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From this vantage point the city could control not only the ships that passed through the strait on the important trade route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, but also the overland traffic travelling from Europe into Asia Minor, which used the narrow strait as a crossing point.
Although it is sometimes possible to enter Tibet at this border crossing, it is much easier to fly from Kathmandu to Lhasa and then travel overland back to Nepal.
No overland route existed from Mérida to the rest of Mexico until 1949, when the first railway arrived.
Most people take the regular flights from Aswan to Abu Simbel—around 50 minutes—but the four-hour overland route offers a fascinating insight into life away from the big tourist towns of Egypt if you have more time.
They didn’t stay for long, but gradually other traders and fur trappers began to arrive overland through Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, settling only in small numbers until the famous covered wagons began their heroic treks of the 1840s.