Cairo, Egypt
We drove from Scotland to London Heathrow to catch our flight to Egypt. We signed up for a tour for 10 days. When we arrive we are greeted by the man in charge of taking us to our first hotel. To our surprise there is no one else on the bus, turns out we will be the only ones for the entire trip! Cool huh?
Wow! Egypt is an amazing land! Our first stop is Cairo. 20 million inhabitants all driving like crazy. We took a photo of the traffic from our bus. We had just been involved in a minor fender bender (a taxi hit us in the rear) It was interesting…the drivers exchange a flurry of words for about 20 minutes, the taxi driver finally pays a bit of $ and within 20-30 minutes we are on our way again. Weaving in and out of 3 lanes of traffic when there is really only 2 lanes on the highway!
We took a tour of the Pyramids, attended a light show in the evening, and visited the Egyptian Museum where the contents of King Tut’s tomb are on display. Amazing!
Cairo is this huge city with modern buildings and Mosques, KFC, Pizza Hut AND men driving donkey carts with sugar cane along old, shabby, run down buildings. The local market in Old Cairo teems with carts and baskets full of dates, spices, fruits and the reddest tomatoes I have ever seen. In the doorways hang fresh meat, crates hold live chickens and pigeons It is quite something to see.
As you are driving away from busy Cairo into Giza all of a sudden you see the tips of the Pyramids! They sit right on the edge of the city with a vast desert behind them. A place of sharp contrasts indeed!
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