When he flew over the Sinai Peninsula just now, Zhang Zi'an raised his heart to his throat. It wasn't until the flight landed safely at the airport that he breathed a sigh of relief, thanked all the gods and Buddhas he knew about the East and the West, and was glad that no missile flew from the sky to shoot down the flight, after all, it is not unusual for anything new to come out of this pimple in the Middle East, and after the news reaches China, people will only say: "Do you see it?

Tourism is one of the most important economic pillar industries in Egypt, so the Egyptian government spares no effort to promote the development of tourism, of course, it will not ignore China, an emerging country, to implement visas on arrival for Chinese tourists, because the deeds of Chinese tyrant tourists who spend money to buy and buy have spread all over the world.

Unfortunately, local tyrant tourists who love luxury consumption generally do not go to Egypt, because Egypt does not sell mummies and gold coffins, and there is no way to show off their wealth.

After getting off the plane, Zhang Zi'an had to apply for a visa on arrival, and also apply for an entry certificate for Fina, otherwise it would be easy to bring the cat into Egypt, but it would be difficult to take it out. In addition, he had to buy a data card for surfing the Internet, and he had to pick up Feimas out of the cage - Feimas held it all the way, and as soon as he pulled it out of the cage, he couldn't wait to go to the toilet.

Wei Kang kept talking about this and that, for fear that someone would get lost, or lose his valuable equipment, until everyone got into the taxi to the hotel, he was at ease.

To be reasonable, the interior of Cairo Airport is still very clean, but as taxis head southwest to downtown Cairo, the veil of modern Egypt is slowly lifted.

As the largest city in the Middle East with a population of 20 million, Cairo's urban appearance may not be as good as that of an ordinary county town in China, and it is best described as dirty, chaotic and poor.

Regarding the traffic situation in Cairo, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China wrote in the "Instructions for Chinese Citizens Going to Egypt": Cairo's traffic facilities are relatively old, the traffic order is relatively chaotic, and tourists should pay attention to traffic safety when going out. The main means of transportation in Cairo are taxis, buses and subways, buses pass by the stop sign generally only slow down without stopping, passengers need to climb up and down the speedcar, it is very unsafe, tourists are advised not to try.

Exo_me？

Do passengers need to climb up and down the bus?

Is it true that this is not a trip to India?

After actually seeing it with his own eyes, Zhang Zi'an realized that in order to avoid hurting the great friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples, the wording of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was already very polite - there is no traffic here at all!

After departing from the airport, there was not even a single traffic light along the way, only the traffic police stood in the center of the intersection to direct traffic, acting as a traffic light. The choking exhaust fumes and the incessant sound of horns are distracting, there are so many cars on the road that they look like dumplings, every car moves like a snail crawling, and there are often five cars running in parallel on a three-lane road.

Drivers have tried their best to reach their destinations as soon as possible, without slowing down at intersections, turning without turning signals, and overtaking on the left or right depends entirely on the mood, making people wonder if the driver's license here can be obtained by paying money.

There are almost no luxury cars on the road, and there are very few new cars, and many models that cannot be seen in China and have been discontinued for many years can be seen everywhere here, which is like a museum of classic cars. Egypt has no regulations on the number of years a vehicle can be scrapped, so everyone drives the car until it can no longer be driven and completely scrapped.

Here, Japanese cars such as the new Toyota are already considered luxury cars, and occasionally you can see a few domestic cars, which are popular with locals because they are cheap and durable.

Whether it's a new car or an old car, a private car or a taxi, the surface of each car is potholed, and there is not even a complete piece of patent leather - here, the car can only be considered unlucky if it is scratched, and it is impossible to lose money.

Due to the lack of rain all year round, the whole of Cairo is covered in a grayish-yellow color, and the dust and car exhaust fumes collect near the surface of the earth, which cannot be dispersed for a long time, and the strong sunlight produces a ripple like water ripples.

Zhang Zi'an and the others came in the middle of summer, and they felt even more unbearable when they saw this scene.

He took Fina and Pegasus and sat in the same taxi with Wei Kang, and three men and one woman sat in the other two taxis, because they had too much luggage, so they had to do that.

Fina was even more worried about the backwardness of modern Egypt.

"Huh, why are there so many unfinished buildings in Egypt?" Wei Kang asked suspiciously, observing the scenery of Cairo.

"Unfinished building?" Zhang Zi'an didn't pay attention to this.

Just when the taxi stopped, because the road in front of him was blocked again, Wei Kang pointed to a slightly higher position, "Look, these three- and four-story small buildings don't seem to be capped, and some of them are still exposed with steel bars, as if they won't continue to build halfway through." ”

After his pointing, Zhang Zi'an also looked up and found that it was indeed as Wei Kang said, there was a row of small buildings next to it that was the case, but unlike the unfinished buildings in China, there were obviously people living in these small buildings, and clothes were still drying on the rooftop.

Zhang Zi'an didn't know what was going on, and guessed: "Is there no money for it?"

Wei Kang asked the taxi driver in English, but the driver's English level was really not flattering, and he stumbled word by word, unable to talk about grammar at all, but with gestures, he finally explained the situation clearly.

It turns out that you have to pay taxes after building a house in Egypt, but you don't have to pay for unfinished houses, so ordinary people's houses will never be completed to avoid taxes legally - of course, the premise for this is that Egypt has an extremely dry climate and almost no rain, and if it is replaced by a place where it rains twice in three days, the house can be rowed......

Zhang Zi'an and Wei Kang looked at each other when they heard this, and couldn't help but sigh: The wisdom of the working people is really infinite!

But is it really economical to do this? After all, the top floor is half covered and there is no roof, so who wants to sleep there? The top floor is rented or sold, and no one wants it, right? Even if it can be rented out, it will be very cheap.

The driver also explained that Egypt is completely private ownership of land, and the land will always be your own when you buy it, and you can build as many floors as you want on this land. These three- and four-story buildings are occupied by families, not rented out or sold. In the Arab world, there is a strong sense of clan, and families are expected to live together neatly – as the family population increases, they do not divide the family, but build the building layer upon layer, never to be completed.

Wei Kang prepared a walkie-talkie for each of the team members to strengthen the connection before, and he told the other four people about these things through the walkie-talkie, and everyone was fascinated.