hey Erin.
have had a great, unforgettable two days, been ripped off some places, treated well in others, seen the pyramides, rode a camel, went to the worlds most famous mosque and sat around inside, had lunch and chicha in the city of the dead (the heavily islamic and poorest part of Cairo) with my taxi driver and his friends. i went on a pretty touristy cruise along the nile, and there was a belly dancer, people playing bongos and this other guy who seemed to never stop spinning on the spot.
the city is filthy,polluted, incredibly noisy, the roads are crazy and people are always trying to rip you off, but its amazing and at the same time poeple have been so nice here. There is a weird dynamic in this city with the pyramides, just outside of Giza, towering over all but a few modern sky scrapers.
To think that thousands of years ago this was possible, makes you feel small, as im sure it does for the people of Cairo. To think that it was once such a great, thriving and avant-guarde civilisation, and now is a low income, developing country can't help but render the modern city a dissapointment. All, it seems, in the appeasement of the Prophet Mohammad, even the city's largest Mosque having been built from the stripped granite of the Great Pyramides, of this i'm not quite sure what to think. The sand from the dessert runs thick in the air of cairo, blanketing all the buildings in a thick layer of dust, the net effect being a potent, shadow-casting past to carry on Islamic shoulders.
Today is my last real day here, tomorrow i have to get up early and go to the airport to go back to paris, so i am having a slow morning, following that i will go for a walk and then finally to the khan el-khalili markets.
love you
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yuk but cool.
its a shame what has happened to it, but i imagine that when egypt was in its hey day only like four people were reaping the benefits including whoever was sexing cleopatra.
you should also send me an email soon
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