1.0 link 156789 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/going-down-the-nile-in-st_b_156789.html The sudden calm aboard the dahabiyya was a shock. Nothing but the blue-silver water of the Nile, passing alongside palms and desert hills, with the silence of wave slurps, birds and, far off in the distance, on shore, a call for Muslim prayer. After three days of running through temples and tombs in Luxor, hassled by even the guides for a bit of baksheesh (tips), and called out to by every walking male, nothing could be higher on my list...

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