Egypt
Herodotus
once wrote of Egypt that
"Nowhere are there so many marvellous things...nor
in the world besides are to be seen so many things of unspeakable
greatness ".
Travellers have long since been drawn to the country
Egypt – the Sphinx, the Nile, the Pyramids, ancient Luxor
and Aswan – all glorious wonders of an ancient civilization.
Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean
Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan,
and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. It is nearly one
and one-half times the size of Texas. Egypt is divided into
two unequal, extremely arid regions by the landscape's dominant
feature, the northward-flowing Nile River.
The source of economic, social, political and religious life
grew from the Nile’s fertile banks and gave birth to a
powerful civilisation that invented writing and erected the
first stone monuments some years BC. Some of Egypt’s most
famous temples are situated along the Nile’s banks. (Abu
Simbel, Kom
Ombo, Esna,
Edfu)
