Anyone been to Cairo?

[jberryhill]

3. If anything interesting happens, you'll have a good view

Most of the remote segments you see when things happen are from the Hilton, just across the river.

If you're heading there now, it sounds like you know how be aware of your environment.

People always stay stuff like, "oh you're going there? They just had a riot/bombing/whatever."

The thing is, riots happen in one place at one time. People gather for riots. That's what they are there to do. It's actually kind of hard to stumble into one, or fail to get out of one coming your way.

If the headline for any City is "Worst Riot Ever In City" on Monday, and your arrival is Thursday, you'd be lucky to see any broken glass, even IF the riot was in the part of the City you are visiting.

Cairo is freaking huge. Miles and miles of humanity. There's a tick-box list of the usual things to see. You'll go right by the Sadat memorial on the way in from the airport. A permanent bleacher with his statue as he was standing in his last conscious moment is across the street from a memorial tower. Food for a lot of thought.

If I were going back to Egypt, though, I doubt I'd spend much time there though. I've heard nice things about Alexandria and Luxor. People rave about Sharm al Sheik, but I just don't see the point. There are better beach resorts without going that far.

Vacation? Business? Just taking a look around ?