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In
the fifth century BC Herodotus wrote of Egypt that 'nowhere are there
so many marvelous things...nor in the world besides are to be seen
so many things of unspeakable greatness' - and not too much has changed.
The Sphinx, the Nile, ancient Luxor, the pyramids - Egypt's scope
is glorious.
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AModern
Egypt is an amalgam of these legacies and modern influences. Mud-brick
villages stand beside millennia-old ruins surrounded by buildings
of steel and glass. Some townsfolk dress in long flowing robes,
others in Levis and Reeboks, and city traffic competes with donkey-drawn
carts and wandering goats. Nowhere are these contrasts played out
so colourfully as in Cairo, a massive city thronged with people
and ringing to the sound of car horns, ghetto-blasters and muezzins
summoning the faithful to prayer. Egypt isn't all chaos and clatter,
however. It's also a diver's dream dip, a trek across the sands
on a camel or a long lazy punt down the Nile.
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