I landed in Cairo during the night. Watching the driving on the way to the hotel was interesting. Lanes are used if there is nowhere else to drive. At night, you might consider having you lights on, but probably not. While most of the traffic is cars, almost everything can be on the road. This include people on foot, donkey carts, moterscooters and bicycle trucks.

I started the day at the Fulbright office and then when to the university. The computer departments are in the stat. building. The stat. building and the campus networking support is just off of the main campus. The dome is the center of the main campus. Traffic everywhere is very dense, with horn going all of the time. The horn has to do with where they drive. The horn indicates you are in the way, I need a little space. So the traffic moves around to let the car into that space. People work the same, you walk through traffic, do not run or they will not know where you will be. If you are closterphobic, the cars around you would be bad.

Everywhere in Cairo you see cats. In the hotel area, very few are well fed, but almost all are in very good shape, if a little thin. They largely wait until night, and can handle traffic very well (one lane only).

The Safir hotel has a two story aviary in with a neat collection of birds. (picture 44 is the front of the hotel. Following that are some pictures of the hotel area from my window).