Cairo. It's like an alien city. We've been here relaxing and taking it easy for the last 3 days. The only touristy things we've done are see the night show at the Giza pyramids(tacky, but worth it) and get ripped off by local cabbies (who are crazy). The night show is worth seeing if you go to the Pizza Hut across the street and order some food, let the waiter know you'll give him a good tip and he'll dim all the lights, turn down the music and open the windows, which allows you to pretty much experience the same things as the guys that paid the 65 Egyptian pounds each and sat within the pyramid compound.
The pyramids are unreal and it's difficult to ascertain their true size at night. The whole view was surreal with all the donkeys on the street side by side with the cab cars and then these majestic pyramids mixed in with the smell o putrid and the tacky light show. We can't wait to see them in the day!
Food. Is good and cheappp with the best falafels I have ever had! And...they we're only $0.25 CDN each. YUM!
So the roads..wow..no lanes..everyone is weaving, pedestrians are forced to walk on roads due to the state of the sidewalks, even on highways. We got in at 11pm Cairo time and we were in traffic jams all the way. Rush Hour in Toronto is orderly and speedy comparatively.
We begin our Touristy Tour tomorrow and get a daytime view of Giza and the Sakkara Pyramids, then a night train to Aswan and then a 3day Nile cruise to Luxor and finally a one day flight to Abu Simbel and then another overnight train back to Cairo.
One more thing about Cairo. Pollution, it's dense, the air always smells like some mix of rotten and gasoline. Blow your nose and the resulting fluid is black. I feel like I've been smoking since I was 5 here. It is an alien world, you can't see those too often, really looking forward to Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings.
Peace.
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