The rivers of the Western Desert

This is with an iphone out of the window of a plane flying Luxor to Cairo; there's mile after mile after mile of this sort of amazingly branching dried-up river bed. I don't have the slightest idea what it would have looked like when wet - it's not the Okavango Delta, they're clearly tributaries merging rather than an enormous thing splitting - or when it dried.

This may in fact be the most cliched picture in the world

I also rode a donkey; I think the camel was better, if only because it was more firmly attached to a camel-guide and less self-willed.

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Among the defects of goddess-hood in Ancient Egypt is the requirement to wear the auspicious vulture, Upper Egyptian symbol of protection, on the head. I imagine the vultures can't enjoy it much either.