Cairo | TravelWorld Photography

Cairo

Cairo is a city of about 10 million people, and additional 10 million live in the surrounding area. The whole city is like a beehive of sights, sounds and smells. City traffic hardly followed western law and practices. We stayed a few days getting a feel of the city, and visiting the Pyramids, the Egyptian Museum.

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map of our travel from Cairo to Aswan and down the Nile, Ending in Hurgjada

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Heading across the Nile towards the city center

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A wide street, with 5 lanes in each direction

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The traffic becomes more chaotic

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And finally - a traffic grid-lock

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This seems to be a normal day in Cairo

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People relaxing in a quiet spot

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The Great Mosque in Cairo

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Inside the Mosque

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Decorated ceiling I

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Decorated ceiling II

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A door to an inner chamber

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Entrance to the Papyrus Museum in Cairo

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Works of art on real papyrus - not the tourist kind kind on the streets

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The owners of the museum. We purchased a picture of old ceremony ships

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Street scene - a man in a western suit, and the woman as a "moving black object"

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Street scene II

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Street scene III

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A man selling nuts

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A man in a Palestinian scarf

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Having lunch with our travel party of 16 persons (all English except us four from Norway)

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Traveling on a rural street

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A woman with her herd of sheep