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Cairo sunset from the top of the
Kempinski Hotel on the Nile River.

he sun was setting as our Egypt Air jet traffic on our way to the Kempinski Nile Hotel in
circled high above the sprawling city the Garden District in the center of the city.
T of Cairo. From our viewpoint, the city Cairo, the largest city in Africa, is an urban cha-
looked like a vast flat expanse of low-rise Lego- meleon that changes with the light. We traveled
looking buildings with clusters of contemporary back and forth to the airport a number of times
high rises in the distance - all seemed uniformly on this trip, and each drive revealed a different
dusted with fine dark-brown cocoa powder. From face of the city. At night billboards light up the
10,000 feet Cairo looked peaceful – a feeling roads, most touting dramatic new residential de-
that quickly faded as we experienced rush-hour velopments. Other “shortcuts” took us by crum-

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