Downtown Cairo

Here are some pictures of the city, mostly from the car as we didn't exactly walk around and explore. There seemed to be a lot of buildings under construction, but the guide said they've been that way for years, and nothing is really legal. A developer will just start building without having any roads or utilities in place, not even sewers, and then once the building is up, they expect the government to come back and make it habitable, but the land lord gets to start renting it- and keep the building, so it's really messed up and is a huge issue in the city. Being that the government is not functioning= they aren't able to fix the buildings= there are hundreds of empty 1/2 finished buildings. Also, the city is in a desert, so sand everywhere. The highways and ring-roads have sand dunes on the sides, and then garbage piles up, and then more sand. In some parts of the highway the off-ramps had an 1-2" of sand which was just like snow- makes it very slippery as you are trying to slow down.