From the sky, Cairo looks like a kid’s attempt at drawing an aerial landscape. The lines are too sharp between lush green and dusty desert, the pyramids are too close to the city, and the endless 10-story tan apartment buildings have the uniformity of monopoly pieces. Even the Nile matches a little too well with the textbook picture of a river delta.
Our first day was a bit disorienting because we couldn’t sleep on the plane so we were already up for 24 hours by the time we touched down. After the ordeals of getting our first sim cards and calling an Uber (which we later learned you can pay for in cash here), we stepped outside to a surprisingly comfortable 99 degrees.
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