Egypt Day 1

All those stories I had heard of people waiting six hours in Cairo airport were perhaps a little exagerated as I swear we were through the whole process in less than half an hour. We met our representative called Hany and we were off. Its funny how easily one forgets what its like to be in a large, third world city; the pollution! the traffic! the noise! the smell! All came flooding back. We stayed at our hotel Aman which was rather like a dive but we had Nile views from our 12th floor room (see photos). There wasn't much to do but eat really and go to bed as the next day was going to be long. However, lucky old us (sarcastic) there happened to be a wedding on the 13th floor Restaurant. In turn, thumping bass of Arabic dance music (strange thought) pulsated through the floor, intermittingly intrerrupted by Egyptian shreiking (a women thing) until the wee hours of the morning. Despite wanting to kill them I couldn't help but also want to go up and join in.