The Streets of Cairo

I have had to go to the Australian Embassy several times over the past few weeks and have found myself experiencing what most Cairenes go through every day. Living and working in Maadi we can mostly avoid this as we can walk to most places we want to go. However, being stuck in traffic is a daily reality of most of the city with travel times of one to one and half hours to work being common. Here is what I looked at for about an hour:

- Mel, October 2009