One of us had visited Egypt emptied of tourists in the first Gulf War. We took off from Sharm el Sheikh one week before a plane, with mostly French tourists, crashed in the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. We also had time to unpack this time our bags ...
Some images seen on TV since returning surprise me a bit. Others we are easier to analyze.
Firstly there is no camel tassel at the Centre of Cairo, or horses decked. The small cavalry charge shown on TV could come of "benefit tourism" Giza, completely idle since the "closure" of the great pyramids of Cairo suburb, and eventually paid for expressing their opposition to the opposition.
Most women interviewed live are bareheaded, while over 90% of Egyptian women cover their hair with a veil. Interpretation?
The Egyptian Museum is very close to the heart of the action. The room lighting is mostly natural and overhead (large glass panels in the ceiling), where a certain risk with incendiary bombs.
In a city normally so checkered and police guardians of all kinds, their absence should make a big void.
With all the rubble stored on the flat roofs of buildings (for not paying their removal, according to an innkeeper), it is important enough to set up barricades, which would not stop the tanks, but other vehicles Certainly.
The events should not be further insurgency: one of the presidential palace is located 2 km from the square, moderately well defended (just large grids), the Assembly and a number of ministries are at 1 km (ditto).
Where to spend the tens of thousands of vehicles that pass by every day this neighborhood, with traffic jams? What is the life of other neighborhoods in this city of 18-22 million people? A camera lens "focus".
A source of information, as appropriate evidence, in other emotionally charged enough, is to find forums on travel, which of course http://www.routard.com/ .
forum, usually a "mine" quite personal, both for the practical detail and / or reinsurance on the quality of a service, but also for the lazy or / is said to want to leave 10-15 days in a country and expects that it replaces a guide-book or a travel agency, without even looking at comparable previous posts on this topic ... behavior "consumer" quite interesting.
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