| Page Views: 1,625 Last Visit to Cairo: December, 2002 | Cairo by shelnlin - last update: Aug 4, 2006 |
Cairo is by far the most busiest city that I have ever been to, if I remember correctly. Cairo is home to well over 16 million people. That?s incredible to me considering my own country (New Zealand) has only 4 million inhabitants.
Cairo is an ancient city and is filled with history and adventure. I will never forget my experiences with locals who were forever asking for baksheesh (tips) from me. Even when I told them politely in Arabic La Shukran (no thank you) it still didn't help me to get rid of them. Coming in from Saudi Arabia, I would have assumed that I would be left alone, even the bloody waiter who I affectionally named Mosquito would hover around just that little bit more hoping and praying I might just give him a tip after having a Hot chocolate in the Hotel?s Lounge.
But aside from that and away from all the baksheesher?s in the world of Egypt, I managed to enjoy myself. I saw an amazing lot of history and it was a great experience to be able to visit. I was re tracing both my Grandfather's footsteps for both of them had been here during World War two. When coming back from Saudi Arabia last year to visit my family at Christmas, my surviving Grandfather Doug and I had lots to talk about, he too had learnt a bit of Arabic, his however was Egyptian Arabic and mine Syrian. Although some of the words were a little different we were able to converse with each other as if it was an unspoken language and no one in our family had a clue what we were saying!
"He who hath not seen Cairo, hath not seen the world" ~ taken from the book 1001 Nights |
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| Pros: | "An amazing and colourful city which oozes a lot of character and personality" | | Cons: | "Baksheesh, Baksheesh, Baksheesh" | | In A Nutshell: | "I think my Pro's sums Cairo up!" |
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sayedaburas Wed Jan 9, 2008 03:03 UTC
Fantastic job... Shelly ! Pls let me know how can I help you in your editing works on pure friendly basis..... | Khalid_eg Wed Jul 26, 2006 14:46 UTC
Glad that u loved my country :), hope to c u there again someday :)).. hey, how u spent ur days in Saudia Arabia.. i'm somehow bored here in Riydh .. | ukirsari Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:52 UTC
crossing fingers to meet you someday ... yes, emotion >> but it's not about moody things. i realize, so easy to create enemies but taken 'thousand years' to make a friendship! hugs!!!! Allah hafidz :) | FruitLover Wed Feb 8, 2006 22:52 UTC
Are you still in connection with Egyptian people, Shell? |
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