Lost in Cairo's Gayer Anderson Museum
A little over a decade since I first started planning my trip to Egypt, I finally made it. I was at long last in the land of the great pyramids, where great pharaohs had ruled Egypt for thousands of years. I was finally in the land of the mummies and hieroglyphics. A land where mysteries abound. Of course my first destination was Cairo: the capital of Egypt. I landed at Cairo Airport and was instantly struck at the amount of people everywhere. It's a small airport, so once off the airplane you just walk into the terminal building, watch your plane roll by and see a dozen tour groups waiting to go through immigration. It was crazy. Though busy and crowded with people like Japan, it was busy in a totally different sense. Crowds of people stood around in anything but a line. Tour leaders with dozens of passports in hand would somehow get to that window without havng to wait and then 'poof' his people would be through. I realized...