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Unfolding Journeys UNF_Nile_layout.indd 1 Palace patra's CLeo 1 The palace of Queen Cleopatra has WONDERS harbour. No problem! disappeared under the sea in Alexandria OF TH There are plans to preserve Cruise upstream through theE history N and it in an underwater museum. mystery of the mighty River Nile, fromIL E 2 ABU QIR BAY the golden beaches of the Mediterranean Over 200 years ago, the to the Great Lakes of East Africa. broad sweep of Abu Qir Bay saw an all-night naval battle between the British and the French. 3 The ROSETTA Stone Though Rosetta XANDRIA 4 means ‘little rose’ in Italian, the ALE town is famous for a black ALEXANDRIA f o stone rather than a Y Somewhere AR under the red flower. LIBR busy streets of Alexandria lie the ruins If you like a bit 5 of the one the greatest libraries the of shopping, SILVER SANDS AT world has ever known. this is the place for you! SIDI ABDUL-RAHMAN the CATACO 6 MBS Here’s the place to stay: for a small K O fortune you can rent a seaside villa M built for the President of Egypt! E S H S H If you’re afraid of things U G creepy, don’t go down the stairs! A 7 The KHAN EL- F The rooms below were carved R out to house dead bodies. A KHALILI BAZAAR 8 Fed up with noisy neighbours? Come the city to the el-Arafa district of of the Cairo. It’s 9 EL ALaMeIN dead dead quiet. Literally! After the exciting stone of Rosetta, here are some much sadder ones: the gravestones of those who fell at the Battle of El Alamein. Syriani St macarius WADI EL NATRUN 10 The desert looks pretty bleak here, but that’s why early Christian holy men chose it as a place Anba bishoy to live. A few 12 The Al- years Paromeos ago the azhar park loveliest 11 Objects from the tomb of CAIRO area of cr Pharaoh Cairo was uisi Tutankhamun an enormous ng Thi are just rubbish dump! s is the to s best way some of the ee the River Nile. amazing items inside the Egyptian 13 the Museum, Cairo. s e GAYOR- 15 r 14 u ANDERSON C s The Glories a ea Recognise this house? MUSEUM ir tr It was used in the of GIZA o' James Bond film The s of MUSEUM Spy Who Loved Me! Over 40 16 Whale bones in Travelling up the Nile, we million years have to stop to wonder at ago, the deserts of North Africa were the desert the Pyramids and the Great under the sea – and there are whale fossils to prove it. Sphinx, don’t we? 18 Tunis, AN OASIS T h e OF ART q u a y. i 17 n r KING KHUFU'S BOAT t te t v o 19 il p A Village from the past la The ancient Egyptians built their g lly e ia boats to last. This one was o ec The ‘Pharaonic Village’ just outside Cairo is f sp constructed 4,500 years ago. Tu tivity, e an attempt to imagine life in Egypt nis a i re 3,000 years ago. n t c he tic El- t rtis Fay cen re of a oum Oasis is a 20 a camel ride 21 fava beans Some say fava beans You could visit the (broad beans) have been Pyramids by car or bus grown beside the Nile for or even on a bike. But over 6,000 years. the very best way is by camel, at sunset. 22 The WADI El-RAYAN Waterfalls Egypt’s only waterfalls are in the middle of the desert. How strange! 23 sailing along Perfect peace on our luxury dahabiya, a river cruiser with sails. 24 Amarna, the city of the sun god It was here that Pharaoh Akhenaten tried to persuade his people that there were not many 25 gods, but one: the Sun. SAND EVERYWHERE! The Nile flows through the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert. Its name means ‘desert’ in Arabic – so Sahara Desert actually means ‘Desert desert’! 26 ne ce The beautiful queen of fer a Pharaoh Akhenaten was tit gr also known as his Beloved, i, th y of the Lady of Grace, and the e lad Sweet of Love. 17/11/2016 13:23 61. CLEOPATRA’S PALACE 63. THE ROSETTA STONE 65. SILVER SANDS AT SIDI 68. THE CITY OF THE 10.6 WADI EL NATRUN 613. THE GAYER- 615. THE GLORIES 617. KING KHUFU’S BOAT 20.6 A CAMEL RIDE 623. SAILING ALONG 625. Sand Everywhere the Cleopatra – a queen, not a pharaoh – is When writing was invented, people used ABDUL-RAHMAN DEAD A wadi is a riverbed that only runs with ANDERSON MUSEUM OF GIZA In 1954, an Egyptian archaeologist The camel is the ship of the desert, so it Though the Nile is a huge river, it can still The Nile is the only river permanently flowing perhaps the best known of all the rulers of mini-pictures to represent things. The Where the Nile enters the sea, the sand In a city of overwhelming bustle and water when it rains, which is not very often When British army officer Major R.G. There is so much we don’t know about the uncovered a deep pit next to the Great makes sense to visit the Pyramids on the get pretty crowded with noisy boat traffic. through the Sahara Desert. This is hardly river ancient Egypt. When she was 11 years old, picture-writing used by the ancient and silt it brings with it dye the water a noise, Cairo’s el-Arafa district is a grim out here in the desert! The ancient Egyptians Gayer-Anderson Pasha was serving in Pyramids of Giza, especially the Great Pyramid. In it, perfectly preserved, was a back of one. Three handy tips: 1) Get onto The bigger vessels chug along to the steady surprising as half of the Sahara area gets she married her 4-year-old brother – yes, Egyptians is called hieroglyphs. More dirty brown colour. But drive 132 km (82 exception. It’s a massive burial ground, loved this place because – as the name Cairo, he fell in love with the place. He did Pyramid of King Khufu. We can see that 44-metre (144-ft) boat belonging to King your camel when it’s sitting down. 2) Lean throb of their diesel engines – but we’ve less than 2.5 cm (0.5 in) of rain per year. the Egyptian royal family did some weird modern writing used shapes (letters of miles) west along the coast to Sidi Abdul- known as the City of the Dead. There are suggests – it was where they found natron. not go back to Britain on retirement, but it was a tomb aligned with the stars. But Khufu. It was carefully taken to pieces and back when it stands up: as it rises rear-first, chosen to travel by dahabiya, a smaller, Even so, all kinds of creatures manage to live nile things in those days! She took control of the alphabet) to represent sounds. This Rahman, and you’re not far from paradise. reckoned to be around 1 million tombs here, Natron is the salty-looking mixture they used made his home in one of the oldest and most how on earth, 4,500 years ago, did reassembled in a special museum. you can be catapulted over its head. 3) Cling old-style river cruiser powered by broad, here: snakes, scorpions, hyenas, jackals and A few things to know Egypt after he drowned in the River Nile. gradually replaced hieroglyphic writing, some centuries old and crumbling, others for preserving dead bodies as mummies. they build it a near perfect square, and on tight: a camel moves both legs on one side red-and-white stripy sails. a rare antelope-like animal called an addax. At least, you used to be. The clear blue interesting houses in the city. The boat is a masterpiece. The pieces fit and before long no one even knew how to brand new and built of gleaming marble. pile up 2.3 million stone blocks to a height at the same time, swaying alarmingly. before we set off… Later, the famous Roman general Julius sea, the unspoiled, sugar-white sand of The early Christians loved this place, too, Built in the 17th century, the building was together like a jigsaw and are held in place We sit on cane chairs, shaded from the The Sahara hasn’t always been so harsh read it. For centuries people stared at the of 146 metres (479 ft)? All we can do Caesar came to Egypt with an army. He the beaches, the dusty dunes… It was all Corpses are not the City of the Dead’s and built monasteries here. Men like St once owned by a wealthy woman from with pegs and rope made of grass. Now you’ve got the hang of it, head for the Sun by a canvas awning, and watch the and empty. Before the Earth’s climate strange symbols of the ancient Egyptians is stare in astonishment at what is surely The Nile is so much more than knew all about the beautiful Cleopatra, too good to last. The place is now being only inhabitants though. In the dark and Amun, St John the Dwarf, St Moses the Crete. Gayer-Anderson bought the House Pyramids just as the sun is going down.
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