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You’ve arrived in Cairo and you’re pumped to see the Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum. This is normal. Many people come here dreaming about a land filled with camels and turbans and Tutankhamen and find it they do, though this land is also filled with 20 million other people and their cars. 

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You’re in Cairo. Whoa. It feels pretty post-revolutionary up in here. It’s so post-revolution, it almost feels pre-revolution. See what I’m saying?

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Cairo is a city that does not love you back. It returns your warm embrace with arms of steel wool and then bonks you over the head with a frying pan before robbing you, pushing you on the ground, kicking you in the stomach and then saying it hates your blog.

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September 2005—It was mid-afternoon on an excruciatingly hot day in the Valley of The Kings, Egypt. I was spending a few days on a Nile cruise, and each day the boat would stop for an excursion of some type. On this particular day our group boarded a shuttle van to view some pyramids and tour an alabaster factory. The alabaster factory was the last stop of the day. The intense heat of the Saharan September could only be described as oppressive. The heat came from above and seemed to come from below as well. It just bounced off the sandy Sahara with no reprieve in sight.

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There is no way you can see all there is to see in Egypt in one trip. While every guidebook seems to have its own priorities, here are a few things that some books may have missed: 

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Driving in Cairo is like a hyper real version of Super Mario Kart, except everyone is Bowser.  The same basics still apply: do not commit yourself to one lane, try to take out your opponents at all times, and get to your finish line as soon as possible.