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| photo: Susan Gray |
This is a picture of the Nile Cataracts which my friend
Susan took last month in 54deg of scorching heat. She flew into Khartoum and
then travelled across the desert in a group of [4] Landcruisers mainly to see
the Upper Egyptian tombs and monuments. Susan lived in Cairo for four years and
is more familiar than most with ancient Egyptian culture. Having said which,
she has never visited Abu Simbel just down the road from the Cataracts, which I
have.
In Victorian times when Richard Burton and other famous
explorers were trying to find the source of the Nile, they thought the
Cataracts were it but of course we know now that they are only the confluence
of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Even now, it is an incredibly difficult
place to reach.
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