What Scotch Comes In A Green Bottle

J29 - Ma 'Salama Misr!

Alarm tone. It is 6:30 am. Hard to emerge as the night was difficult. Close bags. A penny glance out the window or you can see the Cairo awakening.

Latest look at the room.

A taxi waiting for us ... a rotten old Fiat driver but the self-proclaimed "Number One is nice. Corks incredible at this time yet morning. Mini out of gas in the middle of highway but quickly settled because we had a bottle in the trunk. Arrival at the airport and on-conditioning (not very surprisingly) completely disorganized. Will we find all our luggage on arrival?

Travel . Everything goes as planned. Landing in Geneva after crossing the Alps.

Train to the train station and finally B for Lyon. I caught a cold because of the excessive air conditioning, but he good in that Tuesday in September (2006) in Rhone-Alpes.

Panoramas Egyptian ...

Cairo and major cities ...

Siwa oasis and ...

Aswan and the Nile ...

Here, our journey ends. Can not have a final and simple on this country. If the civilization of the pharaohs is absolutely incredible, if geography is breathtaking and changes in splendor, modern Egypt is disturbing and difficult to understand. Strange mixture of modernity, tradition, religion and especially of diversity in different places.
Hospitality exists but has been completely distorted or obscured by the mass tourism which gradually lost its soul to this great country. Remain beautiful encounters with Mohamed Fathi, Hamdu, Carmen, Abed Ali, Francoise Bernard, Anne Laurent (and friend) and others, anonymous or not all of which are slices of lives on this earth that we n never forget it quite ...

Main expenses of the day:

Taxi: 50 LE (Downtown Cairo - Airport)

few tips ...
- Dressing
- Budget
- Transport
- Housing
- Mosquitoes?
- Heat
- Egyptians
- The Food

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