Diary: The Land of the Pharaohs
Recording 5. And here it is – the Land of the Pharaohs!
In recent years, I have been scrutinizing not only life and living in the countries I have conquered. In particular, I am very interested in the quality of roads and accidents on them. So, I have repeatedly read in the press about the ugly management and high accident rate in Egypt. And so it is! Even on a high-speed one-way highway you can meet a car moving calmly to you directly head-on in . After such extreme you involuntarily have to take a break. The road from the border to the city of Alexandria is terrible! I flew into potholes several times until I reduced my speed to a minimum. Finally, there was a connection on the phone. I immediately called Kostya Kasper in Moscow. He shouted into the receiver that right after the round-the-world race I should come to him for a vacation in Moscow. He wished me smooth roads.
On the roads of Iran.
Well, Egypt is a very interesting country! Compared to Libya, where there are a lot of policemen, but no weapons, here there are just as many, and almost all of them have automatic rifles or pistols. It turns out that more than 20 years ago martial law was declared here, but, apparently, they forgot to cancel it. Or maybe they just got used to these military toys? However, by and large, this does not prevent guests and tourists from having a vacation in this country.
During the journey from Alexandria to Cairo, namely, when there were exactly 160 km left to Cairo, a very interesting combination of numbers appeared on the speedometer – 55,555 km. Nice! Lucky. Lucky, isn't it?
The capital of Egypt itself seemed a bit different to me. It does not have the clarity and structure as in Europe. There are no beautiful megacities like in America. The city looks gray and somehow unattended. One gets the impression that people have moved out of the upper floors, which makes the houses seem unfinished (or maybe there is really no one to finish them?). Just like all 25 million residents have no time to improve their city. You have to be trained like a stuntman to drive around the city properly. Thank God I have experience driving on such roads! By the way, there are only a couple of traffic lights in Cairo. No accidents. Well done.
Yes, if it wasn't for the mark in History, the pyramids and other ancient values, I don't think Cairo would have such fame….
The first pyramids I saw took me back in time. I clearly imagined with what labor people erected these structures so that we could see them after many centuries. Bow down to them!
There are a lot of people at the pyramids, especially foreigners. And here it is also Friday, a day off in the country. Many locals, as soon as I drove up to the observation platform with the flag of Kazakhstan flying, immediately abandoned their camels and wanted to be photographed with my "iron horse".
