I am very glad that I got to the city of Cairo. it turned out not specifically, but on the way to the main purpose of the tour – ancient pyramids. As soon as we entered the city of Cairo, my jaw dropped, and the finger began to nervously pull the shutter of the camera, making a series of shots through the glass of the bus. I had to pull myself together The flash drive is not a rubber one.
For a Westerner who first came to Asia, this, I think, quite normal reaction. I saw in Cairo, finally what I wanted to see, and what I missed in Sharm el-Sheikh, namely the eastern the color, the atmosphere of the eastern city, how it should be to my ideas. Small and cramped streets, a lot of shops with various goods, glass skyscrapers and shabby shabby bricks, bedouins in long coats and women in hijabs, old cars with Arabic inscriptions and donkey carts, mountains of garbage and gutters penetrating the city. There is no middle class only rich and poor.
Egypt. Cairo. Bread Shop.
Egypt. Cairo. One of the vehicles.
Cairo city. Streets.
Egypt. Cairo. Probably sewage.
The city of Cairo – the capital of Egypt, is the most big city on the continent. Near him, in Giza are located pyramids that attract tourists from all over the world. But also in the city itself also have something to see, the truth is that more is needed time than we had.
View from Cairo to the ancient pyramids.
In the city of Cairo, I finally saw what Asia is. Maybe, if I went to India, the shock would be even greater. Despite, that the city of Cairo is the 20 millionth metropolis with all flowing, then here I wanted to go back to soak up this atmosphere and understand how people live in this city of contrasts.
Cairo city. Egypt.
Egypt. Cairo. Streets.
Egypt. Cairo. Streets.
Egypt. Cairo. Residential area.
A lot of unfinished houses, you can say, most houses not completed. And they explained why: finished house taxed, and so, no home – no tax. Probably eternal construction is common in Cairo also because the Egyptians it is customary to live as a large family in the same house. And each following a generation, after growing up and having a family, builds a new floor.
Egypt. Cairo. Unfinished houses.
We drove into the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, took a look at the sarcophagi, mummified carcasses of the pharaohs, all sorts of different utensils and decorations those times. Everything that was in the pyramids is now here. Have seen the famous mask of Tutankhamen and the sarcophagus of pure gold and weight 110 kg. We learned from our guide, broadcasting in Russian distorted Russian, that Tutankhamen was a bad ruler, and became famous only thanks their funerary gold objects. Maybe he has a complex was, now there are wheelbarrows all measured, then sarcophagi. Photographing inside is impossible, the photographic equipment surrenders to the camera storage (at the entrance check things). Someone fotkal on the phone, I do not began to fool around. Ticket price at independent visit $ 12.
Ticket to the Cairo Egyptian Museum.
A short motor boat ride on the Nile in the city of Cairo also proved to be interesting – you can see Cairo from a different angle. Along the river are mini parks with palm trees and other trees with refined crowns adjacent to sewers and mountains of garbage.
Egypt. Cairo. Nile shore.
Egypt. Cairo. Park on the embankment of the Nile.
Some poor Arabs live on boats with their family and his modest belongings, moving along the river and fishing.
Nile River. Family in a floating apartment.
The highlight of the walk was lunch in a floating restaurant with a chic buffet style. I liked there very much fish, probably fished from the same nile. Scary, but still kind of alive. Need to notice that the river Nile seemed to me cleaner than The Moscow River, which also flows through the metropolis.
Visiting the salon aromamasel in Cairo is a very boring event. Well, unless you’re passionate about aromatherapy, and you know for sure that you and what you need to buy. Since after tasting the 10th flavor the head starts spinning, the nose doesn’t distinguish anything, and I want to just stupid smile. Then smiling tourists with burning eyes buy analogs of the French chanel or miraculous Viagra for rubbing into causal places.
Cairo city. Salon aromamasel.
The papyrus factory is not a factory at all, but a shop where it is represented. unmeasured amount of fairly beautifully painted papyrus, and where in a nutshell explain how these wipes get.
Cairo city. Papyrus factory.
Before leaving the glorious eastern city of Cairo, we saw horse corpse in gutter. So Cairo told us goodbye. After that, we plunged into a sweet slumber under the measured wiggle the bus.
Some more photos of Cairo with a separate post: Cairo photos – a small selection of views from the bus. And also an interesting place mountain Moses in Egypt, where we managed to slaz in one of the nights.
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