Cairo and Alexandria

It's being really hectic over the past week, not just going around Cairo but also to the Giza Pyramids and Alexandria which its located on the north east coast of Egypt, right where the Nile River flows into to the Mediterranean Sea.

Cairo, as I said before its chaos if you don't know your way around, even just going across the street you need to be alert at all times if you don't want to be ran over by a taxi (every hour in Egypt a person gets run over) or for any women whom is used to dress of certain way in our side of the world dresses just like they do in their hometown (skirts, tank tops, short shorts, T-Shirts etc.), in Cairo they will attract a good deal of unwanted attention at the subway, Downtown or any other public place. However, there's a side of Cairo that has a Westernized way of thinking and are more open to see foreigners walking around them.

That has become a little issue in the past 2 weeks of my trip. When I go to villages that consist of small alleys were people instantly notice someone that's obviously foreign, but I've taken a few measures to be able to take a frame or two of something or someone I want before they hide their face or yell "NO PICTURE" or yell things I have no idea what they mean but I'm more than sure it's not something nice.

Here are a couple pictures I've being able to get over the week.

A seller at the pyramids smoking a cigarette; I guess he was around 10 or 12 years old. I didn't try to talk to him because all he knew how to say in English was, "NO PICTURE".



One of the passengers at a train at the Egyptian Railways before living to Alexandria.


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She obviously did not like me.