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For thousands of years, images of the majestic River Nile have been associated
with ideologies of romance and mystery. Intrigue surrounds her serpentine passage through
the golden expanse of the African desert to bring colour and life to the ribbons of
fertile land hugging her banks. Her path, longer than any other river in the world, was the birthplace some 9,000 years ago, to one of the world’s first great civilizations. Still today, more than 150 million people of every colour and creed depend on her for their existence. September 2004 will mark the beginning of a perilous journey of courage and discovery from source to sea. Never before has anyone paddled the entire length of the River Nile in a single unbroken journey, from the source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana in the Ethiopian highlands, to where she spills into the Mediterranean Sea 4,900 kilometres (3,060 miles) later. While others have paddled various sections of the river, no one has completed her course without the use of a motorboat. The 4-month expedition will lunge through some of the most untamed areas on earth, including parts that were not mapped until the 1930s. Mortality will be in the hands of the gods with hazards such as crocodiles, civil unrest and tropical disease posing great risk throughout the journey. The route will encompass areas of unthinkable natural beauty, regions home to some of the most fascinating cultures on the globe and some of the greatest human-made structures of the ancient world including the temples, tombs and pyramids of Pharaoh Egypt. Find out more about this extraordinary
journey right here on NileTrip.com |
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