Neil - African "Vienna Life"

In this article, we will tell you about the Nile River. The latter is considered the longest river of the Planet, the length of her bed is 7000 kilometers.

For the past 150 years has been actively studied Nile Valley, and during that time mankind has opened many monuments of civilization that existed thousands of years. It is worth noting that while the bulk of the treasures of ancient buildings and numerous works of art safely hide African sands. It's safe to say that Neil has created and Egypt, and his entire civilization. After all, this amazing river allow civilization to grow their crops thus exist and develop.


World of Ancient Egypt, which concluded in the Nile Valley attracts and excites more than one generation each year millions of tourists are sent to the shores of this great river to touch the ancient civilization. Definitely, Neil - the greatest river of the Planet, it stuns every tourist to its natural, historical and ethnographic diversity and richness.

One of the features is its source of the Nile, which is rightly an intriguing puzzle lovers of Egypt and geographers. Since the beginning of the great geographical discoveries, as well as the appearance of the first maps, from south to north Africa, the Nile has steadily increased in length. Ie, physically river itself is not extended, the fact that the researchers delve into the maze of the continent in its southern part, in the hope of finding the very source from which it originates Nile.



In 2006 alone, geographers expedition was made a sensational discovery, postponing the start of the Nile on a lot of kilometers to the south of Africa. Thus, the three scientists went from the African coast to the heart of the continent ... As a result, scientists have crossed borders and 5 in front of them reigned wilderness. From that moment a new source of the Nile is considered to be in Rwanda.

Nile Valley - African treasure of all mankind. Going on a journey through this valley, one can see thousands of miracles, as architectural and historical and cultural.

In the middle reaches of the Nile before you brought the rock tombs of Beni-Hassan, as well as a necropolis in Tuna el Gebel. Here you can see the temple Speos Artemidos, which is dedicated to the goddess Sekhmet, the lion.



In addition, in the vicinity of Asyut tourist can visit the monastery of the Virgin Mary, where the feast of the Blessed Virgin is going to order one million pilgrims! Sohag located near the White and Red Monasteries, where you can feel the life of the early Christians and austere atmosphere.

By the way, in Akhmim, weaving traditions are ticking from the time when the pharaohs ruled here you can buy cheap and at the same time incredibly high-quality cotton and silk fabrics.



Also Nile Valley will give you the ruins of Tel-el-Amarna - the most unfortunate capital of the ancient world, where the Pharaoh Akhenaten overthrew the gods of his ancestors, intended to instill the cult of the solar disk Aten, but in the end he failed. By the way, in the beautiful palaces of Tel el-Amarna and his wife lived - all famous beauty Nefertiti.

Talk about the cultural and natural dignity of the Nile River, you can literally talk for days, but it's better in person to touch this majesty and beauty. Neil - incredibly beautiful and mysterious river, which is really worth seeing!