More about Cairo Yesterday I got to ride a camel while visiting the pyramids. Camels seem to be very disgruntled creatures, but they're very picturesque in front of the pyramids. Mine was the happiest one of the lot I think. His name was Easy Does It which I found very amusing. :) The ancientness of the old buildings here is staggering. We visited a church that's about 1700 years old, the pyramids and sphynx (of course) and the Citadel of Saladin. It seemed like a lot of things were closed under restoration so we were unable to see some of the other highlights. Driving here is its own adventure. I know taxi drivers everywhere are more aggressive drivers, but here there is no use of lanes, street lights are completely ignored, and honking is used as all means of communication. At one point the other evening we drove past a block with police in riot gear lined up solid along the street. It looked very scary and serious, but there was nothing in the newspaper the next day so we never did figure out what was going on.