Cairo! The pollution & fog are stuck in the city and creating a haze that isn't so fun. If I looked really hard, I could see the outline of the pyramids as I was entering the hotel but they were too far away to show up in a photo. I'm on Day 13 of the trip and am officially on hotel burn-out. (Mainly due to the fact that housekeeping told me I could only keep the iron for one hour and I pitched a fit and now have my iron.) There's also no in-room coffee so I have to wander downstairs and wade through the sea of happy pyramid-hopping tourists to get to the coffee bar. Yes, even in the coolest city in the world, I can be travel-jaded. But I love Cairo and I'm glad I'm here.
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