Carpe Diem: Cairo

Carpe Diem

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Cairo

Been away for few days, but now here are more updates from my holidays :)

On Tuesday 17th July we went to the capital city of Egypt - to Cairo. The travel took us for 6 and half hours before we arrived :s
That day I felt already sick, so the travel by bus wasn't really pleasent for me and I was a bit happier when we arrived to Cairo, though I still felt sick - probably coz' of the heat which was a bit more than +40 C! :s

First we visited the mosque of Mohammed Ali (not the boxer :P) which is in place called Cittadella. From there was pretty nice view on a part of the city.
To be honest, I had no idea what to expect when going to Cairo and at the end I wasn't neither dissapointed, neither overwealmth. :)
I knew that many people were living there and as much as I've seen in Sharm, I though it will be more or less dirty as well (plus I've been warrned that that the city is not clean).

The buldings are all more or less brown and looks boring and dull, there's not much of green places either, but still...every capital probably has good and bad points...and so does Cairo.
It's good point is probably the part of GIZA where are the pyramids!

You have to see that! That's really a wonder!! Those things are HUGE and it's really hard to imagine HOW on Earth they built those things so long time ago without any machines!!!!

The second good thing about Cairo was the Museum of Egyptian History. I love it there and was kind of "sad" that we had only 1 hour and half :s

In general the city left good impression on me and those 6 hours of drive was worth. Oh, I only "regret" that we couldn't see the SUEZ channel....

posted by Katie @ 7:43 pm

5 Comments:

At 11:15 am, *JustAShadow* said…

Cairo is way too dirty, even the channel... My capital looks much nicer. OK, here 2 million people live, there 20..
At 10:24 pm, Katie said…

Yeah, that's true that is dirty, even the water and some streets around the pyramids, but around the Egyptian museum was all clean...our city is also much cleaner...and only 250,000 people lives here :)...though in London there are over 7 million people as well and it's rather clean...except China town...
At 9:18 am, *JustAShadow* said…

Yes, the musesm is really nice but a bit crowded for me. But I felt like the arabs do not put much of effort into maintain their heritage from the old Egyptian times: they just make money outta them...
At 10:41 am, Katie said…

When we were in museum wasn't that crowded :) I guess that has something to do with the fact that we came there 2 hours before closing :)
But yes...I agree with you; they don't care about heritage :s which is VERY sad...I mean, what if in few years turists decided not to visit Egypt anymore (which won't ever happen) coz' it's so dirty...than they might realise that it's not ALL about pyramids and other things!
At 10:24 am, *JustAShadow* said…

I am sure it will be too late when they recognize it...