1023. Final on Egypt! Cairo, city with millions of people in it!
Today will be mostly pictures, typical of life in Egypt. We were in a very nice hotel, and the attendants both in the hotel, and the bus were very polite, and respectful to us. They were fluent in English, and I asked one man how he learned English. He said by watching American movies! He wasn't married, and planned to buy an apartment before he felt he could afford to be married. The language there is Arabic, and street signs and many other types of signs were both in English and Arabic. We were told to not eat anything raw there, but to make sure it was fully cooked. We all did that, and none of us got stomach ailments. So here are the pictures: mostly in Cairo. In the center of Cairo, there was a wide sort of park in the middle of the streets. We went to a papyrus factory, and they had many scenes on papyri that you could buy -- most quite expensive! ...