Hotel: Santana Hotel
While the hotel is nothing special to write home about, it is in a concave isn’t and safe location. Cairo doesn’t have that same nasty Muslim bite as Delhi did. It is extremely Muslim but doesn’t make me feel like my skin is crawling... yet.
So far we have seen the light show on the pyramids and visited them in the daylight. They are truly magnificent. We got to climb into one of the pyramids and check out one of the rooms.
We also went to Islamic Cairo. It’s an area with a ton of churches and mosques. We visited the St. Barbara church, Ben Ezra synagogue, and the Hanging Church. I’m so churched out by now. They all just seem to blur.
We stopped for lunch at McDonalds because everything was super overwhelming this morning. Traffic is loud. People are always harassing you at tourist sites. The heat is incredible. I’m hungry. Given the location of our lunch, we stumbled upon the Nilometer, which used to measure the Nile in times of flood. It is on this gorgeous site where you’ve got great views of the Manastary Palace and the Nile.
Our afternoon was spent walking around the Saladin Citadel. It contains a few mosques and museums. We went to go see the mosque of Muhammad Ali. It apparently is comparable to the Haifa Sophia in Istanbul. I disagree. The one in Istanbul was magnificent. This one is kinda meh.
Coffee is not a thing here so I have a wicked caffeine headache.
We start our tour tomorrow.
AFN
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