Home from Cairo!
June 5th, 2005
On our longest trip together yet, we spent 10 days in Cairo, Egypt. I had to go for work and it worked out that Juanjo could join me (at the last minute–he bought his ticket two days before we left–and it cost him less than it cost me!). The trip was an adventure for us, and a lesson in a new and very different culture. We visited our first mosques, and felt how deeply religion marks the daily lives of Muslims. We braved the local taxis, careening along streets that seemed to have no rules other than to look out for other people and never stop–not even at red lights! It gave a whole new meaning to the phrase “drive defensively”.
Then of course we saw the pyramids, beginning with the oldest pyramid in Egypt, a step pyramid that is more than 5000 years old, and ending at the grand pyramids of Giza.