It is impossible to visit Egypt and do not climb the pyramids. It is strictly forbidden and saying that you rested on the Black Earth Ta-Kemet, if you did not look at the sfinx face-ragged face and did not go, the mother's intense traffic, along the loaded tracks of Cairo.
It is difficult for me to believe that there is a more crazy city on Earth than the Egyptian capital. Every day to 18 million permanent residents of the territory, twice as inferior to the "nonresin", join 4 million of those who are in a hurry to work. All this twitching brethren, dressed in black and white galabians, is found on 5 bands of the urban movement flowing into each direction. There are no rules and elementary driver's courtesy - on the streets of Cairo is the right one who is rageneel signals. Prepared $ 10 per penalty, you can go to towards the movement, and paying it and getting a cherished receipt, continue to violate the rules. After all, it is fined here only once a day. In Cairo, there is hardly at least one car without visiting an accident. And the luxurious Toyota, and the narrow tricks of Suzuki - everyone worn traces of a close acquaintance with other participants in the crazy traffic.
But not uniform roads of Slavna Arab capital. Hidden palm trees that are breathing in pots, peacefully cohabites with the mountains of garbage, grown next to elite hotels. The wide river Nile, tightened into the veil almost that London smog, a diet, as a sad South Bug, flowing through my native Ukraine. Majestic residences like hidden behind the high fence of the residence of the infamous president of Mubarak, divorces Cairo with Hupi Bedouins and another urban "landmark" - self-set. 163,000 two-, three-, five-, or even ten stores that grew up along a 76-kilometer bypass, you will not find any card. Houses built without permits and norms are not equipped with light nor water - local amenities have to "borrow" from lamppost columns and store generators.
The city of contrasts shocks its unpredictability. Two steps from the Cairo Museum, which became a house for hundreds of thousands of relics of the long-lasting era of the gods and pharaohs, dwells tanks and a bodies. Infinite queues from tourists are crawling the snake between the ranks of armed automatic machines in Balaklas, guarding the main square of the country from the next Arab "Maidanov". And the company buses with inscriptions "Tez-Tour", "Pegas" yes "Tui" makes up the burned out of the inside of Mahina once a majestic white house.
True the image of a strange Cairo controversial duet - old as the world, the pyramids scratching the heavenly arch, and the annoying, as if flies, Bedouins, ready to sell everything for a dollar - even mummy.