CAIRO -- MISCELLANEOUS PICS
Here are various pics from Cairo outside of the pyramids, city center or Islamic Cairo...

First, the Nile River, as viewed from the Outer Ring bridge at the south end of Cairo...





Speaking of the Nile River, here are a few pics from a Nile dinner cruise one evening...

The boat...





A dancer with a very flamboyant outfit on the cruise...





A belly dancer on the cruise...





The Outer Ring (mostly a freeway) during the weekend...



Typical Cairo traffic during a weekday...



A bad traffic jam...



One more traffic pic (a normally busy part of the Outer Ring but during the weekend)...



The Al-Nour Mosque--very colorful at night...



A suburban mosque (in City Stars) at dusk...



Now for a few trees...

Looking up at a red silk cotton tree (Bombax ceiba) in bloom...



Mangoes grow to a moderate size in Cairo (this one was in bloom)...



Now...a couple pics of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority, where I conducted training...

The headquarters...



The training center...



The forecasting building (note that this building will soon be replaced--the one under construction is visible to the left)...



One last look from the EMA campus (with a lot of trees/plants that are similar to southern California)...



And finally, a dusk view from a suburban neighborhood on the east side of Cairo...



All of the above pictures on this page were taken in January/February 2010 by Brandt Maxwell.

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