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LOCATION : NEW TROY .

I . HISTORY the beating heart of metropolis . one of six boroughs of metropolis , serving as the central business district . established in 1775 , situated in the state of delaware . new troy is home to many established businesses and technology companies . new troy is now a huge competitor for one of most recognised cities on east coast including gotham city and new york city .

ii . NOTABLE BUSINESSES new troy is home to an up and coming technology centre of science and industry . businesses include : lexcorp , wayne financial , wayne technologies , kord industries , s.t.a.r. labs , magnus labs , goldstar inc. , hamilton technologies , stagg enterprises , project cadmus , ivo labs & metropolis financial .

iii . MEDIA OUTLETS metropolis is home to key media organisations and has the most respected publications in the world. media includes : black beacon , bridwell communications , daily planet , daily star , galaxy communications , metropolitan.com , metropolis daily news , metropolis eagle , metropolis 8 news , metropolis today , newstime magazine , the whisper , wgbs-tv , wjab-tv , wlex-tv , wmet-tv & ubc .

iv . DISTRICTS new troy is divided into eight districts , all promising something different that will attract tourists from all over : arts district , chinatown , lower east side , midtown , hob's bay dockyard , suicide slum , upper east side & upper west side .

v . LANDMARKS new troy is unlike any other city , interesting and modern architecture and home to superman . new troy boasts landmarks which tourists flock to every year such as : avenue of tomorrow , city hall , heroes park formerly known as centennial park , lena luthor science explorarium , lexcorp plaza including the lexcorp tower with an observation deck , metro palace theatre , metropolis museum of art , superman monument & the daily planet globe .

vi . WATERWAYS new troy is surrounded by different waters , home to some interesting and stunning marine life . with gotham city across the bay , new troy has a stunning view of the seas and is the beating heart of the east coast trade route which increases metropolis' economy each year . waterways include : hob's bay , metropolis bay & the west river .

vii . BRIDGES new troy sits on an island , but it's not alone . connected by a series of beautifully built bridges which connects the centre of metropolis to other boroughs of the city . these include : bakerline bridge , clinton bridge & queensland bridge .

viii . SPORTS metropolis is home to many sports teams who have a global fanbase . new troy is home to metropolis' baseball , football and basketball sports teams . baseball : metropolis blue stockings , metropolis meteors ( national league ) , metropolis metros , metropolis mets , metropolis monarchs & metropolis twins . basketball : metropolis comets , metropolis generals & metropolis spartans . football : metropolis spartans , metropolis meteors ( national conference ) , metropolis metros , metropolis sharks , metropolis tigers & metropolis university bulldogs .

ix . HOME OF HEROES the main attraction to the city of metropolis is the variety of heroes that live amongst us . new troy boasts a roster of exciting and brave heroes including : agent liberty , argent , atom , black lightning , booster gold , gangbuster , guardian , joto , prysm , risk , superboy , supergirl , superman & thorn .

x . NOTABLE RESIDENTS it's not just the heroes that have an impact on the city . new troy also boasts some popular residents that you may know from various news outlets or their award winning works : anthony gallo , bill henderson , bobby "the don" gazzo , cat grant , clark kent , dirk davis , dan turpin , emil hamilton , frank jackson , gretchen kelley , henry ballard , hope taya , jenny jurwich , jimmy olsen , joshua coyle , justin moore , lana lang , lex luthor , lola barnett , lois lane , loren jupiter , lucy lane , maggie sawyer , mercy graves , morgan edge , oscar asherman , perry white , ron troupe , steve lombard , sydney happersen , toby raynes , trixie collins & vincent edge .

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Ronnie Bell Following

Douglas Dauntless (SBD) 380.

The Dauntless (SBD) Described

By David Brazelton

According to the pilots who flew it, the Dauntless was a well-liked airplane. Its maneuverability permitted it to be flown like a fighter. It was this nimbleness that permitted the SBD to score a very respectable number of victories against attacking fighters.

Remember that, although the airplane was technically a bomber, the French used it for about five years as an aerobatic trainer. It did have aerobatic limitations, a relatively slow roll rate in particular, but it had the strength to permit fledgling pilots to make spectacular execution errors with an excellent chance of survival.

It was this great structural integrity, combined with a famously reliable engine, that permitted aggressive attacks on a heavily defended target with a good chance of getting back to the carrier/base.

One SBD staggered back to the flight deck after action in the Coral Sea Battle with 214 holes in its airframe. A pilot can easily fall in love with an airplane like that!

Possibly the Dauntless’s greatest deficiency during its life was in its gun-power. In 1941, it could be considered a well-armed airplane. By 1943-1944, the two forward-firing guns were simply not adequate. Two good guns are all that are required for good air-to-air gunnery, but ground support is best performed behind a hail of lead.

The Dauntless’s fuselage was an all metal, aluminum alloy, semi-monocoque, stressed skin structure built in for sub-assemblies.

The cockpit was enclosed with a continuous transparent canopy with one stationary and three sliding sections. The windshield had a laminated bullet-proof glass and steel armor plating was installed in strategic locations to protect the crew.

The radio operator-gunner was equipped with a duplicate set of controls and was armed with a pair of .30 caliber machine guns on a ring mount.

The yoke bomb displacement gear was located beneath the center of the fuselage and afforded 12 inches of propeller clearance for the bomb.

The wing was made of all metal, multi-cellular stressed skin construction. Lift was generated by an NACA 2415-2409 airfoil augmented by hydraulically operated trailing edge wing flaps.

Additional drag was available to control diving speed by the perforated split dive flap function of the trailing edge flap. In a dive, the lower flap was depressed 40 degrees and the upper flap raised 37.5 degrees.

The hydraulically operated landing gear retracted inwards flush with the bottom of the wing surface. The strut was faired but the wheel was exposed. The full-swivel tail wheel was fixed. The ailerons were of all metal ribbed construction and fabric covered. A metal trim tab was installed in the left aileron.

The tail assembly featured an all metal cantilever structure. The stabilizers were metal covered and the movable surfaces were fabric. Trim was accomplished with tabs in the trailing edge of all movable surfaces.

This was the airplane that prompted Rear Admiral John McCain to state, “The Douglas SBD has sunk more enemy combatant tonnage than all other arms of the service combined.”

This was the aircraft of which TIME Magazine wrote in 1944, “She had no bugs, no streaks of temperament. She was a thoroughly honest aircraft. She could take a frightful beating and stagger home on wings that sometimes looked like nutmeg graters.”

The airplane grew old during World War II and by the war’s end was mainly used up. So common was the airplane in the lives of aviation people at the time and so completely exhausted was she that no one thought to preserve its memory and legend by saving some for display.

Like many Americans whose way of life was momentarily in the hands of the Douglas Dauntless, I have never seen one.More About the Dauntless SBD

Designed as a scout/ dive bomber, the Dauntless has its roots in a Northrop development prior to takeover by Douglas. Ed Heinemann's team produced the prototype XBT-2 which resulted in an order in August 1939. Production commenced the following June with the initial Douglas built SBD-1s going to the USMC in late 1940 and the SBD-2s to the USN in 1941. The SBD-2 had an extra 100 US gallons fuel capacity and one less 50 cal. fuselage mounted gun.

The SBD-3 appeared in March 1941 with increased fuel capacity in self sealing tanks, increased armor and armament, and an R-1820-52 replacing the R-1820-32. Some were altered to carry a twin 30 cal. gun mount for the gunner. The SBD-4 was basically the same as the -3 using a 24volt electrical system (instead of 12volt) and a hydromatic propeller. The SBD-5 featured the 1,200 hp R-1820-60 engine, increased ammunition capacity, twin 30 cal. gun mount as standard, and radar.

The final production version, the SBD-6, used a 1350hp R-1820-66 and carried more fuel. The US Army also utilized the Dauntless, where the SBD-3 was designated A-24 Banshee, the SBD-4 as A-24A, and SBD-5 as A-24B. The aircraft were similar to the SBDs, but lacked a tail hook. Most also had a pnuematic tail wheel, as opposed to the solid rubber tire favored by the USN (some USMC aircraft also had this change). Production amounted to 5,936 aircraft of all types (ending July 22, 1944).

The RNZAF operated 69 dauntless aircraft (NZ5001-NZ5068, Bu28452) in the 1943-44 periods. Initially 206 A-24 aircraft were to be allocated under lend-lease provisions during 1943-44. However, none were delivered. When deliveries were delayed, the RNZAF was loaned 27 USMC SBD-3 and SBD-4s from Marine Air Group 14 (MAG-14).

These aircraft were allocated to 25 Squadron at Seagrove for training purposes in July 1943. The SBD-3 aircraft were initially operated in US markings with temporary RNZAF serials (NZ205-222), although these were later reallocated serials NZ5001-NZ5018. The SBD-4 aircraft were allocated NZ5019 through NZ5027. The aircraft were formally transferred to New Zealand in November 1943.

The 25 Squadron pilots underwent a 60 hour conversion course onto the Dauntless. Many of the pilots had come from disbanded Army Cooperation squadrons. The training aircraft were notably war weary - some of them were reputedly veterans of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal. It has been estimated the serviceability of these aircraft was only in the order of 40%. However a formation of 18 aircraft was put up over Auckland on January 6, 1944 to mark the end of training.

At that time it was largest formation seen over Auckland. One aircraft was lost by 25 Squadron during training in a fatal accident- NZ211 (not yet serialed NZ5007) stalled while low flying near Wailuku on September 13 1943 and crashed and burned with the loss of P/O William McJannet and Sgt Douglas Cairns. A further aircraft was written off in training by 26 Squadron (see below)

25 Squadron were posted to Espiritu Santo at the end of January 1944 for forward operational training without aircraft. The A and B flights of the Servicing Unit (25 SU) which had formed in October 1943 left New Zealand on December 7 (aboard USS Octans) and arrived at Santo on December 12 1943. (C flight traveled up by air in January after 26 Squadron was disbanded). There they prepared 18 more loaned USMC SBD-4s (NZ5028-NZ5045).

Records show the first 9 aircraft to have been brought on charge on December 17. The next four were brought on charge on Dec 26, with a further aircraft on Dec 30. Two more pairs were accepted on January 8 and January 26, 1944. Again these aircraft were reportedly in poor condition. The aircraft were used to carry out operational training. Based from Pallikulo, the six week program involved area familiarization, radio work, and practice missions - including working with US (predominantly USMC) dive bomber units. During this period one aircraft, NZ5037, was lost. The aircraft had been on an early afternoon flight for radio familiarization when it disappeared with F/O Alexander Moore and his WOPAG, Flt.Sgt John Munro. The wreckage was not located until 1987, when it was found about 23 miles North West of Santo (more on this aircraft below).

The SBD-4 aircraft were replaced by new SBD-5 aircraft (NZ5046-NZ5063) prior to the squadron commencing combat operations from Bougainville in March 1944. The aircraft were officially brought on charge on various dates from February 19 to early March, 1944. New Zealand serials were applied from February 25th. 25 SU were sent by sea to the new base arriving on March 15th to take up the camp previously occupied by MAG-24 at Piva near Torokina. The arrival of the aircraft was postponed as the area was still subject to enemy shelling. The first wave of aircraft departed on March 22, and arrived on March 23, with the remainder arriving the following day. One aircraft was lost in route, when NZ5055 crashed and was written off at Henderson Field on the 22nd. On the 24th a number of sorties were carried out from Piva against enemy positions near the perimeter - 4 for artillery spotting, and 19 for bombing. It was a curious situation as the ground crew who bombed up the aircraft could then watch them take off and deliver the ordnance on the target. A further 15 local sorties were carried out on March 25th, and these activities continued for a fortnight.

The primary role for the squadron was to assist in actions against the Japanese bases at Rabaul. The first operation was scheduled for March 26 against Kavieng airfield, but the squadron did not make the rendezvous. The squadron only failed to complete a mission on two other occasions, successfully completing 29 operations between March 27 and May 17. The squadron was under the control of General H.R. Harman COMAIRSOLS (Commander Air Solomons) and was effectively part of the Strike Command. However, the dive bomber squadron was frequently tasked to attack airfields in company with RNZAF 30 Squadron who operated TBF-1C Avengers. The 25 Squadron aircraft would suppress gun positions, while the Avengers attacked the runways. 25 SU were tasked with providing 12 serviceable aircraft each day from the average squadron strength of15. They managed this on all except one occasion. The first operational losses occurred on April 2, 1944. On this day NZ5054 and NZ5059 crashed and burned at Piva. On April 4 while three replacement aircraft were being ferried to Piva one (BuAer 28452 coded '176') became separated and was last reported as ditching.

The pilot, FO Leslie McLellan-Symonds died on May 25, 1944 of toxemia in a POW camp near Rabaul . On April 17 NZ5050 went missing on an operation against Lakunai Airstrip. Last seen over the target, it was believed to have been shot down with the loss of P/O Geoffrey Cray and W/O Frank Bell. NZ5058 was written off after the same mission due to damage from anti-aircraft fire. The final loss was NZ5051 which crashed in Greet Harbor during another attack on Lakunai, probably due to anti-aircraft fire. The crew were F/L Jack Edwards and W/O Louis Hoppe.

On the same mission, a 30 Squadron TBF-1c, NZ2541, was lost under similar circumstances. The last two replacement aircraft appear to have joined the squadron around April 25, 1944. The last operation was carried out on May 17, 1944. The surviving aircraft were then returned to the USMC at Renarde Field in the Russell Islands on May 20th.

The 22 crews are reported to have averaged 95 hours each on operations. On return the aircraft on average had accumulated 120 hours flying and were reportedly in 'as new' condition, which reflected highly on the activities of 25 SU. The squadron was unique in New Zealand service, in that crews were assigned to particular aircraft. This gave rise to some distinctive aircraft decoration. Having completed an eight week tour, 25 Squadron were returned to New Zealand and the Squadron disbanded on June 19th. (The Squadron was reformed at Ardmore on October 30, 1944 as a fighter unit).

The New Zealand based SBD-3 and SBD-4 aircraft were passed to 26 Squadron for training at Seagrove. However, a decision to cancel the A-24 allocation in favor of further fighters saw the unit disbanded after only two weeks. The final training loss occurred on January 19, 1944 when NZ5004 failed to get airborne from Ardmore and the aircraft operated by a 26 Squadron pilot swung off the runway into a ditch. Subsequent investigation found the controls were in a locked position.

The SBD aircraft were used during January and February 1944 to train replacement aircrew for 25 Squadron before being placed in storage at Hobsonville. Seagrove then closed as a training base, becoming a satellite field for Ardmore. Three Dauntless aircraft were utilized as instructional airframes (NZ5009 to INST91 and NZ5018 to INST92 at TTS Nelson, and NZ5016 to INST110). As well as the two SBDs lost in training accidents, three more aircraft were handed back to the USN in June 1944. The remainder were sold for scrap in 1948.

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Egypt Nile River Cruises

Egypt Nile River Cruises are a timeless adventure that beckons travelers to explore the legendary waterway that has shaped the history and culture of Egypt for millennia. From the bustling streets of Cairo to the serene temples of Upper Egypt, these cruises offer a glimpse into the country's storied past while providing modern comforts and conveniences.

The journey typically begins in Luxor, where travelers board luxurious vessels equipped with spacious cabins, gourmet dining, and panoramic observation decks. As the ship sets sail, passengers are treated to uninterrupted views of the Nile's fertile banks, dotted with palm groves, ancient ruins, and vibrant villages.

One of the highlights of Egypt Nile River Cruises is a visit to the Valley of the Kings, where the tombs of pharaohs such as Tutankhamun and Ramses II lie hidden in the desert cliffs. Guided tours reveal the intricate hieroglyphs and colorful murals that adorn the walls of these ancient burial chambers, offering insight into the beliefs and customs of ancient Egypt.

As the cruise continues southward, travelers have the opportunity to explore the temples of Kom Ombo and Edfu, dedicated to the gods Sobek and Horus respectively. These well-preserved monuments provide a window into Egypt's religious practices and architectural achievements, with towering pylons, towering columns, and elaborately decorated sanctuaries.

In Aswan, the southernmost point of many Egypt Nile River Cruises, passengers can marvel at the engineering marvel of the High Dam and the tranquil beauty of the Temple of Philae, which was relocated to its current location to save it from the rising waters of Lake Nasser. Optional excursions may also include visits to the Nubian villages, where travelers can learn about the unique culture and traditions of this ancient civilization.

In conclusion, Egypt Nile River Cruises offer an unforgettable journey through the heart of Egypt, where history, culture, and natural beauty converge along the banks of the legendary Nile. Whether exploring ancient temples, cruising past rural landscapes, or simply relaxing on deck as the timeless river unfolds before them, passengers are sure to cherish the memories of their Nile cruise for years to come.

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Cape Cod Trip added bonus Maine and Rhode Island

4 Day & 6 Day Adventures

Trip 1 Cape Cod, Plymouth, P-town, Martha’s Vineyard

September Trip 2020 4 days

Stayed in an Air b&b at Yarmouth

Day 1 Plymouth Rock and Pilgrim Memorial State Park.

When the first settlers first stepped onto land here, they did so because of the protected bay. Early in the 18th century, nearly a century after the landing, one of their descendants identified a certain rock as the place of that first landing. The famed rock, which has been broken, moved, and put back together, now sits at the seashore protected under a classical columned canopy.

The Mayflower II the tall masts of Mayflower II rise above her decks, a reminder of how this all started. Built in England during the early 1950s, the ship arrived in Plymouth in 1957 and today serves as an important way to relate the tale of European settlement in America. As well as can be determined, the ship is a full-scale replica of the original.

Day 2 Martha’s Vineyard Daytrip

Steamship authority vineyard: ferries to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.

We started at Oak Buffs were we rented an e-bike. The six-mile bike ride from Oak Bluffs to Edgartown is known for being a gorgeous and manageable ride, including riding over Jaws Bridge!

Oaks buff is known for its distinctive Victorian architecture with 300 colorful cottages designed to look like gingerbread houses.

We continued to Edgartown, with its quaint harbor complete with an 80-year-old lighthouse. A former hub for the whaling industry, admire the stately Greek revival mansions built by ship captains.

We Traveled along the idyllic countryside and small fishing villages. We then took a taxi the technicolor cliffs of Aquinnah.

The Aquinnah Cliffs – formerly known as Gay Head – is one of Martha's Vineyard's most-visited tourist spots, with bus and bike tours congesting the paved roads in the peak summer season. But the epic clay cliffs, which were carved by glaciers millions of years ago, are worth the trek. Visitors can explore the lower beach paths to see the cliffs up close and stretch along the sands at Moshup Beach. Or take the upper trails to the top of the cliffs to catch a glimpse of Gay Head Light and nearby Elizabeth Islands.

The Aquinnah Cliffs are part of the island's Wampanoag reservation and under special environmental protections to deter erosion.

Day 3 Cape cod waterways boat rental on swan river. Swan Pond River is Located right on the banks of the Swan River Cape Cod Waterways boat rentals offer four different boat models to choose from: Kayak, Stand Up Paddle Board, Canoe, and Pedal Boat rentals!

The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, was built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor.

Provincetown

Provincetown is at the northern tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. P-town is known as a longtime haven for artists, LGBTQ. Numerous galleries plus restaurants, nightclubs, cabarets and specialty shops are clustered on and around lively Commercial Street.

Long Point Lighthouse 5mile Trail

Begin at Pilgrim first landing park, walk over a jetty for a mile towards long point. Follow the shoreline towards a lighthouse. The first light was built in 1827 and became automatic in 1952.

Day 4 Pilmouth Plantation

Plimoth Patuxet is a complex of living history museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts founded in 1947, formerly Plimoth Plantation

The largest of which is the 17th-century English Village. On ground carefully chosen to reflect the topography of the Pilgrims' original settlement, and following the same street layout, the village authentically recreates the reality of those hard first years in the Plymouth Colony.

The following year we did a 5 day trip in July 2021

Trip 2 Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Gloucester, Cadem Hills State Park, Arcadia, Rhode Island (Newport).

July trip 6 days 2021

Day 1 Yarmouth July 10

Plymouth Rock, Provincetown and Plymouth first landing

MacMillan Wharf, 450-foot-long MacMillan Wharf. Aside from setting off on ferries and sightseeing tours, it is a picturesque spot to amble along and gaze out over the bay, boats and coastline.

Day 2 Martha’s Vineyard July 11

Ferry/bus we took the bus to the bridge that was made famous by the movie Jaws. We rented kayaks and stopped at the bridge to view locals and tourists jumping of the bridge.

Day 3 July 12 Whale watching Trips to Stellwagon bank marine Sanctuary

It encompasses 842-square-miles of some of the most productive ocean waters anywhere in the northwest Atlantic.

While the frequent presence of Humpback whales, Finback whales, Right whales and sometimes other endangered whale species no doubt gives the sanctuary its public appeal and worldwide recognition, this marine sanctuary was created in order to protect all of the great diversity of marine creatures that depend on these waters for all or part of their life cycle.

The sanctuary was named after its principal geologic feature: a shallow, underwater sandbar known as “Stellwagen Bank.” There is more to the sanctuary than just Stellwagen Bank, however. The sanctuary encompasses many other equally important areas; most notably “Jeffrey’s Ledge” which is just to the north of Stellwagen Bank itself.

You can think of Stellwagen Bank as a huge, underwater sandbar that it is about 24 miles long, 3-5 miles wide at its northern end, and just under 14 miles wide at its southern end. It rises above the surrounding seafloor to a height the equivalent of an 11-story building, with waters on top of the Bank ranging between 65 and 120 feet in depth and surrounding waters being between 250 and 350 feet deep.

Geologically speaking “The Bank” is an underwater extension of Cape Cod and this can clearly be seen in maps of the seafloor. As you can see in the map below, Stellwagen Bank is situated directly between Cape Ann and Cape Cod, a location that led many fishermen to refer to the area as “Middle Bank.”

Cadem Hills State Park camp out

Located a few minutes north of Camden on U.S. Route 1, the park offers year-round trail activities and camping. Winter camping, in a rustic shelter, is also offered and available by reservation by calling the park. 1.1 out and back trail, renowned for the panoramic view of Camden Harbor and Penobscot Bay from the top of Mt. Battie, which inspired Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Renascence," the park still inspires wonder in visitors today.

Mt Battie

Day 4 July 13 Hike & Acadia National park

After camping in Camden State park we stayed at an Air b&b right in town in southwest harbor, Me. It was 25 mins from Acadia National Park.

We did 2 trails, the first was a simply path along the coast call Ocean Path.

Ocean Path Distance 4 Miles out and back length of time 1.5-2.5 hours.

The second was Beehive loop Trail it is 1.4 miles , Strenuous hike, Length 1-2 hours. I do not recommend this for beginner hikers or young kids there are sections of narrow cliffs ledges and non technical climbs up metal rungs. My son was 5 at the time but we hike rock scrambles so he was trained well for this one. Def an amazing hike for advance hikers!

Day 5 July 14 Rhode Island

The next day we went back to Rode Island we stayed in an air b&b on a boathouse with such an amazing night view.

Day 6 July 15 Sunset mimosa Sail Newport

The next dat we drive 45 mins to Newport for a 75-minute sail highlighting 5 different lighthouses at the southern end of Narragansett Bay. few other points of interest around Newport Harbor and lower Narragansett Bay. We boarded the Schooner Adirondack II 80 foot turn of the century style pilot schooner.

For lunch we had reservations at the The morning Restaurant to enjoy New England Lobster. The Restaurant was located right in the wharf, with breath taking views of the harbor. I highlight recommend this restaurant!

Back home

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What are the pointers that should be kept in mind before buying premium flats in Gurgaon?

Premium Flats in Gurgaon cater to mid-luxury buyers. They are residence options for those who want to invest in homes offering premium and high-scale amenities beyond affordable housing’s upper limit. In the price bracket, they are considerably lower than luxury or ultra-luxury apartments which make them a top-favourite among a large group of upper-middle and upper stratifications of home buyers. Connectivity, external amenities, location, internal space and home designs should be at the apex of a buyer’s mind before buying premium flats in Gurgaon. Signature Global, a leading Delhi NCR realtor has a solid history of constructing and delivering such premium independent floors in Gurgaon.

 Most of the premium flats by this Group are independent floors and these are quite popular in Gurgaon. They are high on privacy and offer a secluded form of living independently which most home seekers desire at the latter stage of their lives. This developer firm offers low-density premium flats in Gurgaon in high-end corridors and low-pollution zones marked by good infrastructural connectivity. Few most in demand projects by this Group are mentioned below.

 Signature Global City 63A is a paragon of a perfect low-rise housing community built on an eco-friendly model. It is located on Golf Course Extension Road in Sector 63A. As per their preference, buyers can choose to invest in 2 or 3 BHK premium flats. The upside of investing in Signature Global City 63A is that it is located in the vicinity of cheaper travel modes, such as a proposed metro station, ensuring smooth transportation. Apart from robust road connectivity, these are the best premium flats in Gurgaon with great internal functionalities and amenities like Reflexology Garden, Senior Citizen Area, Gazebo, Seating Plaza, Open Gym, Basket Ball Court, Swimming Pool, Kids’ Pool, Pool Side Deck, Kids Play Area, Multi-Play Lawn, Amphitheatre, Fragrance Garden, Pets Park, Recreation Area, etc.

 Dwarka Expressway has become the newest and hottest investment zone for housing in the past couple of years. The property price appreciation has feasibly increased and raked in moolah for investors who have creamed the benefits post investing in the sub-city. Located at a 2-minute distance from Dwarka Expressway, Signature Global City 37D II is the legitimate definition of what experts call a ‘long-term investment with healthy future returns’. This project has been fashioned on a sustainable and eco-friendly building scheme. The project offers 2 & 3 BHK flats. Associated with a wide array of community-use features and as per the testimonials of the residents, it is one of the best premium flats in Gurgaon and residential societies across NCR.

 Signature Global City 92 has been certified as a green project. Spread across roughly 10 acres, it is a classic Signature Global residential project with 2-3 BHK room configurations. It has excellent connectivity with business districts and corporate zones of Manesar, Cyber City, Golf Course Extension Road, Dwarka Expressway, Sohna etc. Home buyers who decide to invest in this property can avail of amenities like Yoga and Meditation Lawn, Badminton Court, Butterfly Garden, Clubhouse and Skating Rink, among others. The other projects which are worth considering are covered under the Signature Global City banner, thereby denoting all of them are low-density independent floors. Signature Global City 81, Signature Global City 37D, Signature Global Park 4 & 5 and Signature Global Park are proud members of it.

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Oberoi Philae Luxury Nile Cruise

Oberoi Philae Luxury Nile Cruise

With its upper decks and internal passageways, the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise offers passengers a wonderful opportunity to take in the stunning landscape of the Nile banks and to visit the spectacular temples and tombs of the ancient civilization. Enjoy the people and the beautiful Nile riverbed. You are not on a sea, and the river is relatively quiet, so don't worry about getting seasick. In Egypt, you'll have a fantastic time.

Travelers can visit ancient sites in upper Egypt on luxurious Nile cruises. Start your sightseeing trips by going to the High Dam, which was built to manage flooding between 1960 and 1970. Then, pay a visit to the Philae Temple, which the Roman Emperors completed after Ptolemy II started construction on it. You can finally go to the Unfinished Obelisk.

Nile cruises in Egypt, Taking a tour around Luxor is fantastic. There are a variety of tours available, including trips to the East and West Banks of the Nile, Luxor Nile Cruise Tours, Dendera and Abydos Temple Tours from Luxor, Luxor Hot Air Balloon Tours, Karnak Sound and Light Show, and Luxor Museum Tours, among others.

Day 1 El Bar El Sharqi Tour- Karnak and Luxor temples - Nile Cruise tours

Arrive at Luxor International Airport or train terminal, met and assist by WorldTouradvice voyage manager and escorted to board your luxury Oberoi Philae Nile cruise. dazzling locales, luxurious accommodations, luscious cuisine, glamorous shipmates, and fawning wait staff, Starting the cruise holiday by  Relishing a luscious lunch aboard, then start your guided tours to explore Luxor sightseeing with a tour to the monumental temple complex at karnak. strolling through this gorgeous open-air museum and into the Great Court into the Great Hypostyle hall of 134 columns towering above its visitors like an antique forest. Stir to Luxor Temple through two kilometers avenues of sphinxes, the royal processional route that once joined Luxor and karnak temples .The prominent temple of Luxor devoted to the god Amun Ra

Accommodation in Luxury cabin in Philae Oberoi cruise

Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 2 Luxor West Bank Tours - Nile Cruise Tours

Start your day of exploration with an excursion to the famous location of ( El Bar El Gharbi ) where over 64 tombs for pharaohs and nobles on the West Bank of the Nile. First tour to the dazzling tombs in valley of kings and exploring the stunning and mysterious tomb of king Tutankhamun, then enjoy the most vibrant colors and drawings of the burial chamber of Ramses "the six" (included), Proceed to Dier El Medina, the spot of an amazing special workmen’s Village, whose craftsmen erected and adorned the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings and Madinet Habu temple. Then free time for a photo-stop at the massive colossi of Memnon, Twin statues of Amenhotep III. Sailing south to Edfu via Esna lock. Overnight: Esna

Accommodation in Luxury cabin in Philae Oberoi cruise

Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 3 Kom Ombo and Edfu Tours

Relish the cool Nile from Luxor to Edfu to explore Edfu Temple, a temple which is devoted to Horus the falcon –headed sun god .This is one of the most attractive protected temples surviving in Egypt. Proceed sailing to Kom Ombo and a tour to the temple unambiguously dedicated to two gods – Horus the Elder represented as falcon and the crocodile headed Sobek. Actually, crocodiles were preserved in the temple and some mummies of crocodiles are on show. Overnight: Aswan

Accommodation in Luxury cabin in Philae Oberoi cruise

Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 4 Aswan Sightseeing Tours

Relish sunny and luscious breakfast on board, Enjoy your Aswan sightseeing tours with a visit to the famed ( El Sad el aali ) Aswan High Dam, then proceed with a motor boat trip to visit Philae temple devoted to the goddess Isis of the dazzling Philae Island.The temple dismantled, recollected and relocated when the High Dam was built 1960. Relish a palatable lunch on board, proceed your excursions into the history and culture of the Nubian land located in South Egypt. Most of  Nubian temples were protected in partnership with Unesco to save the monuments and heritage of the Nubian from the flooding of Lake Nasser when Aswan high dam was erected in the 1960

Accommodation in Luxury cabin in Philae Oberoi cruise

Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 5 Aswan Opt Tour to Abu Simbel, Good Bye Nile Cruise

Disembarkation from your Philae cruise after your sumptuous breakfast, free time at leisure or alternatively opting tour from Aswan to Abu Simbel to witness the majesty of the twins temples of Ramses II and his wife, Queen Nefertari .The two hewn-rock temples of Abu Simbel were erected and devoted to King Ramses II and are an incredible sight to behold. The entire site was disassembled and moved to its current location to save it from the flood waters caused by the Aswan High Dam. Transfer from Philae cruise to Aswan airport or station for final departure.

Accommodation in Luxury cabin in Philae Oberoi cruise

Breakfast

Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise 07 days / 06 nights - Luxor / Aswan

Day 1 Nile cruise tours from Luxor to Dendera

Upon arrival at Luxor International Airport, or Train terminal you will be met and assist by World Tour Advice voyage manager and escorted to board your luxury Philae Oberoi Nile cruise. Relish luscious lunch meal on-board as you sailing to Qena before going on to the gorgeous Temple of goddess Hathor at Dendera. Hathor is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who represented the principles of gladness, womanish love. Overnight in Qena.

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) - Breakfast

Day 2 Nile cruise Holiday - Tour from Luxor to Abydos

Today is time to explore Abydos, Drive to the north accompanied by your masterly tour guide to Abydos, The dazzling temple of Seti I and home to “The Cult of Osiris”.Abydos A city north of dendera, capital of the eighth nome, called the Thinite nome, Abydos was considered the greatest of all cemeteries and home to the god osiris, It was believed to be the place where Osiris was buried. The paintings of the Gods and Pharaohs on the walls of the Osiris Temple at Abydos are among the most stunning protected in Egypt and it contains an inscription to the kings list. Back to cruise to relish Lunch meal served on the Oberoi Philae, then enjoy the changeable landscape whilst the cruise ship sail back to Luxor. Late this afternoon, tour to Luxor Museum, to marvel the objects that were collected from the tomb of Tutankhamun (horse-carriage, weapons as well as several exhibits).

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Day 3 Nile Cruise - Luxor Sightseeing Tours

Relish sunny luscious breakfast, Morning free for leisure, then bask in the sun in wonderful atmosphere- Beautifully surrounding, Then relish an exquisite lunch aboard & start scouting Luxor with a tour to the monumental temple complex at karnak. Strolling through this dazzling open-air museum and into the Great Court into the Great Hypostyle hall of 134 columns towering above all visitors like an antique forest of stones. As the sun starts to set stroll over to Luxor Temple via 2 kilometers routes of sphinxes , the royal processional road that links luxor and karnak temples and relish the unparalleled experience of walking through its floodlit colonnades. Overnight: Luxor

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Day 4 Nile Cruise - Luxor West bank Sightseeing Tours

Unleash your inner explorer by a tour to the dazzling location of over 64 tombs for pharaohs and nobles in  ( El Bar El Gharbi ) Luxor West Bank of the Nile, where you visit the famed tombs of the valley of kings ( wadi el Melouk ) and witness the beauty and mystery of king Tutankhamun, Ramses "the six" (included),then proceed to the rock-cut temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only female pharaoh, rising out of the desert plain in a series of terraces. Enjoy free time for leisure and photo-stop at the massive colossi of Memnon, impressive statues of Amonhetep III.Cruising  south to Edfu via Esna lock. Overnight: Esna

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Day 5 Nile Cruise - Luxor West bank Sightseeing Tours

Enjoy the cool breeze of the river Nile whilst sailing to Edfu to visit the Temple of Horus the falcon –headed sun god .Horus temple at Edfu is one of the most beautifully protected temples surviving in Egypt. Proceed to Kom Ombo to visit the temple uniquely dedicated to two gods – Horus the Elder and the crocodile headed Sobek. In fact, crocodiles were kept in the temple and some mummified remains are on show. Overnight: Aswan  Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Day 06: Aswan /Majestic Philae & Nubian Museum

Relish  breakfast on board, Start your Aswan sightseeing with a tour to the Aswan High Dam, then proceed with a motorboat tour to the Temple devoted to the goddess Isis of the stunning Philae Island.The temple dismantled, recollected and relocated when the High Dam was erected 1960.After lunch on board, proceeding your excursions into the history and heritage of Nubia land. The Nubian museum is established in partnership with Unesco to save the monuments and heritage of the Nubian from the flooding of Lake Nasser when a dam was built in the 1960

Accommodation: Stay  at the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise (Luxury Cabin) 

 Breakfast- lunch-dinner

Day 07:  Abu Simbel Opt tour

Disembarkation from your Philae cruise after your luscious breakfast, enjoy your free at leisure. Consider opting to Abu Simbel to witness the impressive twin temples of Ramses II and his wife, Queen Nefertari.The two rock temples of Abu Simbel were erected and devoted to King Ramses II and are an amazing sight to behold. The entire temples were disassembled and moved to their current location to save them from the flood waters caused by the Aswan High Dam. Return to Aswan airport or station for final departure.

5 Days/4 nights Aswan to Luxor Cruise

Day 1 : Aswan sightseeing Tours - The Nubian museum

Arrival at Aswan  Airport or station, Meet World Tour Advice Travel manager,transfer to the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise for check in, Relish a luscious Lunch on board, then afternoon visit Nubian museum by motor boat, Return to Nile cruise, Relax in luxurious accommodation impeccable service, elegantly appointed rooms and vibrant atmosphere dinner & overnight in Aswan

Accommodation in luxury cabin- Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 2 Aswan Sightseeing, Sailing to Kom Ombo - Edfu

Enjoy your tea & coffee with snacks then leave the Nile cruise to start a tour to Philae temple by motor boat, then visit swan high dam ( El Sad El aali ) which is considered one of the major architectural modern buildings of the world, Luscious breakfast on board, thereafter sailing to Kom Ombo, arrival to Kom Ombo, visit the twin temple devoted to the crocodile god Sobek & the falcon god Harpies, Enjoy lunch meal on board & sailing to Edfu, Bask in the sun , relaxation and enjoy your afternoon tea & enjoy cocktail reception with entertainment, arrival Edfu, dinner & overnight.

Day 3 Edfu tour from Philae Oberoi Nile cruise

Relish a luscious luxurious breakfast, leave the Nile cruise to scout temple of Edfu dedicated to Horus ( The falcon god ) by local carriages, Free time for shopping and walking in local markets,  visit the authentic life of the local and challenge your bargaining power at cottage handicraft shops,start sailing to Esna, lunch on board, then cross the Esna lock, proceed sailing to Luxor, dinner & overnight.

Day 4 Luxor West bank tours from Nile cruise

Relish a luscious breakfast, leave Philae Oberoi Nile cruise to unleash your inner explorer by visiting the valley of kings ( Wadi El Melouk ), including Tut Ankh Amon tomb & Ramsses 6th tomb, then proceed tours to scout Medinet Habu, Deir El Medina & colossi of Memnon, back to cruise to enjoy your lunch, in the afternoon visit Luxor temple, dinner on board and Overnight

Day 5 Luxor East Bank

Enjoy a tasty and healthy breakfast to kickstart your morning & check-out, at 8:30 a.m, Tour to explore Karnak complex of temples, the famous forest of columns, the antique zoo and the holy lake, then direct transfer to Luxor airport or railway station for your final departure.

Day 5 

7 days/6 nights Aswan to Luxor

Day 1 : Aswan sightseeing Tours - The Nubian museum

Arrival at Aswan  Airport or station, Meet World Tour Advice Travel manager,transfer to the Oberoi Philae Nile Cruise for check in, Relish a luscious Lunch on board, then afternoon visit Nubian museum, Return to Nile cruise, Relax in luxurious accommodation impeccable service, elegantly appointed rooms and vibrant atmosphere dinner & overnight in Aswan

Accommodation in luxury cabin- Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 2 Kom Ombo temple Tour & Nile cruise

Start Sailing to Kom ombo, have a tasty breakfast to kickstart your morning, Cruising the Nile will reveal countless landmarks, breathtaking scenery, arrival Kom ombo & tour to the temple devoted to the crocodile god sobek & the falcon god harooreis, See the crocodiles mummies, Kom Ombo temple is the place where in ancient times sacred crocodiles bask in the sun on the riverside, sailing back to aswan, Relish luscious lunch on board, leave the Nile cruise & explore Egypt recent history by a tour to visit Aswan high dam & Philae temple by motor boat, Your guide will tell you about a tragedy of life and death!water and gold when he explaining for you the drama of building the high dam and saving few temples such as Philae temple and Abu Simbel temple, enjoy cocktail reception on board, dinner & overnight.

Accommodation in luxury cabin- Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 3 Nile Cruise Tours to Edfu

Sailing to Edfu, relish a luscious breakfast to kickstart your day, cruise through wonderful scenic sight, enjoy Lunch on board, arrival Edfu & visit the temple dedicated to Horus, then continue sailing to Esna, dinner & overnight.

Accommodation in luxury cabin- Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 4 Nile Cruise - Luxor Tour

Proceed Sailing to Luxor, The setting is breathtakingly beautiful, the Nile flowing between the modern city and west-bank necropolis, backed by the enigmatic Theban escarpment. Scattered across the landscape is an embarrassment of riches, breakfast on board, arriva Luxor, take your lunch & leave the Nile cruise to visit Karnak temple which includes the sacred lake & Luxor temple, back to cruise, dinner & overnight.

Accommodation in luxury cabin- Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner meals

Day 5 Luxor West Bank & Dendera Nile cruise tours

Relish an early breakfast, leave the cruise to explore what is ( Wadi Biban el Moluk in Luxor )It is the Kings’ valley where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, rock cut tombs were excavated for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom including the child king Tutankhamun’s tomb, proceed to visit Madinet Habu, Der el madina & the twin colossi of Memnon, Relish lunch on board & sailing to Qena, arrival in the afternoon & visiting temple of Dendera, dinner & overnight in Qena.

Day 6 Abydos and Luxor temples tour from Nile cruise

Relish a pleasant breakfast, start tour to scout  temple of Abydos,Today, Abydos is notable for the memorial temple of Seti I, which contains an inscription from the nineteenth dynasty known to the modern world as the Abydos King List. It is a chronological list showing cartouches of most dynastic pharaohs of Egypt from Menes until Seti I's father,then sail to Luxor, lunch on board, in the afternoon visit Luxor temple, dinner & overnight in Luxor.

Day 7 Final departure - End of Nile cruise Holiday

Relish a luscious breakfast, leave Philae Oberoi Nile cruise direct transfer to Luxor airport or railway station for final departure.

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DIGIMON ADVENTURE / 02 / tri. ~ ~ FRAMING / PARALLELS ~ LOCATIONS

Tokyo Bay / Odaiba waterfront{s} Rainbow Bridge / On + Under {Bridges} / Near water TV TOKYO / Fuji Television {+“Toei Headquarters”} Tokyo Big Sight {the Convention Center}* {*where the Adventure Chosen originally faced off against Vamdemon}, (ALSO as seen in Adventure & Tri), and more

{Note: the remainder of this image set will contain spoilery scenery, mainly from “Saikai”, “Ketsui”, and “Kokuhaku”, however, “Bokura no Mirai” moments pre-the most major part of the final battle also show. Major spoilers are indicated (in comparison images only) after the final note mentioning real-world connections to Digimon - feel free to close your eyes and scroll there a bit, as there are major spoilers for final moments of “Bokura no Mirai” as well as “LAST EVOLUTION: Kizuna”.} [The rest are mainly scenes indicating scenery, {and some early plot moments with Daigo Nishijima & Maki Himekawa} However, the start of the section on the bridge also shows the “setting” modified as of Bokura no Mirai’s start.]

{The following info via / credit to : Wiki article, “Odaiba”} (Some scenes used may show “general” views but are meant to show a similar feeling / comparison. Many show the exact {or close} locations indicated.) The Rainbow Bridge (レインボーブリッジ, Reinbō Burijji) is a suspension bridge crossing northern Tokyo Bay between Shibaura Pier and the Odaiba waterfront development in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

It was built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, with construction starting in 1987 and completed in 1993. The bridge is 798 m (2,618 ft) long with a main span of 580 m (1,903 ft). Officially called the "Shuto Expressway No. 11 Daiba Route - Port of Tokyo Connector Bridge," the name "Rainbow Bridge" was decided by the public.

The towers supporting the bridge are white in color, designed to harmonize with the skyline of central Tokyo seen from Odaiba. There are lamps placed on the wires supporting the bridge, which are illuminated into three different colors, red, white and green every night using solar energy obtained during the day.

{in Bokura no Mirai} [mid-end], it’s now...:

The Rainbow Bridge carries three transportation lines on two decks. The upper deck carries the Shuto Expressway's Daiba Route, while the lower deck carries the Yurikamome rapid transit system in the centre, walkways on the outer side, and Tokyo Prefectural Route 482 in-between.

{Showing Meiko around.}

The bridge has two separate walkways on the north and south sides of the lower deck; the north side offers views of the inner Tokyo harbour and Tokyo Tower, while the south side offers views of Tokyo Bay and occasionally Mount Fuji. The walkways may only be used during certain hours (9 am to 9 pm in the summer; 10 am to 6 pm in the winter, access to the walkways close 30 minutes before closing time.)

{the Bridge at sunset}: [Koushiro Izumi & Takeru Takaishi] (note the background):

Tokyo Bay (東京湾, Tōkyō-wan) is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture. Tokyo Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Uraga Channel. Its old name was Edo Bay (江戸湾, Edo-wan). The Tokyo Bay region is both the most populous and largest industrialized area in Japan.

In ancient times, Japanese knew Tokyo Bay as the uchi-umi (内海) or "inner sea". By the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568–1600) the area had become known as Edo Bay, a reference to the city of Edo. The bay took its present name of Tokyo Bay in modern times, after the Imperial court moved to Edo and renamed the city Tokyo in 1868.

Many artificial islands were built as naval fortifications in the Meiji and Taishō periods. After World War II these islands were converted to residential or recreational use. Odaiba, also known as Daiba, was one of six artificial islands constructed in 1853 as a fortification to protect the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo, and was known as the Shinagawa Daiba. After World War II Odaiba was incorporated into Tokyo and redeveloped for commercial and recreational use.

Before World War II, Yumenoshima was planned as an airfield (one of the largest in the world at the time), but after the U.S. military expansion of Haneda Airport following World War II, the plan of the airfield fell through. (The island briefly opened as a public beach before being repurposed and used as a landfill between 1957 and 1967 to dispose of the large quantities of garbage from the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. The reclaimed land now hosts Yumenoshima Park with numerous recreational facilities.)

Odaiba (お台場) today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and has developed since the 1990s as a major commercial, residential and leisure area. Odaiba, along with Minato Mirai 21 in Yokohama, is among a few manmade seashores in Tokyo Bay where the waterfront is accessible, and not blocked by industry and harbor areas.

(Note the background, right-hand side, below): [See?] {Kokuhaku} [Takeru speaks with Meiko.]

The area started coming back to life in the late 1990s as a tourist and leisure zone, with several large hotels and shopping malls. Several large companies including Fuji Television moved their headquarters to the island, and transportation links improved with the connection of the Rinkai Line into the JR East railway network in 2002 and the eastward extension of the Yurikamome to Toyosu in 2006.

{”Fuji Television”esque headquarters is where the Adventure Chosen fight their initial battle against Vamdemon. Yamato’s father also works here; Koushiro briefly tried to infiltrate it earlier on & found Yamato’s father, Koushiro then explained to Yamato’s father about the Digimon.

[Note the background, below]: [See]?

It is briefly destroyed during the battle against Vamdemon, Toei often continues to joke about the fact in interviews to this day, as Toei’s headquarters were located WITHIN the building as well. (They joked about having to ask permission to destroy it!):

{It is also as seen prominent in scenery during the 1st Tri movie. Meicoomon can be seen HIDING in the distance.}

{and makes an ominous reappearance in Bokura no Mirai, above.}

Tokyo Big Sight, the convention center originally built to house Governor Suzuki's planned intercity convention, also became a major venue for international expositions.

Odaiba, the Rainbow Bridge, and other parts of the surrounding area are a major setting of the Digimon Adventure franchise.

The area is noted in many major areas of the plot.

{It’s very interesting, what a big part real world-based locations can play in the story...! (No matter which writers are involved!)}:

{And even in eerily similar fashions, even in later spin offs...} [“Nice PASS!”] [“Shoot!”]

[Note: the following leads in to a mid-series final battle moment from 2020’s reboot!]:

{Almost like as if There are, possibly certain storytelling patterns to it, and a great respect for the real world areas the story is based within.}

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SMS Kammerjäger

 Key/Definitions

*(NUMBER x NUMBER) 1st number is number of gunpods (turrets), 2nd number is how many guns per turret.

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*(NUMBERx) total amount of guns

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*(Belt armour)

Belt armour is the main side armor on a warship.

Diagram of common elements of warship armor. The belt armor is on the exterior, at the waterline. Also indicated is the main deck, the sloping deck armor, and the torpedo bulkhead

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*(Armored citadel)

An armoured citadel is an armoured box enclosing the machinery and magazine spaces, formed by the armoured deck, the waterline belt, and the transverse bulkheads.

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*(Sloped armour)

Simply sloping a piece of armour inherently increases its effectiveness by increasing the distance a projectile must travel to penetrate it. It also increases the odds that a projectile will ricochet off the target without causing damage.

*(Torpedo bulkhead)

A torpedo bulkhead is common on the more heavily armoured warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century. It is designed to keep the ship afloat even if the hull was struck underneath the belt armour by a shell or by a torpedo.

After the lessons learned during World War I, many capital ships were refitted with double, triple, or even quadruple torpedo bulkheads, as well as anti-torpedo bulges to the exterior of the hull. For example, the last US battleship designs during World War II had up to four torpedo bulkheads and a triple-bottom. The innermost bulkhead is commonly referred to as the holding bulkhead, and often this bulkhead would be manufactured from high tensile steel that could deform and absorb the pressure pulse from a torpedo hit without breaking. If the final bulkhead was at least 37 mm thick, it may also be referred to as an armoured bulkhead, as it would be capable of stopping splinters and shells with low striking velocities.

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SMS Kammerjäger

Class: Kammerjager (exterminator)

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Place of origin: Terra, Germany

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Armament:

(1x)  Weltuntergangsprophet 230cm (90 in) SK/38 Cannon

(88x)  112cm (44in) SK C/6 Naval gun (44 x 2)

(44x)  38cm (15in) SK C/34 Naval gun (12 x 4)

(112x)  10mm SRAAL (Short Range Anti Air Laser)

(92x)  20mm LRAAL (Long Range Anti Air Laser)

(356x)  2 cm Flakvierling 38

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1420mm Depleted uranium belt armour

1000mm Hull armour

Sextuple torpedo bulkheads

Krupp homogeneous depleted uranium lead lined citadel

1900mm underbelly plating

300mm harshly angled steel add on side Armour

1730mm upper deck plating

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Length: 3,263 ft 6in long

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Beam: 600 ft 6in

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Draft: 100ft 6 in

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Installed power: Supersized Nuclear cold star absorbing reactors (feeds on intense radiation waves of all kinds, and the dead cores of planets)

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Propulsion: Krupp cold star propulsion jets (14x)

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Speed: 26 knots (29 mph)

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 Crew complement: 6,530 total, 312 officers, 6,218 enlisted men and women.

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General description: 

The deadliest ship in the galaxy. She is the only one of her class, no other ship in the current universe could ever hope to match her armor or firepower. Her armor is impenetrable to any form of kinetic weaponry, and in testing, a 3,000 trillion watt hyper focused beam took 8 hours to even make a dent in the side armor, and a whole day to finally melt through and eventually breach the inside. She withstood crushing depths deeper than the human location of “challenger deep” for a whole day on the planet “alpha 4546b”, before testers eventually gave up and raised her. 

Her mighty guns go through all but the thickest armour, Her HE shell blasting straight through a Xyr flagship class dreadnought. Not a single thing stood in the way of this mechanical nightmare.

The centerpiece of this beast is a mighty cannon, mounted in front of the superstructure. The total diameter of the bore of the gun is 230cm, or 90 inches. The gun can’t use anything other than HE, as the experimental APHE tore the test hull in half from the sheer muzzle velocity of the projectile. 

The armour is blasted black in almost every area, save for a few select spots. The appearance is that of a supersized Ungetum class dreadnought, with harshly angled side armor, and a massive black steel human skull with tentacles crawling out of its eyes and mouth sits at the head of the ship as a figurehead.

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Alright I’m done, I’m not a professional writer, please bear that in mind, describing things in huge detail is really fucken hard with adhd, please leave constructive criticism in the replys. 

As always kamerades, thank you for reading, have a good one. 

#humans are crazy #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are insane #dreadnought #this thing would suck absolute ass IRL

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Sydney Houses: NSW Properties, Residences

Sydney Homes, NSW Houses, New South Wales Property Designs, Residence Photos

Sydney Houses : NSW Properties

New South Wales Property Developments, Contemporary Australian Homes

post updated 31 Jul 2021

Sydney House – Latest Property Additions

New South Wales Properties – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

17 Jul 2021 Stealth House, Hunters Hill

22 Jun 2021 Kingsford House

22 Apr 2021 Coast House Design: Luke Moloney Architecture photograph © Tom Ferguson Coast House A single-storey cottage overlooking the ocean received a new first floor to take advantage of spectacular coastal views. An economical design tailors simple materials to make a comfortable home for a busy couple with young children.

16 Feb 2021 McLeod House Design: Ian Moore Architects photograph © Daniel Mayne McLeod House The four-bedroom McLeod House is located on a ridge above Sydney’s Middle Harbour, with significant district views as well as a distant view to Chatswood in the west. Officially it is alterations and additions to a 1970’s house, as 30% of the original house had to be retained to allow the house to retain it’s floor area, height and location on the site, all of which exceeded new planning controls for the area.

8 Feb 2021 Dodds House Design: Ian Moore Architects photograph © Daniel Mayne Dodds House This restoration of a one-bedroom house designed by Ian Moore in 1998 and completed in 2001, which had been unsympathetically altered by a previous owner.

17 Feb 2021 Hastings van Nunen House

3 Dec 2020 Escu House

23 Nov 2020 Chimney House

16 Nov 2020 Mosman White House

5 Nov 2020 House Anand

19 Oct 2020 Eagle’s Nest, Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales Architects: Ian Bennett Design Studio photo : Clinton Weaver Eagle’s Nest, Collaroy Plateau Perched high on a prominent escarpment in the highest level of bushfire attack; Flame Zone, Eagle’s Nest aspires to balance and curate the experience of outlook and expansiveness of site, with privacy and seclusion. The restrained material palette heightens this experience of site, landscape and built form along with the changing dynamic of light and shade.

20 Sep 2020 Pindimar Lake House, NSW

4 Sep 2020 Next Generation House in Pittwater, NSW

28 Aug 2020 Oye Mi Canto House, Carriageworks cultural precinct, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Design: CplusC Architectural Workshop photo : Murray Fredericks Oye Mi Canto House An alterations and additions project on a terrace-house located in the leafy suburban streets of Sydney’s Newtown, nestled into a narrow site backing onto the Carriageworks cultural precinct.

14 July 2020 A+C Residence in Seaforth

29 June 2020 The Waterfront Retreat, Newport, New South Wales, Australia Architecture: Koichi Takada Architects photo : Tom Ferguson Photography The Waterfront Retreat Newport, NSW The Waterfront Retreat is the epitome of an Australian dream home, adorned with a private beach, garden and open-plan living. Responding the clients’ brief – a house offering sanctuary and entertainment, the Waterfront Retreat is designed to allow nature to lead, offering maximum seclusion and connection to its surrounds and outlook.

23 June 2020 Hart House, Great Mackerel Beach, New South Wales Design: Casey Brown Architecture photo : Rhys Holland House on Great Mackerel Beach, NSW This new property is located on the idyllic shoreline of Great Mackerel Beach, and was conceived as a contemporary interpretation of the quintessential one-room Australian beach shack. The form was derived from a wrapped ‘box’ open to one side.

17 June 2020 Blackwood Residence, Clovelly, eastern Sydney Architects: McGregor Westlake Architecture photo : Brett Boardman Blackwood Residence in Clovelly This NSW residence is a recently finished alteration and addition to a house in Boundary Street, Clovelly.

8 June 2020 St Peters House II Architects: Kreis Grennan Architecture photo : Douglas Frost St Peters House II in Suburbian West Sydney The St Peters House II is built at the rear of a narrow lot in the Sydney suburb of St Peters. The client’s backyard provided a new site for his freestanding home. The original dwelling remained, creating additional accommodation and a sensible approach to increased urban residential density.

19 May 2020 YrdPods Architects: Kreis Grennan Architecture photo : Douglas Frost YrdPod Garden House YrdPods are a type of tiny homes that makes architecture accessible for everyone. They are not the type of tiny houses on wheels, but a permanent structure located in backyards.

19 May 2020 New House in Clovelly Architects: Modscape photo : John Madden New House in Clovelly, Sydney

9 Mar 2020 Infinity House, Curl Curl Architect: CplusC Architectural Workshop photographers : Murray Fredericks and Simon Whitbread Infinity House in Curl Curl This new NSW property is an exercise in material, time, and cost efficiency. A specific project brief included two bedrooms with built-in robes, bathroom/laundry, an open plan dining, kitchen, living space, and a deck.

5 Mar 2020 Tennyson Point House Architects: CplusC Architectural Workshop photograph : Murray Fredericks Tennyson Point House Working within the bones of a solid, well-constructed water front home built in the 1960s on Parramatta River, the adaptive reuse of this multi-level dwelling involved various changes. All the internal workings of the existing structure were removed, the central circulation core was re-invigorated, light and cross ventilation was developed, and the waterfront outlook reinforced.

2 Mar 2020 Porter St Ryde Apartments, Shepherds Bay, Meadowbank Precinct, Ryde, New South Wales Architects: Glyde_Bautovich photograph : Atelier Illume Porter St Ryde Apartments in Sydney, NSW Planning approval obtained for this new residential project within City of Ryde’s Shepherds Bay, Meadowbank Precinct.

4 Feb 2020 Townhouses on Tamarama, Upper North Shore, NSW Architects: David Mitchell Architects and Chapman Architecture photograph : Michael Nicholson Tamarama Townhouses NSW, Upper North Shore Three luxury properties on Tamarama’s waterfront have been designed to cut into the slope of the site’s natural landform allowing the building to open generously to the view as it simultaneously bunkers down to the landform.

29 Jan 2020 The Balcony House in Newtown

29 Jan 2020 Copper Top House in Mosman

17 Jan 2020 Iron Maiden House in Longueville, New South Wales

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Sydney Houses in 2019

5 Dec 2019 Balmoral House in Mosman

17 Nov 2019 Beachside Sanctuary House in Mona Vale

9 Jul 2019 Fundamental House in Annangrove

30 May 2019 Clovelly house, eastern suburbs of Sydney Architects: Rolf Ockert Design photograph from architects Clovelly house Having seen some of our earlier work the owners of this extraordinary oceanfront site invited us to submit ideas about what a new house there could look like.

14 Apr 2019 Taylors Bay House in Mosman, NSWW

4 Apr 2019 Avoca Beach Beach House, Avoca Beach, Central Coast, NSW Architects: Architecture Saville Isaacs photograph : Kata Bayer Beach House in NSW The core idea of people living and engaging with place is an underlying principle of this architecture practice, given expression in the manner in which this home engages with the exterior, not in a general expansive nod to view, but in a varied and intimate manner.

2 Apr 2019 Twin Houses Architects: Architecture Saville Isaacs photograph : Kata Bayer Twin Houses in Sydney Responding to the irregular site boundary and contextual differences, the houses take on different yet complementary forms. No.2 presents a street façade of sensually curved brick mass with window penetrations.

27 Mar 2019 Garden House Architects: James Design Studio photograph : Simon Whitbread Garden House in New South Wales A new home in the upper north shore using vernacular forms and gables defined by differing materials with a link in the middle giving a glimpse of what lies beyond while providing a framework for privacy.

3 Mar 2019 Wentworth House, Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia Architects: MHN. Design Union photo : Brett Boardman Wentworth House in Vaucluse, NSW Wentworth House is located on the southern ridges of Sydney Harbour at the crest of a gully which feeds into Vaucluse Bay.

13 Feb 2019 International Lodge Apartment Design: Ian Moore Architects photo : Iain D. Mackenzie International Lodge Apartment, NSW International Lodge is a Harry Seidler designed apartment building in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, completed in 1962. The building was designed as compact 40 square metre 1 bedroom and 29 square metre studio apartments.

2 Feb 2019 Tamarama House, Upper North Shore Architects: Modscape photo courtesy of architects Tamarama House in NSW Located just a few minutes’ walk from the beach, this elegant home in Tamarama, NSW is beautifully detailed to create a sophisticated, functional, light-filled family home.

31 Jan 2019 Earth Wind and Fire – The Village House, Upper North Shore Architects: Luigi Rosselli Pty Ltd photo © Justin Alexander New House in Upper North Shore Earth is one of the oldest construction materials known to man; it can be fired, as with bricks and tiles, or used in its raw state as with adobe or rammed earth.

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Sydney Houses in 2018

1 Nov 2018 Sunrise House, South Coast, NSW Architects: MCK Architecture & Interiors photograph : Michael Nicholson Photography South Coast NSW Home A robust yet finely articulated home arranged as a collection of positive and negative spaces, opens up completely to its immediate landscape, or shuts down as the coastal weather turns.

7 Oct 2018 Hidden Studio, Byron Bay, northeastern New South Wales Design: Harley Graham Architects photo : Andy MacPherson Byron Bay House Nestled into rainforest on a 20acre property in Coopers Shoot Byron Bay, ‘Hidden Studio’ by Harley Graham Architects is a private sanctuary with views over the hinterland and Pacific Ocean beyond.

16 May 2018 North Curl Curl House Architect: Rolf Ockert photo © Luke Butterly North Curl Curl House The clients fulfilled their dream to live by the beach when they bought one half of a new subdivision of a double size block on a quiet street with great views across the road to the lagoon and beach of North Curl Curl.

25 Apr 2018 Escarpment House, Gerringong, Illawarra region, New South Wales, Australia Architects: ATELIER ANDY CARSON photograph : Michael Nicholson New House in Gerringong This modest two bed guest house explores the vernacular farm shed, with a plan that’s charmingly simple yet highly considered in its detail. Located on a quintessentially NSW South Coast dairy farm. The design explores the vernacular steel portal frame typology in a highly refined and detailed way.

23 Apr 2018 Headland House, Gerringong, Illawarra region, New South Wales Design: ATELIER ANDY CARSON photo : Michael Nicholson New House in Gerringong This new home designed by Atelier Andy Carson is a sanctuary from its harsh surrounds, perched on a sprawling coastal site overlooking Werri Beach, New South Wales. Green pastures and paddocks running dairy cows line this 150-acre property on one side, rugged coastal cliffs and ocean on the other.

18 Apr 2018 The Books House, Mosman Design: Luigi Rosselli Architects photo © Justin Alexander New House in Mosman Subtle and thoughtful new property that focuses on the startification of the rock found – and exposed – on the site of the residence. The concrete structure of each floor is oriented differently to suit the views, and also maximise the distances from the neighbours on each side.

10 Apr 2018 Double Bay House Architects: SAOTA photograph : Adam Letch Contemporary House on Sydney Harbour Shore An oversailing timber roof canopy connects the street side to the garden and the beach. It permeates the interior, presenting itself at odd moments, it protects and defines the collection of internal and external spaces composed beneath.

2 Feb 2018 Mt Duneed House, Geelong, Victoria Architects: Lachlan Shepherd Architects photo : Ben Hosking New House in Victoria An honest, low-slung building in a suburb of Geelong, Victoria. the property sits sympathetically with its surroundings. Simply clad with corten steel and recycled timber, the home is positioned on the crest of a gentle hill and surrounded by paddocks with scattered trees.

5 Feb 2018 Glebe House Design: Nobbs Radford Architects photo : Murray Fredericks Glebe House The project is primarily focused on the interconnections of cloistered spaces, created and selected framed openings. The outer concrete elements contrast with the timber elements that further define the various internal zones and functions within the house.

1 Feb 2018 Small Living Spaces Apartment, Surry Hills Design: Catseye Bay photo : Katherine Lu Small Living Spaces Apartment A New South Wales studio apartment structured by colour.

29 Jan 2018 House Pranayama, Bellevue Hill Design: Architect Prineas photo : Ben Hosking Home Pranayama in Bellevue Hill This residential project involved a narrow three-story side addition to a 1920s two storey brick house. The clients desirted space for a study, library and rumpus area that also provided an opportunity for internal connection/lift access from the previously separate garage.

13 Jan 2018 Maybanke House Architects: AJ+C photo © Michael Nicholson Maybanke House Design ingenuity and a dose of respect for its original Gothic Revival bones deliver a blighted 1870s harbourside home in Sydney into the 21st century.

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Loss of the Victory 4 October 1744 ,by Peter Monamy 18th century

The keel laying of the Victory took place on 6 March 1726 in Portsmouth. The ship was built by master shipbuilder Joseph Allin and was initially to cost £38,239 - plus a further £12,652 for further adaptations as a flagship.

The Victory had three decks and had a smooth transom in the stern area. Galleries were integrated into the transom, which led to the side galleries on the sides and were open for the first time in the Royal Navy as a shipbuilding novelty. As a special feature, the Victory also had a gallery construction on the upper poop deck (Poop-Royal), so that it had four rows of windows, four rows of lights and three open galleries at the stern, which were decorated with numerous baroque carvings.

Due to its powerful appearance, contemporaries attributed to it a military deterrent function that should not be underestimated.At the uppermost position of the stern there were traditionally three stern lanterns.

It is very likely that of the predecessor Victory, originally called Royal James and renamed Victory in 1691, which was destroyed by fire in 1721 during repair work, some woods were also used in this new Victory, especially as it was officially considered a rebuilt of the ship which was burnt during calfater work and subsequently dismantled.The new Victory was equipped with 100 cannons and was therefore a first rate. She was also the last 1st class ship of the Royal Navy to be completely equipped with bronze cannons. She was also the only Royal Navy ship to have the unusual number of 15 ports per side on the upper gun deck.

After 11 years of construction in dry dock, it was launched at the Royal Dockyards of Portsmouth on 23 February 1737 and placed under the Channel Fleet of Admiral Sir John Norris in 1739. Thomas Whitney became captain of the ship.Admiral Norris followed on 16 July 1739 provocations of the Spanish fleet and Spanish buccaneers and left with 16 ships, in order to fight the Spaniards finally and to prevent further influences on British ship movements. Although there were no major battles, Norris apparently managed a successful intervention.

On 16 July 1740 the Victory collided with the Lion and lost the bowsprit.In March 1744 King George II granted Norris retirement after 54 years of service.In July 1744 Admiral Sir John Balchen, who was at that time second highest commander of the Royal Navy, took over the Victory as flagship; Captain was Samuel Faulkner since December 1741 already, who replaced the deceased Whitney.

As Balchen’s flagship at the time, the Victory did not take part in any major naval battles of its time, but was mainly used to protect the important trade routes and thus to maintain or expand the extraordinary trading position of the British by providing escort for merchant ships or helping hijacked convoys. The Victory was ordered in 1744 in a strong squadron of 8 Dutch and 25 British ships as the flagship of Admiral Balchen to the Tajo River Delta, after the French Brest fleet had established a large convoy of British merchant ships there.Balchen managed to beat the French into flight so that he could accompany the convoy all the way to Gibraltar. He then attempted to capture parts of the French fleet and engage them in battle. On 9 August 1744 Balchen was able to take eleven large merchant ships from San Domingo as prizes. On 9 September 1744, while he was besieging the port of Cádiz, the commander of his Dutch ships under his command, Admiral Hendrik Gravé, informed him that water and food for his ships were scarce and that they had to be replenished. 

Balchen then ordered the return journey to England in order to pick up provisions, carry out repairs and prepare himself for further measures.On the way back to England, Balchen and his fleet were able to anchor in Lisbon, where the Victory took on 400,000 pounds sterling intended for Dutch traders.On the way home Balchen is said to have taken some more pinches in order to increase his private fortune with his pinch share at the end of the order, as it was usual with commanders of the Royal Navy. Some heavily loaded merchant ships with valuable goods from overseas are said to have gone into his net.After the British fleet reached the English Channel on 3 October 1744, it was hit by a violent storm that even devastated London. The Exeter, an escort ship, lost the main mast, while the Duke, also an escort ship, had all sails shredded and the ship itself was under water 10 feet deep.

The last time the Victory was sighted was on 4 October 1744 off the Channel Islands by escorting vessels of the Union, as it increasingly separated itself from its escort vessels. The storm scattered the fleet widely, but it later reached native waters and could moor in England. The Victory, on the other hand, never reached a safe harbour, but sank with the 1150-man crew, so that even a search carried out by several fast frigates on the following days was unsuccessful.Due to the last sighting position and the adjacent course, the Casquets, a small group of rocks near Alderney where many ships were sinking, were suspected to be the scene of the accident.Some parts of the wreckage of the Victory were used as flotsam on some Channel Islands: two top masts with the inscription “VICT” and a sail with the inscription “Victy” were washed up shortly after the accident on the Channel Island Guernsey. Some pump fragments, parts of the gun carriage with the inscription GR (George Rex) and some oars with the inscription “Victory” were washed up on the island of Sark. However, the exact location of the accident remained hidden for more than 250 years.

In 2008, the alleged wreck of the Victory was discovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration about 100 km from its supposed place of sinking. This has now obtained permission to salvage the wreck from the legitimate owner of the wreck, the UK Department of Defence. The modalities and extent of the salvage are still under discussion as they are in breach of international agreements and there are doubts as to the legality of the permit. In a similar case, the salvage firm had difficulties in enforcing its business model.

So far, two bronze gun barrels from the years 1726 and 1734 (1 × 12 pounds, 1 × 42 pounds) have been recovered, one with the coat of arms of George I, the other with the coat of arms of George II, which could have been on board the liner Victory. Various debris could also be found on the seabed, including further bronze cannon barrels of different calibres, cannon wheels, anchors, ballast material, wooden planks, the 10 m long rudder and objects of daily use, as well as the wreck which was stored in several sand waves. Human remains (a skull and other skeletal bones) were also found there, but left on the seabed for reasons of piety.

Since the Victory is the only ship on this list to have been lost in the English Channel, the salvage company currently assumes that it has actually found the right wreck of the Victory, which sank in 1744. In February 2012 an agreement was reached in London under which 80% of the find could be retained by the exploration company, 20% would go to the UK and British researchers would be able to evaluate all the finds. This follows the creation of the Maritime Heritage Foundation by Lord Lingfield, a descendant of Admiral Balchen. The Ministry of Defence, responsible for the management of Royal Navy shipwrecks, then bequeathed the wreck to the Victory of the Maritime Heritage Foundation, which subsequently announced the 80-20% scheme. Experts see this as a commercial looting of an archaeological find that has been boosted by a policy change in the UK. Salvage of the wreck was due to begin in 2012, but still appears to depend on some expertise.

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Tall Ships at Redpath Waterfront Festival 2019

The Redpath Waterfront Festival has taken over the Toronto harbourfront and one of the attractions is the Tall Ships. The Tall Ships visit Toronto every three years as part of the festival. There are three locations to see the Tall Ships during the festival including Harbour Square Park, Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common. You will need to purchase a ticket to board any of the 12 vessels. Torontonicity checked out the tall ships at Sherbourne Common on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

Redpath Waterfront Festival in Toronto 2019

Harbour Square Park

Tall ships at Harbour Square Park include the U.S. Brig Niagara, Fair Jeanne, Pride of Baltimore II, Playfair and St. Lawrence II. While you’re there, participate in the Ship Shape Obstacle Course; admission is pay-what-you-can, with proceeds going to Toronto Search and Rescue. Ships crews will participate in relays from 11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday and from 10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. on Monday July 1, 2019 (Canada Day). Kids can enjoy sail training activities at the Tall Ship Adventure Zone. Food vendors will be on site serving up delicious treats.

Tall Ships at Sugar Beach

The tall ships at Sugar Beach include the HMCS Oriole, the Royal Canadian Navy’s oldest commissioned ship. Listen to Home Port Hero stories from Parks Canada and the Royal Canadian Navy, highlighting the sacrifices made by merchant sailors and shipbuilders during WWII. You can also enjoy live entertainment at the Canada D’Eh Stage with performances by American Rogues, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation performers including Manitou Mkwa Singers, Hoop Demonstration with Nikki Shawana and Mark LaForme Band, and the Royal Canadian Navy. There will also be activities and giveaways from Redpath Sugar, Waterfront Toronto and Morning Star Farms. There are also food vendors at Sugar Beach serving summer-inspired fare.

Tall Ships at Sherbourne Common

BlueNose II

We decided to check out the Tall Ships docked at Sherbourne Common. The undoubted star attraction of the Redpath Waterfront Festival is the Bluenose II – yes the ship you see on the Canadian dime! The Bluenose II was built in 1963 after its predecessor sunk in Haiti. Unlike its predecessor, it does not race. Owned by the government of Nova Scotia, the Bluenose II was refurbished in 2012. Be sure to check out the gorgeous masts, booms and deck made from Douglas Fir from British Columbia. An interesting fact: the Bluenose II has the largest working mainsail – 4,150 square feet – in the world.

Bluenose II at Redpath Waterfront Festival in Toronto

On the Bluenose II at Redpath Waterfront Festival 2019 in Toronto

The Bluenose II is a gorgeous ship to board. We arrived right at 11 a.m. on Saturday and there was not much of a line-up to board the ship. If you are visiting the Redpath Waterfront Festival, I highly recommend that you board the Bluenose II.

Picton Castle

Picton Castle is an older vessel, built in 1928. After having boarded the newer Bluenose II, we noticed quite a contrast in the two boats. For instance, you have to climb a fairly steep ladder of about six steps to get to the upper deck of the Picton Castle. Despite being an older vessel, she sailed around the globe for the first time in November 1997. Named after a castle in Wales, this ship served as a minesweeper and then carried cargo along the Norwegian coast for decades. Picton Castle now offers a sail-training program where trainees learn about sailing. She has gone on seven adventures around the world with 40 trainees. Definitely check this boat out if you want to see what an older ship looks like!

Picton Castle at Redpath Waterfront Festival 2019

Picton Castle at Redpath Waterfront Festival 2019

Denis Sullivan

We then boarded Denis Sullivan, which is the most modern vessel at the Redpath Waterfront Festival; it’s a  replica of a 19th century great lakes schooner. She uses modern navigation equipment and diesel engines and has showers for her crew, a scientific laboratory and two computer workstations. You’ll get a chance to go below deck to see some of her impressive technology and equipment. Denis Sullivan has come all the way from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, her home port. Denis Sullivan offers multi-day and daily educational sails, where visitors learn about sailing, maritime history and the Great Lakes ecosystem. Denis Sullivan first visited Toronto in 2010 as part of the Tall Ships event.

  The mast on Denis Sullivan at Redpath Waterfront Festival 2019

Don’t miss the two-day Oyster Shucking Competition at Sherbourne Common hosted by Rodney’s Oyster House. The special guest is MasterChef Season 6 winner Jennifer Crawford. On Sunday June 30, 2019 from 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., 1012 shuckers will compete with the top shuckers competing on Canada Day.

Maritime Market

After boarding the tall ships, we visited the Maritime Market at Sherbourne Common. Here’s where you can stave off hunger by checking out food stands selling lobster and crab poutine, lobster rolls, scallop and bacon pizza, burritos and fries. We stopped at Rodney’s Oyster House who were shucking Lameque Cocktail oysters from New Brunswick. These oysters were 6 for $12 or 12 for $20. They were a great choice – crisp in flavour, salty and meaty in texture.

Lameque Cocktail oysters from Rodney’s Oyster House at Redpath Waterfront Festival

We also checked out some of the jewelry and beauty products vendors. I love these sun catchers with the Tree of Life made with gemstones from Bella Beads.

Sun catchers made from gemstones from Bella Beads at Redpath Waterfront Festival

Listening to live entertainment on the East Coast Kitchen Party Stage from The Next Generation Leahy, Great Canadian Fiddle Show, Screeched Inn and Shreem x Celtic Remixing really put us in a Maritime mood.

The Redpath Waterfront Festival is Saturday, June 29, 2019 and Sunday, June 30, 2019 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Monday, July 1, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online. Ahoy matey, what are you waiting for?

#Redpath Waterfront Festival #Tall Ships

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Part II: Fish Farming is Feeding the World, But at What Cost?

[Part I of this article may be found here. This piece appeared first in The New Yorker and is reproduced here courtesy of The Outlaw Ocean Project.]

In September 2019, Gambian lawmakers gathered in the stately but neglected hall of the National Assembly for an annual meeting, where James Gomez, minister of the country’s fisheries and water resources, insisted that “Gambian fisheries are thriving. ” Industrial fishing boats and plants represent the largest employer of Gambians in the country, including hundreds of deckhands, factory workers, truck drivers, and industry regulators. When a lawmaker asked him about the criticisms of the three fish-meal plants, including their voracious consumption of bonga, Gomez refused to engage. “Boats are not taking more than a sustainable amount,” he said, adding that Gambian waters even have enough fish to sustain two more plants.

Under the best circumstances, estimating the health of a nation’s fish stock is a murky science. Marine researchers like to say that counting fish is like counting trees, except they’re mostly invisible—below the surface—and constantly moving. Ad Corten, a Dutch fishing biologist, told me that the task is even tougher in a place like West Africa, where countries lack the funding to properly analyze their stocks. The only reliable assessments of fish stocks in the area have focussed on Mauritania, Corten said, and they show a sharp decline driven by the fish-meal industry. “Gambia is the worst of them all,” he said, noting that the fisheries ministry barely tracks how many fish are caught by licensed ships, much less the unlicensed ones. As fish stocks have been depleted, many wealthier nations have increased their marine policing, often by stepping up port inspections, imposing steep fines for violations, and using satellites to spot illicit activity at sea. They also have required industrial boats to carry mandatory observers and to install monitoring devices onboard. But Gambia, like many poorer countries, has historically lacked the political will, technical skill, and financial capacity to exert its authority offshore.

Still, though it has no police boats of its own, Gambia is trying to better protect its waters. In August 2019, I joined a secret patrol that the fisheries agency was conducting with the help of an international ocean conservation group called Sea Shepherd, which had brought—as surreptitiously as it could—a one-hundred-and-eighty-four-foot ship called the Sam Simon into the area. It’s equipped with extra fuel capacity, to allow for long patrols, and a doubly reinforced steel hull for ramming into other boats.  

In Gambia, the nine miles of water closest to the shore have been reserved for local fishermen, but on any given day dozens of foreign trawlers are visible from the beach. Sea Shepherd’s mission was to find and board trespassers, or other vessels engaged in prohibited behaviors, such as shark finning or netting juvenile fish. In the past few years, the group has worked with African governments in Gabon, Liberia, Tanzania, Benin, and Namibia to conduct similar patrols. Some fisheries experts have criticized these collaborations as publicity stunts, but they have led to the arrest of more than fifty illegal fishing ships.

Barely a dozen local government officials had been informed about the Sea Shepherd mission. To avoid being spotted by fishermen, the group brought in several small speed boats at night and used them to spirit a dozen heavily armed Gambian Navy and fisheries officers out to the Sam Simon. We were joined on the patrol by two gruff private-security contractors from Israel, who were training the Gambian officers in military procedures for boarding ships. While we waited on the moonlit deck, one of the Gambian guards, dressed in a crisp blue-and-white camouflage uniform, showed me a music video on his phone by one of Gambia’s best-known rappers, ST Brikama Boyo. He translated the lyrics of a song, called “Fuwareyaa,” which means “poverty”: “People like us don’t have meat and the Chinese have taken our sea from us in Gunjur and now we don’t have fish.”

Three hours after we embarked, the foreign ships had all but vanished, in what appeared to be a coördinated flight from the forbidden waters. Sensing that word about the operation had gotten out, the Sam Simon’s captain changed plans. Instead of focussing on the smaller unlicensed ships close to land that were mostly from neighboring African countries, he would conduct surprise at-sea inspections of the fifty-five industrial ships that were licensed to be in Gambian waters. It was a bold move: marine officers would be boarding larger, well-financed ships, many of them with political connections in China and Gambia.

Less than an hour later, we pulled alongside the Lu Lao Yuan Yu 010, a hundred-and-thirty-four-foot electric-blue trawler streaked with rust, operated by a Chinese company called Qingdao Tangfeng Ocean Fishery, a company that supplies all three of Gambia’s fish-meal plants. A team of eight Gambian officers from the Sam Simon boarded the ship, AK-47s slung over their shoulders. One officer was so nervous that he forgot the bullhorn he was assigned to carry. Another officer’s sunglasses fell into the sea as he leaped onto the deck.

Copyright Fabio Nascimento / The Outlaw Ocean Project

Onboard the Lu Lao Yuan Yu 010 were seven Chinese officers and a crew of four Gambians and thirty-five Senegalese. The Gambian marine officers soon began grilling the ship’s captain, a short man named Shenzhong Qui who wore a shirt smeared with fish guts. Below deck, ten African crew members in yellow gloves and stained smocks stood shoulder to shoulder on either side of a conveyor belt, sorting bonga, mackerel, and whitefish into pans. Nearby, the floor-to-ceiling rows of freezers were barely cold. Roaches scurried up the walls and across the floor, where some fish had been stepped on and squashed.

I spoke to one of the workers who told me his name was Lamin Jarju and agreed to step away from the line to talk. Though no one could hear us above the deafening ca-thunk, ca-thunk of the conveyor, he lowered his voice before explaining that the ship had been fishing within the nine-mile zone until the captain received a radioed warning from nearby ships that a policing effort was under way.

When I asked Jarju why he was willing to reveal the ship’s violation, he said, “Follow me.” He led me up two levels to the roof of the wheel room, where the captain works. He showed me a large nest of crumpled newspapers, clothing, and blankets, where, he said, several crew members had been sleeping for the past several weeks, ever since the captain hired more workers than the ship could accommodate. “They treat us like dogs,” Jarju said.

When I returned to the deck, an argument was escalating. A Gambian Navy lieutenant named Modou Jallow had discovered that the ship’s fishing log book was blank. All captains are required to maintain log books and keep detailed diaries that document where they go, how long they work, what gear they use, and what they catch. The lieutenant had issued an arrest order for the infraction and was yelling in Chinese at Captain Qui, who was incandescent with rage. “No one keeps that!” he shouted.

He was not wrong. Paperwork violations are common, especially on fishing boats working along the coast of West Africa, where countries don’t always provide clear guidance about their rules. Fishing-boat captains tend to view log books as tools of bribe-seeking bureaucrats or as statistical cudgels of conservationists bent on closing fishing grounds.

But the lack of proper logs makes it almost impossible to determine how quickly Gambia’s waters are being depleted. Scientists rely on biological surveys, scientific modelling and mandatory reports from fish dealers on shore to assess fish stocks. And they use log books to determine fishing locations, depths, dates, gear descriptions, and “fishing effort”—how long nets or lines are in the water relative to the quantity of fish caught. 

Jallow ordered the fishing Captain to steer his ship back to port, and the argument moved from the upper deck down to the engine room, where the Captain claimed he needed a few hours to fix a pipe—enough time, the Sam Simon crew suspected, for the Captain to contact his bosses in China and ask them to call in a favor with high-level Gambian officials. Jallow, sensing a stalling tactic, smacked the Captain in the face. “You will make the fix in an hour!” Jallow shouted, grabbing the Captain by the throat. “And I will watch you do it.” Twenty minutes later, the Lu Lao Yuan Yu 010 was en route to shore.

Over the next several weeks, the Sam Simon inspected fourteen foreign ships, most of them Chinese and licensed to fish in Gambian waters, and arrested thirteen of them. Under arrest, ships are typically detained in port for several weeks and fined anywhere from five thousand to fifty thousand dollars. All but one vessel was charged with lacking a proper fishing-log book, and many were also fined for improper living conditions and for violating a law that stipulates Gambians must comprise twenty per cent of shipping crews on industrial vessels in national waters. On one Chinese-owned vessel, there weren’t enough boots for the deckhands, and one Senegalese worker was pricked by a catfish whisker while wearing flip flops. His swollen foot, oozing from the puncture wound, looked like a rotting eggplant. On another ship, eight workers slept in a space meant for two, a four-foot-tall steel-sided compartment directly above the engine room and dangerously hot. When high waves crashed onboard, the water flooded the makeshift cabin, where, the workers said, an electrical power strip had twice almost electrocuted them.

Back in Banjul, one rainy afternoon I sought out Manneh, the local Gambian journalist and environmental advocate. We met in the white-tiled lobby of the Laico Atlantic hotel, decorated with fake potted plants and thick yellow drapes. Pachelbel’s Canon played in an endless loop in the background, accompanied by the plinking of water dripping from the ceiling into half a dozen buckets. Manneh had recently returned to Gambia after a year in Cyprus, where he had fled after his father and brother had been arrested for political activism against Yahya Jammeh, a brutal autocrat who was eventually forced from power in 2017. Manneh, who told me that he hoped to become President one day, offered to take me to the Golden Lead factory.

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The next day, Manneh returned in a Toyota Corolla he had hired for the difficult drive. Most of the road from the hotel to Golden Lead was dirt, which recent rains had turned into a treacherous slalom course of deep and almost impassable craters. The trip was about thirty miles, and took nearly two hours. Over the din of a missing muffler, he prepared me for the visit. “Cameras away,” he cautioned. “No saying anything critical about fish meal.” Just a week before my arrival that some of the same fishermen who had pulled up the plant’s wastewater pipe had apparently switched sides, attacking a team of European researchers who had come to photograph the facility, pelting them with rocks and rotten fish. Though they opposed the dumping and resented the export of their fish, some locals did not want foreign media publicizing Gambia’s problems.

We finally pulled up at the entrance of the plant, five hundred yards from the beach, behind a ten-foot wall of white corrugated metal. An acrid stench, like burning orange peels and rotting meat, assaulted us as soon as we got out of the car. Between the factory and the beach was a muddy patch of land, studded with palm trees and strewn with litter, where fishermen were repairing their boats in thatched-roof huts. The day’s catch lay on a set of folding tables, where women were cleaning, smoking, and drying it for sale. One of the women wore a hijab dripping wet from the surf. When I asked her about the catch, she shot me a dour look and tipped her basket toward me. It was barely half-full. “We can’t compete,” she said. Pointing at the factory, she added, “It all goes there.”

The Golden Lead plant consists of several football-field-size concrete buildings, and sixteen silos, where dried fish meal and chemicals were stored. Fish meal is relatively simple to make, and the process is highly mechanized, which means that plants the size of Golden Lead need only about a dozen men on the floor at any given time. Video footage clandestinely taken by a fishmeal worker inside Golden Lead reveals the plant is cavernous, dusty, hot, and dark. Sweating profusely, several men shovel shiny heaps of bonga into a steel funnel. A conveyor belt carries the fish into a vat, where a giant churning screw grinds it into a gooey paste, and then into a long cylindrical oven, where oil is extracted from the goo. The remaining substance is pulverized into a fine powder and dumped onto the floor in the middle of the warehouse, where it accumulates into a ten-foot-tall golden mound. After the powder cools, workers shovel it into fifty-kilogram plastic sacks stacked floor to ceiling. A shipping container holds four hundred bags, and the men fill roughly twenty to forty containers a day.

Near the entrance of Golden Lead, a dozen or so young men hustled from shore to plant with baskets on their heads, brimming with bonga. Nearby, standing under several gangly palm trees, a forty-two-year-old fisherman named Ebrima Jallow explained that the women pay more for a single basket, but Golden Lead buys in bulk and often pays for twenty baskets in advance—in cash. “The women can’t do that,” he said.

A few hundred yards away, Dawda Jack Jabang, the fifty-seven-year-old owner of the Treehouse Lodge, a deserted beachfront hotel and restaurant, stood in a side courtyard staring at the breaking waves. “I spent two good years working on this place,” he told me. “And overnight Golden Lead destroyed my life.” Hotel bookings have plummeted, and the plant’s odor at times is so noxious that patrons leave his restaurant before finishing their meal.

Golden Lead has hurt more than helped the local economy, Jabang said. But what about all of those young men hauling their baskets of fish to the factory? Jabang waved the question away dismissively: “This is not the employment we want. They’re turning us into donkeys and monkeys.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the tenuousness of this employment landscape, as well as its corruption. In May, many of the migrant workers on fishing crews returned home to celebrate Eid just as borders were closing down. With workers unable to return to Gambia and new lockdown measures in place, Golden Lead and other plants suspended operation.

Or they were supposed to. Manneh obtained secret recordings in which Bamba Banja, of the Ministry of Fisheries, discussed bribes in exchange for allowing factories to operate during the lockdown. In October, Banja took a leave of absence after a police investigation found that, between 2018 and 2020, he had accepted ten thousand dollars in bribes from Chinese fisherman and companies, including Golden Lead. 

On the day that I visited Golden Lead, I made my way down to the sprawling beach. I found Golden Lead’s new wastewater pipe, which was about 12 inches in diameter, already rusted, corroded and only slightly visible above the mounds of sand. The Chinese flag was gone. Kneeling down, I felt liquid flowing through it. Within minutes, a Gambian guard appeared and ordered me to leave the area.

The next day I headed to the country’s only international airport, located an hour away from the capital, Banjul, to catch my flight home. My luggage was light now that I’d thrown away the putrid-smelling clothes from my trip to the fish-meal plant. At one point during the drive, as we negotiated pothole after pothole, my taxi driver vented his frustration. “This,” he said, gesturing ahead of us, “is the road the fishmeal plant promised to pave.” 

At the airport, I discovered my flight had been delayed by a flock of buzzards and gulls blocking the only runway. Several years earlier, the Gambian government had built a landfill close by, and scavenger birds descended in droves. While I waited among a dozen German and Australian tourists, I called Mustapha Manneh. I reached him at home, in the town of Kartong, seven miles from Gunjur.

Manneh told me he was standing in his front yard, looking out on a litter-strewn highway that connects the JXYG factory, a Chinese fish-meal plant, to Gambia’s largest port, in Banjul. In the few minutes we had been talking, he said, he had watched ten tractor-trailer trucks rattle by, kicking up thick clouds of dust as they went, each hauling a forty-foot-long shipping container full of fish meal. From Banjul, those containers would depart for Asia, Europe, and the United States.

“Every day,” Manneh said, “it’s more.”

Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington DC that focuses on environmental and human rights concerns at sea globally.

This article appears here courtesy of The Outlaw Ocean Project. Part I of this story may be found here.

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Enjoy the charming sights in Lake Nasser during your sailing trip to Amada Temples and Derr, the tomb of Penout, and Wadi El Seboua which is the site of two New Kingdom Egyptian temples, including one speos temple constructed by the 19th dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II, in Lower Nubia. The first temple was built by the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III and subsequently restored by Ramesses II, The second larger temple which was built at el-Sebua was known as "The Temple of Ri'amesse meryamun Ramesses II, in the Domain of Amun" and constructed roughly 150 m northeast of Amenhotep III's temple.

Then proceed to visit the flourishing Temples Dakka and Meharakka while Sailing to Aswan you will have the chance to see the beautiful city the main attraction place the Philae Temple which is dedicated to goddess of motherhood isis, scout around Elephantine island the largest island in Aswan it was built on the island to establish Egypt’s southern frontier, so it was the first defense line in Upper Egypt. Elephantine Island became an important customs point and trading centre, The Island contains Ancient Egyptians artifacts due to its location at the first Cataract of the Nile, which provided a natural boundary between Egypt and Nubia. And visit the amazing historical Temple of abu simbel which contains two temples one the temple of queen Nefertari and the other temple of Ramses II. Then see the High Dam of Aswan, The Aswan dam was constructed to regulate the flow of the river, which serves the whole of Egypt Flooding of the Nile occurs annually, with almost half of the water being drained into the sea wastefully. The dam controls floods by regulating the flow of river and supplies water for irrigation throughout the year. This dam is 30.M wide and 50.M high.

Or Discover the Ancient Egyptian history by visiting Kalabsha temple and Nubian Museum. Kalabsha Temple is often the first stop for any cruise on Lake Nasser because he located close to Lake Nasser, near the western end of Aswan High Dam. The temple dates back to the roman times, especially to the time of the roman emperor Augustus, later other emperors have contributed to the construction, such as kaligula and Trjan. It was moved to this spot from it’s originally location 30 miles to the south after the construction of the dam.

Explore the Luxor temple that it is a very large temple that is located in the east bank of the Nile River, it was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Ramses II and a many kings made additional to this temple, it also was known as the Southern Sanctuar and constructed in 1400 B.C during the New Kingdom for the Opet Festival an ancient Egyptian celebration that was organizing annually, as well as Alexander the Great who rebuilt the Sothern Sanctuary and converted it to church. And experience the Luxor culture, customs and traditions.

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Day 01: Arrive Cairo

At the time your flight touching Cairo Land, one delegate from Flying Carpet Tours will be holding a sign with your name, transfer to hotel, relax from the inconvenience of your travel, overnight in Cairo.

Day 02: Cairo Tours, Pyramids of Giza, The Egyptian Museum

Taste the flavor of your breakfast at hotel, then Flying Carpet Tours guide will lead you to a ravishing tour to Pyramids of Giza, feast your eyes by visiting Pyramids of Cheops, Chephren and Mykerinus, then your guide will take you to panoramic view of the pyramids, memorable photos available to the three pyramids together, next move to the Sphinx, scout the valley temple, relax by having lunch at local restaurant, after Lunch your tour guide will escort you to the Egyptian Museum which contains amazing treasures of King Tut Ankh Amun, finally back to hotel, night at leisure, or choose from variety of optional tours, Either to try Dinner Cruise on the Nile River with Folklore show, Belly Dancer, surprises are waiting for you, or try optional to the sound & light show at the pyramids, overnight in Cairo.

Day 03: Lake Nasser Cruise

Taste the flavor of your breakfast at hotel, then one delegate from Flying Carpet Tours will escort you to Cairo domestic airport, fly to Abu Simbel, at the time you arrive Abu Simbel airport, transfer to Lake Nasser Cruise, feast your eyes while visiting Abu Simbel temple, Lunch included on board, Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 04: Lake Nasser Cruise

Taste the flavor of your breakfast on board, unleash your soul while Sailing to Kasr Ibrim, watching Kasr Ibrim from the sun deck. (It is not allowed to enter inside Kasr Ibrim) Lunch included on board, sail to Amada, visit Amada Temples and Derr, scout the tomb of Penout, Next sail to Wadi El Seboua, dinner and overnight on board.

Day 05: Lake Nasser Cruise

Taste the flavor of your breakfast on board, visit Wadi El Seboua, then proceed to visit the flourishing Temples Dakka and Meharakka, Lunch included on board, feast your eyes while Sailing to Aswan, it contains awesome sites to explore, dinner and overnight on board.

Day 06: Nile Cruise Tour, The High Dam, Unfinished Obelisk, Philae Temple

Taste the flavor of your breakfast on board, Disembarkation, Visit Kalabsha temple, Beit El Wali, and the astonishing Kiosk of Kertassi, at the end of your tour, drive to Aswan by Air-conditioned vehicle, Embarkation to your Nile Cruise, embrace Aswan Culture by visiting the High Dam, next tour to the Unfinished Obelisk, feast your eyes and visit the ravishing Philae Temple, Lunch included on board, Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 07: Nile Cruise Tour, Kom Ombo, Edfu Temples

Taste the flavor of your breakfast on board, feast your eyes while Sailing to Kom Ombo, arrive Kom Ombo, scout the glory of Kom Ombo Temple, sail to Edfu, visit Edfu Temple (Horus Temple), sail to Esna, Lunch included on board, Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 08: Nile Cruise Tour, Valley of the Kings, Hatshepsut Temple, Colossi of Memnon

Taste the flavor of your breakfast on board, sail to Luxor, Unleash your soul between Valley of the Kings ( visit 03 Tombs Only ), Next visit to the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, known now with the name of El-Deir El-Bahary, your last visit will be to Colossi of Memnon, Watch the glory of the two huge statues, finally Flying Carpet Tours guide will escort you back to your Cruise, Lunch included on board, Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 09: Nile Cruise, Karnak and Luxor Temples, Fly to Cairo

Disembarkation from Cruise after tasting the flavor of your breakfast on board, feast your eyes and scout Luxor Culture, visit the fabulous Karnak Temple with its huge Pillars hall, next tour to Luxor temple, finally Flying Carpet Tours delegate will lead you to Luxor Airport, fly back to Cairo, once your flight touching Cairo land, transfer to hotel, overnight in Cairo.

Day 10: Final departure from Cairo

Today is the valediction day, taste the flavor of your breakfast at hotel, then one of Flying Carpet Tours delegates will lead you to Cairo International airport, for the final departure.

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