cairo and giza pyramids

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February 22nd 2008

Published: February 24th 2008

The biggest city and the capitol of modern Egypt was a breath of fresh air when we stepped off the plane after a long trip from Bombay. (But we did enjoy our five hour layover checking out the Kuwait airport.) After bargaining with a few taxi drivers we scored a ride into downtown, where the cheap hotels are concentrated. Our first impressions of Egypt were super good, the landscape and weathe... Read Full Entry

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bedouin tea for us

this is our guide/comedian.

total insanity!

we visited a carpet factory and they make carpets by hand one stitch at a time. this guy is making a picture on the carpet from the picture in front of him.

hand made carpet

a finished carpet. they were selling one carpet that took a whole family a year to make for 15000 us dollars. egytian cotton of course.

egyptian cotton

cotton in its raw form. i guess it has a pretty good reputation, b/c its a really good selling point, well at least thats what they try persuade you to believe when selling t-shirts.

islamic cairo

an area of downtown where this type of building is typical, there is also a market and tonnes of shisha/tea shops

islamic cairo

another building/gateway

market shot

you have to be brave,patient, or totally ignorant to deal with places like this!

cairo

same goes for this place

cairo traffic

the traffic system is much more organized here, compared to india. the taxi's are either fiats or puegot's

islamic cairo

more buildings

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