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Chapter 448 Cairo people's coming-of-age ceremony
After putting away his things and putting on the appropriate clothes again, Ye Kai is ready to go out for a walk on the streets of Cairo...Take the elevator downstairs and pass the lobby...

"Mr. Ye!"

Being called to stop, Ye Kai looked back and found that it was the girl at the front desk who checked him in before.

"Hi, is there anything else?"

He thought that there were still some formalities that he hadn't gone through and he had to go through them himself. After all, this was a country he had never been to, so it was normal to have any special procedures to go through.

"No, is Mr. Ye coming to Egypt for the first time? It's better not to eat the snacks on the street outside. It's better to go to a bigger restaurant, or our hotel also has a restaurant."

"Well, I understand."

It turned out to be a reminder to himself, Ye Kai smiled, nodded slightly to express his gratitude, and said: "Thank you for the reminder, I will pay attention."

After walking out of the hotel, Ye Kai went straight to the Nile River, without any luggage or computer on his body, only a mirrorless camera that Ye Kai took with him to take pictures of the scenery he saw in Cairo.

The Nile River has always been one of the lifeblood of the earth's civilization. The river flows to the feet of Cleopatra, Joseph, Moses, the Crusaders and the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. These well-known figures in Africa have bathed in this river.

People in Egypt have always believed that this river is a unique gift given to them by God.

Having such a wide river on such a continent full of dry yellow sand is of course the love of God for this land, and it is precisely because of this that there is such a mysterious civilization as ancient Egypt.

On the banks of the Nile River in the new urban area, a platform was specially built for tourists to stop and watch the Nile River. They walked down the steps step by step to the river. When standing in front of the railing, the Nile River was only about one or two meters away from Ye Kai.

There are yachts, fishing boats, and merchant ships in the river. The old fisherman driving the fishing boat is smoking and staring at the bottom of the river, as if he has a pair of eyes that can see through the Nile.

Most of the yachts are tourists, and the laughter and laughter echoed over the Nile River layer by layer, making this ancient and serious river full of the breath of the new era.

The river wind blew past, and the clothes Ye Kai was wearing were tightly attached to his body.

The temperature here is lower, and because it is by the river, the air on this platform is not too dry. If you just look at the area in front of you, maybe no one will think that this is Egypt.

Ye Kai snapped a few photos.

After the comfortable wind blows enough, I turn around and leave to find a place to eat.

Although the beauty at the front desk reminded Ye Kai not to eat food in Cairo indiscriminately, Ye Kai was already mentally prepared. Although he had never been to Egypt, he had been to Africa.

No matter how poor the food here is, it cannot be worse than Zambia.

After writing down the map of this place, Ye Kai can roughly know his position when walking on the street. If he exceeds the map, he will take out his mobile phone and write it down again to ensure that he will not get lost.

However, if you can speak Arabic and English, you should not be able to find your way in Cairo. After all, you can ask passers-by.

The place Ye Kai is going to is the old city of Cairo, but he is now facing a problem.

That is across this road.

He had never found it difficult to cross a road in his life, but now he encountered it.This road has four lanes, and there are four lanes on the opposite side that go left, so you need to pass through eight lanes to pass this road.

But Ye Kai walked a long way and didn't see the traffic lights.

The traffic flowed in clusters and never stopped, just like an intersection in a busy street.What is amazing is that these cars can still drive very steadily without traffic lights.

And people who want to cross the road all cross the past.

To be honest, Ye Kai really didn’t want to cross the road, but after walking a long way without seeing a traffic light, he was already wondering if there was no such thing as a traffic light in Cairo?
But when I drove over, I obviously saw it.

This is a new town!
There is no other way, the farther you go now, the farther you will return after crossing the road, Ye Kai can only follow the group of people who are about to cross the road to cross this wide road.

This is a family of five, a couple with three children.

The oldest child was twelve or thirteen years old, and the two younger ones, a boy and a girl, were both under five years old. They were hugged by their parents. Seeing Ye Kai's nervous look, the man asked in Arabic:

"Are you a tourist?"

Ye Kai nodded and said, "Of course."

His eyes kept looking at the cars coming from the right, there were too many of them, which made Ye Kai, who was walking on the road, feel like he was playing some kind of dodging game, but luckily the speed of the cars was very slow.

The man found that Ye Kai could speak Arabic, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, friend, you can walk across this road with your eyes closed. There is a saying that I don't know if foreigners have heard of it, and that is the coming-of-age ceremony in Cairo. Got hit by a car on the road once."

"Huh? Getting hit by a car for the coming-of-age ceremony?"

What does it mean?Has everyone in Cairo been hit by a car?Ye Kai had already passed the first road when he spoke, and Ye Kai, who had completed half of the achievement of crossing the road, felt a little relaxed.

It doesn't seem to be very dangerous.

The cars here drive very slowly in the urban area, because people often run out from the front, so the speed of the car is stable at a speed that can stop the car with one foot of the brake.

In another family, the two adults who were crossing the highway were both carrying their children, and basically crossed these lanes at a steady and uniform pace, much more skilled than Ye Kai.

"Yes, haha, friend, are you an international student at Cairo University?"

"No, I'm not a student anymore."

"Then you speak Arabic quite well. It seems that this is your first time in Egypt, so you started learning Arabic very early, right?"

Yes, started learning from yesterday...

"I have learned various languages ​​since I was a child, but it is indeed the first time I came to Egypt. I was shocked by the scenery and history, but it was the traffic...that gave me a headache."

"Hahaha."

When he arrived at the other end of the road, Ye Kai was already sweating from his back, and stuck his thin clothes on his back, looking back at the two roads...

Traffic flowed like weaving.

If he really didn't dare to do this in Huaxia, it would be too dangerous.

The Arabs who came with Ye Kai looked about 40 years old. The men wore short-sleeved red and white stripes and jeans, and the women wore black Arab-style robes that covered their heads, with only one face exposed.

They are all tanned, but overall they don't look like the blacks in South Africa.

After passing through these cars, they put the children on the ground and let them walk by themselves, and said to Ye Kai: "My friend, I wish you a pleasant journey."

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After bidding farewell to this episode, Ye Kai quickly came to the old city of Cairo along a street.That is the legendary city of gold.

The old city is far away from the Nile River, and the air is dry and there is no wind.When walking in this kind of place, you must pay attention to your mentality. The more impatient you will feel, the hotter you will feel.

The old street where Ye Kai walked was only three or four meters wide, and there were shops on both sides, but the shops were small, so the bosses took up part of the street to display their products.

This is like many small alleys in China. There are all kinds of goods, but most of them are handicrafts or souvenirs.

There are lifelike desert wolves, Egyptian cats, miniature Egyptian statues, steles and more.

Occasionally, he could hear some western-style music. Ye Kai followed the sound to trace the past, but it was not played by street performers, but by the owner of the shop.

This looks like a pedestrian street, but cars can actually come in.

People give way to the car, and the car gives way to others. Sometimes the car can't move anymore, so they honk the horn... The owner of the shop will come out and put away a little tent for the sunshade when he hears it, so that the car can pass by.

There are too many people in Cairo.

The city is not big, but its population is equal to the total population of Australia. They are all crowded in this crowded and sprawling city, and there is not enough space for cars or people.

On the first day, Ye Kai noticed a completely different scene from the cities he had been to before.

(End of this chapter)