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  • Lies on the border of Egypt is Gebel Elba (Mountain Elba in Arabic), the mountain, which rises to a peak of 1,435 metres, and Its surrounding protectorate, are situated in what is known as the Halayeb Triangle.
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  • A Nubian Ibex skull in Gebel Elba. The land sustain a surprising variety of wildlife. An astonishing 458 species of plant, forty species of birds, thirty species of reptiles, and twenty three species of mammals have been recorded in Halayeb triangle.
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  • One of the very few Egyptian travelers who got a permission to access Gebel Elba.
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  • Ahmed, a Bishari bedouin from the Beja tribe on the way to Gebel Elba. Bisharia bedouins are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Southern Egypt and north Sudan.
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  • A Bishari bedouin girl in Shalateen.
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  • Bishari bedouins from the Beja tribe in their small town of Halayeb.
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  • Abu Ramad, a small town lies between Halayeb and Shalateen. Halayeb triangle stretches from 50 kilometers north of Shalateen in Egypt all the way south to the Sudanese border. A territorial disputed land between the two countries.
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  • Bisharia are a subgroup of the Beja people who are bilingual in Beja and Arabic. They call themselves "sons of the Jinns", they were constantly at war with the Romans. In the Middle Ages, they were known as Beja, and convoyed pilgrims from the Nile valley to Aidhab, the port of embarkation for Jeddah. They have acted as guides to caravans through the Nubian desert and up the Nile valley.
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  • A Bishari bedouin cooking a small lamb for dinner.
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  • The market in Shalateen town.
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  • A camel herd moving from Halayeb to Shalateen. They arrive from Ethiopia and Sudan, go through Shalateen then get transported all the way up to Birqash camel market in Giza.
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  • Spotted on the road between Shalateen and Halayeb, a Bishari bedouin using a metal detector searching for gold.
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  • Hassan, a Bishari bedouin boy working in the small cafeteria of Abu Ramad.
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  • The view from the mountain looking towards the Red Sea.
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  • Houses of Halayeb
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