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MEMPHIS & SAQQARA
ur next stop took us across Cairo to Mem- and edged with several feet of mostly plastic trash.
phis, or what remains of the capital of Egypt Our guide explained that folks living here kept their
Ofor several centuries. On on the way, traffic homes tidy, but assumed no responsibility for litter
gridlock thinned as we entered farm country where outside their front doors. We did see government
horn-honking cars were replaced by slow-moving workers in a barge cleaning sections of the canal. We
donkey carts. Running parallel to the road was a large also found that most towns and villages outside the
irrigation canal filled with brownish water from the Nile Cairo area were pretty litter and graffiti free.
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