As soon as we landed in airport, we book a private hire car to get to our hostel for the night. Heard so much about the headache and unpleasant experience using taxi service in Cairo online. This is just the last thing we want to experience for our trip.
The traffic so far is smooth on our way out of airport.
We are so used to having greenery around airport forgotten that we are in the area surrounded by desert. This explain the missing of garden or greenery around airport?
Our finger and phone get into turbo mode working very hard almost immediately snapping photo all the way. Is good that this car come with sun roof, those who sit near the door can shoot through window while those in the middle can shoot through the top.
We run into the massive traffic of Cairo once we are out of airport highway.
Since it is the evening peak, our journey to hostel took a slightly longer time. We actually don't mind as this give us even more time to observe the day to day life of Cairo.
The driver double up as our guide and point to us the railway station. Looking at the heavy traffic infront of the station, we really need to plan our journey carefully in order not be late for our train the next day.
This is my first panoromic view of Cairo taken from my hostel window. The scene looks so familiar as I have seen this place many time and even racing down these road in the video games Asphart 9. Yet it is now totally unfamiliar with so many places to explore in the coming days.
As soon as we are done with the check-in to the hostel, the host seem very kind and ask us if we wanted to visit the "new" museum. He can arrange transport to bring us there and return. Again, we been hearing so much online to be very mindful the very "innovative" selling when in Egypt be it as simple as buying a bottle of drinking water to getting service such as transport/ticket. We are certainly interested as we been talking about visiting the new soon to be opened Grand Egyption Museum (GEM). When we ask the host if he is arranging us to visit this new Grand Egyption Museum (GEM), he keep saying will bring us to the NEW museum and avoid to acknoledge GEM. Our check on the official GEM website showing that it is not open yet. By the way, we were quoted USD150 for the transportation and it is super super expansive in any standard. Our journey from airport is just few dollars. Our instint tell us that when in doubt, don't do it. We are glad we did.😊
We have been warned when browsing through the travel advisories and I am sure this is just the first scenario of many more to come...
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