Go alexandria from giza, 3.5 hour bus journey. A lot of oil refinaries at the suburb, belching out large amt of smog, polluting the air - the whole city, from far, can see a layer of brown smog hanging over it. The seaside is very long and people take to the seaside and beach to fishing and enjoy the sea and waves and cafes and water-pipe smoking. Traffic very heavy.
Visit catacomb - group-tomb or like today's memorial. The surrounding area is very dusty and dirty with narrow streets and haphazard, characteristically egyptian un-finished houses. Also go pompeys pillar near by. Then makan along the seaside. Then go library and farukh's gardens and palaces.
Eat in 'tang cheng' chinese reataurant in giza.
what's dust to marathon man is air to many egyptians - their wrapped-up bodies separate most part of them from the dust - their lungs won't be so protected - life within the dust bowl is also life for so many people for as long as history is known to mankind.
alexandria, a city destroyed by the 4th century earth-quake, the city that holds cleopatra's dreams never had it so bad - people do not have any more conscience on cleaning up their acts to make the air, if not particularly clean, at least not that bad - why?
because their rice-bowls literally come from the dust-bowls.
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