Egypt
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Egypt pictures. Images of Cairo's streets, people and daily life. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a gigantic city of more than 15 million people - it's old, it's noisy, it's overcrowded, it's chaotic and if you like this kind of place, it's absolutely stunning. A city where having traffic lights or lanes is completely pointless (as someone put it: a red light is only an opinion), where you'll find an incredible number of both gracious minarets and shapeless concrete buildings (with the ubiquitous black Ladas zigzagging among them), where people are extremely friendly and greet foreigners with loud 'Welcome!' cries (and I don't mean the ones trying to sell you something), where you often find the friendliest people in the darkest alleys where you didn't think was a good idea to go in the first place.
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Drying clothes are present even among the mausoleums of the North Cemetery
Authentic Egyptian kiosk (apparently a Cadbury and Coca Cola-reseller)
You can find shops, coffee houses, garages, and even a post office in the North Cemetery
The North Cemetery can be a rather daunting place if you haven't met the locals yet
Friendly locals in the cemetery who invited us for a tea and told us a few things about the place
People walking freely on 4-lane boulevards (pedestrians have right of way if they want to)
El-Fishawy coffee house in the middle of Khan el-Khalili bazaar
Midan Tahrir, the main square of Cairo, and the sign of Sadat underground station
From 1000-year-old Al-Azhar mosque to 20th century pink paint
Shantytown-architecture mingling with minarets and mausoleums in the North Cemetery
A Cairo street sign - there are also many street signs in latin letters but they're not easy to find
This part of Cairo is a gigantic set of cramped blocks of flats (west of the Nile)
'Walk like an Egyptian' (the secret of crossing a road like this quickly, according to a local)
Beautifully calligraphed sign of a dermatologist in Midan Tahrir
Cairenes like to make use of the advertising space on their balconies
