The Biggest City In Africa

Well, we just finished our first day in Cairo and man, is it smelly here. Nearly all the people smoke and there's garbage lining the streets. It's quite interesting though, the food is very different. I've been spending the day trying to figure out exactly what spices I've been tasting...Paprika? or is it Cumin? Eh, I'll figure that out later. Anyways, I just have to warn you that the traffic here is insane and we actually get armed escorts when crossing the streets. I've seen donkeys and camels in the streets, along with people walking through traffic and nearly getting pasted by oncoming trucks. I think dad and I look really touristy, because every taxi that goes by us stops and honks. I blame dad, he wears this floppy fishing hat on the streets when it's really sunny. We took a long walk in the morning and went up near the pyramids, and this guy crossed the street and tried to get us to go into this area off the beaten path. He said it was a stable, and he finally convinced us to go in. Dad said to be prepared to run whenever he said so. We went into the place and passed this guy who was rolling cigars. The man who led us in put his scarf around my neck and put me on a camel and made dad lead me around on it. Man, it was huge! I felt like a giant! I must have been ten feet tall. Anyways, the man, Muhammad, demanded that dad give him five dollars for the ride/picture, which he had said was free, so we gave him two dollars and called it good.