Egypt
From the bank of the Nile River in Aswan, we boarded a felucca, a traditional wooden sailboat. It was a relaxing experience heading north with the flow of the river. The 6, 650 km river begins in the middle of Sudan and flows north through Egypt towards the Mediterranean Sea
At the age of 22, Prince Ramses II was the commander of an army under his father's reign and earned himself the title Ramses The Great. At 24, he became pharaoh making him the 3rd king to rule in the 19th dynasty.
Alexandria is Egypt's second-largest city and main port on the Mediterranean Sea. A Greek architect named Dinocrates, began construction of Alexandria in 331 BC by order of Alexander the Great.