Folks, below is the commentary of my short visit to South Africa in Feb 2010. This was an official visit for 3 weeks and I got to explore the countryside only during weekends. Hence my trip details will be no means exhaustive. Still a couple of pointers and some photos to share with the readers of www.ghumakkar.com and an humble attempt to enrich this wonderful site.
Ready for a long drive
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About three months back, I was in Egypt. Egypt to me has been enigmatic in more ways than I could imagine.
While there, I immersed myself to soak in the culture of the land of the pharaohs. They may have lived 7500 years ago but their memories are still strong in present day Egypt. They believed and led their subjects to believe that they represented the gods on earth. The Egyptians were precocious and did create one of the earliest civilizations on the earth. From those times, they grew cotton and invented paper, and codified many things about life and death.
Now let’s go to modern day Cairo. While on my way to Giza that morning, I had shot this picture when the Nile River in that area was still encompassed in mist.
