15 mins of drivel.. NO mention of James May. the discoverer of the true source of the Nile and two other blokes. shoddy research..

Ive crossed the rhine does that count haha

The Nile having a Renaissance in the next couple few. Rip. Meanwhile China putting a river under mountains

I live in Uganda and have seen the source of this mighty river. For us, the source is lake Nalubale (Victoria).

It began in Africa...

I can imagine. Milosh's video of the Mountains of the Moon, just to the north, is so beautiful. And it doesn't surprise me that the locals will claim their patch to be the source. Great tourist revenue!

Wow, can you share any videos of that places ?

@@Geodiode Mountains of the Moon (Rwenzori ) are in Uganda…

85% of the nile flows from Ethiopia to say Rewanda it the source is foolish

Not in Rwanda but in Burundi

... as stated in the video at 4:59 mark ...

Nice to hear your memories, but you didn't cruise up the great river?

@@Geodiode Nope, sadly not. It's still on my to-do list though! From what I remember and what I've talked about with my parents, the trip was for 14 days, we had a hotel in Hurghada by the Red Sea, then went by car to Luxor on I think the 5th or 6th day (someone who worked at our hotel had to go back to his family there and offered to take us with him, so our family of 5 plus him in a small car, and we drove in a convoy through the desert). We stayed in Luxor for I think 2 or 3 days, visited the Karnak temple, Valley of Kings (not sure about Queens) and the Temple of Hatshepsut. Our driver's brother also owned a felucca and we sailed a bit up the Nile and visited Gezira el-Mozh, but that is all the experience actually ON the Nile we had. We also visited the family home of these two brothers and ate food with them. Such wonderful, warm people. After our days in Luxor we went by train to Cairo, where I saw aforementioned scene of pyramid in sand and dust. From what I understand we were supposed to stay there a few days as well, but we immediately got ripped off by some taxi driver who overcharged us for a ride and then instead took us to a family member of his who offered us a camel/horse trip to near the pyramids. He was adamant we could not visit the pyramids up close, that was forbidden, but he could take us into the desert on camels and horses and we'd get a great view. I have no idea what price he charged, but my parents said it was "a lot of money" without willing to elaborate further. So we did that, and when we were there we just saw busloads of people in the distance practically clambering up the pyramids, so we knew we'd been hornswaggled. In my memory we did walk pretty much by the paws of the Sphinx, but I'm not entirely sure how accurate that memory is. After that debacle, my parents were disgusted with our treatment in Cairo, contrasted to the rest of our experiences, that we immediately went back to Hurghada after that. Anyway, that whole vacation has left an indelible impression on me and ever since then I've dreamed of going back, which would also very likely include a cruise, yes.

I am curious, how did it affect you? What did it shape in your life?

No problem 😊

Thanks v much!

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Thanks for this. Can you provide a reference detailing this expedition? It did not appear in my researches. The White Nile was known to the ancients, by the way. And did this expedition get past the Sudd? That's not clear in your remarks.

@@Geodiode All the sources that i found about this expedition are in Arabic. However, in the Arabic books there are references that these expeditions were published in French by the French Geography association. Muhammad Selim Pasha, the captain An Egyptian geographer and naval officer, he was born on the island of Crete (Greece), and is of Turkish origin. He came to Egypt in his youth with his family, and joined the Egyptian Navy during the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha, where he worked as an officer in the Alexandria arsenal, until Muhammad Ali Pasha entrusted him with making a trip to tropical Africa to discover the sources of the Nile River, as he was the first to send the first expedition to the sources of the White Nile. before the European missions. These expeditions had the merit of eliminating completely the idea that the source of the White Nile lie to the west. his scouting trips Muhammad Ali Pasha sent al-Bakbashi "Salim al-Qabtan" to explore the sources of the Nile between 1839 and 1842, and he made three consecutive trips. He was accompanied on missions by a personal representative of the governor, Suleiman Kashef, as well as Monsieur Thibault, who was called Ibrahim Effendi. The force took on board five boats called (Zahbiah) that were brought to Egypt, and three others that landed in Sennar, in addition to 15 boats carrying supplies and war ammunition sufficient for eight months. This trip aimed to explore the sources of the Nile following the example of the famous ancient kings of Egypt, and many describe it as the first fruits of the civilization that emanated in Egypt. The expedition set off from Khartoum on November 16, 1839, and lasted 135 days. It consisted of 400 people under his leadership. The campaign reached Al-Abs, in southern Sudan. Then the barriers in the river prevented the campaign from progressing. He penetrated the Sobat River in Sudan on his way back. Salim Kabtan put together a letter containing the details of this campaign and attached to it a meteorological table. This letter was the first reference that scientists referred to him in discovering the interior of Africa. It was presented by Monsieur Jomar, head of the Egyptian mission in France, to the French Geographical Society in Paris and published in the issues of July, August and September 1842, and it won the admiration of geographers. In France, Monsieur Joumar paved a preface to it, in which he praised Selim Bey Qabtan, and said in it: "This expedition consisting of 400 men led by an Egyptian officer and aimed at geographical discoveries is the first campaign of its kind. The report written in the expedition's diary is edited according to the conditions that European travelers edited, and it is worth mentioning that this trip is one of the fruits of the civilization that entered Egypt a quarter of a century ago." On his second trip in the year 1840, he reached the nearby island of Jonker, and reached latitude 5° north of the equator, from the lakes from which the Nile stems. Monsieur Darno, the French engineer accompanying the expedition, published his essay on this trip. It was published in the Journal of the French Geographical Society, November 1842, and then printed separately. As for the third voyage, its purpose was to follow up the previous efforts, and its course was slow due to the wind, and some sailors and soldiers were infected with diseases, and some of them died on the way. He returned to Khartoum on March 6, 1842. results of his travels: This information stimulated the commercial and practical bodies and motivated them to discover the regions through which the Nile River passes, and paved his travels for more scouting campaigns, although he did not reach the tropical headwaters of the Nile. As for the importance of his travels, it proved that the White Nile is the main Nile, and that there is a long course coming from the south. , different from the Blue Nile, which meets the White Nile after its exit from Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Then John Patrick (in English: John Petherick) completed the efforts of Salim the captain, especially after he entered the service of Muhammad Ali, then he made several trips between the years 1853 and 1854 AD in western Sudan, and he reached the Bahr al-Ghazal region. through Captain Slim and his soldiers; The peoples who lived near Gondokoro became acquainted with the religion of Islam, and some of them converted to it. His writings: Among his books is Journey to the Upper White Nile 1839-1840, in which he recounts his three famous trips. Sources: Wikipedia

@@zizogadolio All those words just to finally say "Sources: Wikipedia" 😂 fascinating info though.

@@SuperCatacata actually, I read the memoir’s of this Captin in Arabic , and it is available to download on line 🙂

I saw these in the stock video during research. But that's tragic about the kiwis.

Thanks for confirming that!

THIS

It was a great episode in a great series!

One of the most epic journeys by car ever seen on TV imo...

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it and yes i chose the intro music among hundreds to reflect a kind of historical epic

@Geodiode its hard to come by channels like these. What I get from your videos is a sense of genuine reverence and appreciation for other cultures histories, etc. No commercialized broadcasting or otherwise biased depiction. It's truly appreciated. I've watched several videos multiple times.

Yes the water really took the hard way down!

That’s because the water was spoken into existence there by Jesus Christ not formed over millions of years.

@@dmac2899Jesus did no such thing

​@dmac2899 Oh, I heard that the alligators made themselves by being lucky. Cells just fell together in abiogenesis. Lucky, lucky, lucky. 😂 Evos are such clowns.

​@@dmac2899lmao

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Thanks very much David. I'll be covering Spain in a 2 (possibly 3)-part special later this year.

Thanks v much!!!

Thank you! I didn't know about this movie. And now I'll definitely check it out!

Glad you liked it!

Thanks!

Hi Yiorgos! Glad you liked it and you learned a few new things :). I also couldn't keep the Greeks out of this one either!

The Ethiopian Highlands contribute over 85% of the water in the Nile. Comparatively, the White Nile is much less significant, except to 5th grade statistics obsession, in this case to hype the "Longest River". The Nile is historical because of the water and the silt it carried into Egypt, and both wash down from the highlands.

I’d imagine the White Nile/Victoria Nile are significant to the people who live near it. It’s not all about Egypt. Many species of the genus Homo have lived around the the lakes and rivers involved in the White Nile system for millions of years.

Nile is blessing to Africa especially east side,, let's use together instead blame eachother

Welcome! And thanks!

At higher altitudes, with cooler temperatures you get less evaporation. So these areas are not as dry as in the lower slopes.

Glad you liked it, thanks!

Glad you liked it, and yes, I enjoyed that episode of Top Gear (or was it the Grand Tour?)

Thanks for sharing! And you're welcome.

Thank you, sir!

Thank you!

Nice to hear of your experience. I hope to also experience a Nile cruise one day.

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for the feedback. The translations are all provided automatically by Google. Glad you enjoyed the work :)

That's intrepid travel!

Glad you enjoyed it!

True, but geographers of the past saw it through a simpler lens, and this series is about geographic history

@@Geodiode 👍

Honestly 👌

Most welcome

Good suggestion!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Please explain more. This did not show up in my research

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ኤዶም ገነትን ከሚያጠጡት አንዱ ነዉ ግዮን ወንዝ /አባይ

Wow, thank you

Glad you liked it!

Great that you got to be there were JHS walked 150+ years ago.

Burton made it to the southern shore of Victoria, but it was speke in a later expedition that found the outlet of the Nile at Jinja thus finally confirming the lake as the river's source

@@Geodiode Speke was a despicable human being. A liar and a coward.

@@Geodiodewasn’t that the source of their conflict? Speke went further than Burton, who was sick, and therefore had proof of it being the Nile’s source, but they disagreed on the validity

​@@GeodiodeBurton never made it. Malaria got him. In fact, he was possibly the first person to be called mzungu before Speke made it there and documented.

Thanks!

Yes, and I am pretty sure the Miss. is #2 in terms of flow after the Amazon.

@@Geodiode Do you mean the whole Mississippi-Missouri system including all tributaries? Mk point in the original comment was that perhaps the Missouri-Lower Mississippi should have been regarded the main river and the Upper Mississippi as the tributary.

Man got called mzungu for looking for the source of the Nile😂😂

Hi, I’m from a Philly suburb (Ridley Park in Delaware Cty) and now live in Allentown, PA. 💕🐝💕

You can come to Uganda in East Africa

By which I think you mean the flowrates? Yes I wanted to do this, but after a moderate search I was not able to locate this data.

@@Geodiodeno, he means the electrical conductivity, which is an indicator of total dissolved solids

The official name is Lake Victoria within the nations that border it, hence my use of it. The locals had no writing, hence no recorded history.

@@Geodiode if you talk to locals they don’t call it Victoria and they see it as a insult. Also having no writing system has nothing to do with it having a name . Locals have for centuries had a name for it . That would be like some one coming to your house and calling it some thing else even though you live their and have a name for it but because they see you as less then they disrespect you and disregard you or your input and call it some thing else .

​​@@Maatson_ Hey, dude, I like your point of view. Colonialists invading a country usually disrespect the locals. Colonialists rename the sites without even asking to the locals.

Yes, i chose it carefully for the whole series as the intro music

He wanted to be buried at the source after touring. Ugandans are nice people and have rich history with Indians especially Jinja city which is the source.

And there is a Hadid where he tradet black slaves

@@sahelkubrom1636 : Muhammad ibn Abdullah was completely opposed to the ferocious racism and hatred of Africans, which still exists today in Arabia. Unfortunately, he attempted to exterminate this 'Psychological disturbance' among the Arabs - but it's still embedded deep, in the culture today. 😟😢

Apparently "Nyanza", but the official name in all three bounding countries is still Lake Victoria. I'm surprised they haven't change it in any of them.

Glad you liked it!

Both famous men by that name were legends!

That's before the neolithic age...