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| THE SAHARA DESERT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Beyond the breathtaking Nile lies the Sahara, the Great Sand Sea. This is the Egypt most people never see, a spectacular, vast landscape of pastel-hued sand dunes and intriguing eroded sandstone formations, of conical-shaped hills and sheer-sided cliffs. This is a And in the midst of this rough wilderness are the remains of prehistoric settlements. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MOUNT SINAI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This road at Mount Sinai winds its way to Bir Zreir, Egypt. According to the Old Testament, Mount Sinai, sometimes called Horeb, is the sacred mountain on which Moses received the Ten Commandments. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| THE RED SEA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Underwater secene of the Red Sea. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Red Sea is and inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. Occupying a part of the Great Rift Valley, the Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 174,000 square miles: being roughly 1,200 miles long and over 190 miles wide. It has a maximum depth of 8,200 feet. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 soft and hard corals and is the world's most northern tropical sea. The Red Sea is one of the most saline water bodies in the world. Salinity ranges between 3.6 and 3.8 %. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Moses splits the Red Sea-Yam Suf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||