At the southern part of Zamalek is a park called the Fish Garden. It has concrete grottos where aquariums are supposed to be and landscaped gardens and we thought it might be a nice place to look around. As in other Egyptian parks, a small entry fee supposedly keeps away undesirables. Our first clue that something was amiss was when we were walking around it to the gate and came across someone outside the fence peeking in through the bushes. All we could see inside was a young couple sitting on a seat, so concluded the peeper was some kind of weirdo. On entry, we found that not only were there no fish to be found, but that the whole place was full of canoodling Muslim couples. Yes that's right, full-on pashing up, groping, the whole
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