Iron Cobra 99 - The Country

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	The mighty Nile - sorry about the haze - visisbilty was about 3 miles.
	Not the Nile, but a small river running from it - makes up part of the Nile delta region.
	An oasis of sand in the middle of the green
	There is new construction all over Egypt - guess their not too worried about rain.
	The Egyptian equivalent of crop circles, these strange formations are surely a signal to the aliens that helped build the pyramids.
	Most of Egypt is like this, except for the green belt that follows the Nile.
	This is a typical villiage just outside of Cairo. Notice all the greenery around it - must be close to the Nile.
	Prayer towers dominate the city scapes, every settlement has one. This one has three.
	Sunlight reflects off the a part of the Nile.
	One of the largest buildings in this area, this one is five stories tall.
	Another villiage. The landscape is dotted with them.
	These towns don't show the grid like layout of the new cities in the western US
	No straight roads in this town. Driving is a problem, and parking is worse.
	Definitely urban sprawl
	Everyone is packed in. Nobody lives in the "country", because the country is desert.
	A lonely car on a lonely road - about 100 miles from Cairo in the middle of the desert.
	This is what 95 percent of the country looks like - Sand. Unending sand.
	A bump in the sand.
	More Sand.
	Rocks in the sand.
	A single cloud in the desert sky. Oh, and Woody, our mascot, who seems alarmed by the cloud.
	Dunes in the desert
	A white line of sand contrasting in darker sand
	A top view of the dune ridge. (note the scratches in the window. I think they use sandpaper to clean them)
	An underground oil pipeline? A leak? That's what it looked like to us.
	Another ridge of sand in the desert.
	A line of rocks, just hanging out in the desert. No sign of life. Looks like mars.
	Two tone sand.
	Dunes in the desert.
	A road in the desert - looks new. Stands out real well.
	The truck stop from hell. The only thing for about 100 miles on this stretch of road.
	More bumps in the desert. Now you know where the Egyptians got the pyramid idea from.
	Here comes the Nile. The desert abruptly ends, and the greenery begins again. For the next 10 miles or so anyway.
	A nice picture of a mosque in Southern Egypt.
	A bridge over a small cannel off the Nile.
	The Nile, giver of life.
	About 5 miles after passing the Nile, the greenery ends, and the desert begins.">
	Back to the sand again.
	We doubed this the Egyptian grand canyon. Lots of errosion, but no visible water.
	More of the Egyptian grand canyon.
	This plateau is almost gone, looks like a natural pyramid.
	The C-141 shadow on the sands of Egypt.
	Shadown of the C-141 over rocks.
	The visibility on this side of the Nile is pretty good.
	Underground water must be here, because these rock looking things in the valley are actually bushes.
	And in the middle of the bushes is this lone tree.
	A deep canyon east of Cairo.
	Another plateau, southeast of Cairo.
	Approaching the Nile again, here comes the green belt.
	Beleive it or not, the pyramids are in this picture. Unfortunately, the visibility was about 1 mile, not nearly as good as it had been in the middle of the desert. Probably due to the moisture from the Nile.
	I know they are here, but I sure can't find them now.
	Here they are, see if you can make them out!
	Another shot of the Pyramids, a little dissapointing I know, but this was a military mission, not a sightseeing tour.
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