This river flows through a dry desert for over four thousand miles and it never receives rain. This Nile also does not join other bodies of water, but it never dries up. This river is filled with an immeasurable quantity of water which fertilizes the land it flows through. The fact that the Nile Valley is already the longest river in the world is astonishing, but that is not the only unique fact. The Nile Valley does something a river normally wouldn't do: flows from south to north. The Nile Valley has two sources that make up the entire river. The 2 sources are the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The White Nile is the longest of the 2 Niles, over 2,000 long alone and it begins near the border of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zaire. The shortest Nile, the Blue Nile, begins in the mountainous part of Ethiopia, over 5,000 feet above sea level. In some places the Blue Nile can be a mile deep and fifteen miles wide. Also during the