape, some shaped like the heads half buried sphinxes, others resemble huge birds contemplating flight. For 4 days, friends and I wandered through the expanse of the desert, occasionally picking up fossilized shells from an ancient sea long since swallowed up by sand.
