Ate breakfast at our hotel, then met up with Ola again for a day tour of Cairo. We drove through the city of the dead, which really is a city with buildings where people are buried. From the street, some of the buildings look like they could be single storey homes & other than a few street people, you wouldn´t know the residents were all dead. Next we drove through the ´rubbish´ city, whose inhabitants collect, sort & recycle all of Cairos rubbish. The area is predominantly Christian as the Muslims deem it a dirty profession, which essentially it is. It´s really strange to see people of all ages sorting through piles of rubbish, especially because they all live in the floors above the sorting rooms. Ola advised us not to open the windows & fortunately
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