The plane ride from NY, NY to Cairo, Egypt ended up taking less than 11 hours, so our arrival into Cairo's airport was around 5:15 am EST and 1215 in Egypt. Some people were able to sleep on the plane ride over - I was not one of them. The better part of almost two hours was spent unloading the plane, getting luggage, and getting the group to the bus in order for us to be transported across town to our hotel. After getting loaded onto the bus, we met our tour guide Mahmoud, who would be with us during our entire journey through Egypt (or as he corrected us Misr). During our bus ride to the hotel, the Le Meridien Pyramids in Cairo, we were given some basic information about Egypt from Mahmoud. For starters,
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