Day walk from Dokki to Mounira

Calle 13 really puts Cairo streets in perspective.

Crates of new sidewalk pavements. From "Arab Contractors".  

They were breaking up this sidewalk in order to instal the new tiles. It was really quite fine, no need to destroy them all. 

Lights were on all over the bridge. At first I thought it was just poor management, but then...

...it was actually because someone was fixing them!
At night this bridge is just a huge party, and it looks really good with the lights and the flags. 

Ugly imposing USA embassy, right in the middle of downtown.

Some art center in GC off of Qasr al-Einy

Poor man digging through the garbage bins. Broken sewer systems. Mounira

And the evening ended around 11 with Yemeni. Mashuiyat, farakh mandi, etc... Great end of the evening :-) with good food, new names, and adopted cats...

Photos: in and around Clot Bey Street

Future entrance to the attaba metro station. Probably for line 3

We originally roamed this street to find jean material from a store named "tutu" so I could get some jean pants made. (1.5 meters= 1pair of trousers=30LE)

To "fan" the  coals, they set up a ventilator. automation. 

Homemade car cover/quilt! nice!

Photos: Grilling Scenes

Photo: Tahrir Street Today, Dokki

Kids playing with huge cardboard boxes on the sidewalk of Tahrir Street. There's a kid inside each of these.

It was hilarious. They were having so much fun :-)

'Aza' (funeral) blocking off Soliman Gohar street at its intersection with Tahrir street. The owner of the juice shop on that same intersection passed away. Soliman Gohar continues behind the photo. This is going to cause big traffic in my neighborhood. 

Photo: Garbage Caterpillar

Ahh, yes, yet another expat ever so fascinated by the effects of a poorly managed waste management system in the developing world...

Might I add, that, as I was taking this photo, a friendly but quite concerned and upset lady exclaimed to me: "Why are you taking photos of GARBAGE!? Why do you have to show the UGLINESS of our country!?"
I quelled her concerns with something along the lines of: "Egypt has beautiful things and ugly things, and it's good to show both. Don't worry, we're going to go to Ibn Tulun mosque after this and take lots of beautiful photos too." She was okay with that. :-)

Here is a pretty much failed attempt of me harnessing the powers of photoshop:

Garbage management in Saida Zeinab, Cairo, Egypt

Here's what the original looked like: