We arrived in Cairo yesterday and tranfersed to our hotel in Giza with a a traffic jam that makes the Jersey turnpike look like a drive in the park. There are no, or so it seems, no traffic laws, no lanes, and very few traffic lights that appear to be ignored. Today, we started with a tour of the Egyptian Museum then back to Giza to tour the Great Pyramid, climbing inside then scaling a ramp at 55 degrees up into the center, bent over in a 3-foot tunnel for about 100 meters, a grueling workout, but worth every step. Thye people here are extremely nice and all, when they ask where we are from, reply "America #1, we like America". An occasional request to but poostcards, trinkets, crystal pyramids, and camel rides, but nothing more
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