Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

[GaudiaRay]

http://web.mac.com/swervinben/iWeb/Egypt/Egypt.html

Images of the Nile, the birds, the countryside, the feral dogs, the scavenging goats, the built environment.

Additional pics later, if I can get my hands on them from my travel partner.

 

[AlaskaDenise]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

thanks for sharing the photos.

It is easy to see how the area suitable for people, livestock, & wildlife is only a narrow communal band - surrounded by vast drylands. Suitable separations would be difficult.

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[GaudiaRay]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

thanks for sharing the photos.

It is easy to see how the area suitable for people, livestock, & wildlife is only a narrow communal band - surrounded by vast drylands. Suitable separations would be difficult.

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Bingo, that's what human-inhabited Egypt is. There's life on both sides of the Nile and then there's nothing but desert until one gets to the Red Sea or up to Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile. You see from the images the extent of civilization, from mountain range to mtn range, and that's all there is. The birds populate the fields and live in the trees and along the Nile. The people interact with wild birds every day of their lives, except in the big cities, where it's the same everywhere, man destroying the environment.

 

[Snowy Owl]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

Thank you very much GR for sharing these photos.

 

[Treyfish]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

thank you for the most interesting pictures!a harsh lifestyle for sure !too dry for me.and the donkey heads?ancient land,ancient ways.

 

[Mellie]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

Ditto on the thanks GR.

Interesting to see the inversion layer over the city/Nile River valley.

Blowing sand or polution from vehicles, industry?

 

[achoo]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

I want to know about the donkey heads too.

 

[GaudiaRay]

Re: Pictures of Egypt, April, 2006

Donkey heads! Saw them only when I posted the pics. Cool in Cairo at curevents says he's never seen such before, but he's in a big city. Anything goes in the countryside and smaller towns. The cops don't care. It's now easy for me to understand that it's easy to kill cops, like is being done in Iraq. The cops are a "separate" population. They are paid better and they're almost all "pretending" to be cops. The necessity, rational thought, is far from their educational experience. They can't really help a priori and they can't help after the fact.