We flew from Munich to Cairo on a nice EgyptAir plane and arrived at 8:30pm local time. It was awesome. We turned to each other and said, “We’re in Cairo!”
Our Ramses Tour guide met us and took us to a car and then began an adventurous ride into the city. Lines don’t mean a thing on the highway as cars were all over the place and more often than not, not driving “between the lines”. There was a lot of honking and cutting off and slipping between cars. We just enjoyed the sights on both sides of the road. Haha.
Driving through the poor part of town, it was fascinating to see half-built buildings and partially destroyed buildings with no glass in the windows and people living in every square foot. Rooms were pretty bare and clothes were hanging over balconies. It’s intriguing to consider what it must be like to live this way.
We exited the well paved, well lite highway and turned immediately onto a rough dirt road. Now we were truly in the non-tourist part of the city where everything was in Arabic, people were walking all around, and we saw all these little shops and cafes. It was totally cool!
Finally back on a paved road and we saw the pyramids ahead. We pulled up to a hotel that at first couldn’t convince us it was a 5-star. We thought there might have been a mistake with our booking. But after we walked through a side courtyard, and through metal detectors, we entered a lobby that convinced us otherwise. Le Sphinx Hotel, across the boulevard from the pyramids, is great.
We dined at the outdoor restaurant on the roof and enjoyed the light of the full moon and the view of the pyramids.
Sweet stuff! Thanks God, for the experience. We’re looking forward to more of it…
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