Great video. I find it depressing that they couldn't think of anything better to do with that fertile land than to put a highway along the middle of it. From

Great video. I find it depressing that they couldn't think of anything better to do with that fertile land than to put a highway along the middle of it. From Luxor onwards the fertile band is substantially wider, more like 20km, as can be seen on Google Maps. http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.61167,31.330261&spn=1.34433,2.763062&t=h&z=9 http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.61167,31.330261&#38... Does anyone know why the desert of North Africa is so... desert? - In Australia, even the deserts, which are supposed to be some of the driest in the world, in terms of rainfall, have far more vegetation. See here for an example: http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=-21.002351,124.804816&spn=0.022556,0.043173&t=h&z=15 http://maps.google.fr/?ie=UTF8&ll=-21.002351,124.804816&...