Chapter 1124: Bad Cairo

When flying over the Sinai Peninsula just now, Zhang Zian's heart was in his throat. It wasn't until the flight landed safely at the airport that he breathed a sigh of relief and thanked all the gods and Buddhas of the East and West that he knew. Fortunately, no missile flew from the sky to shoot down the flight. After all, there is nothing new about the Middle East. It's not uncommon. After the news spread to China, people would only say: "Did you see it? I don't want to stay at home, I have to go to Egypt to die! I deserve it!"

Tourism is one of the most important economic pillar industries in Egypt. Therefore, the Egyptian government spares no effort to promote the development of tourism. Of course, it will not ignore China, an emerging country, and implement visas on arrival for Chinese tourists. spread across the globe.

It's a pity that those rich tourists who love luxury consumption generally don't go to Egypt, because Egypt doesn't sell mummies and golden coffins, so they can't show off their wealth.

After getting off the plane, in addition to applying for a landing visa, Zhang Zian also had to apply for an entry certificate for Fina. Otherwise, it would be easy to bring the cat into Egypt, but difficult to take it out. In addition, you have to buy a data card for surfing the Internet, and you have to pick up Femas——Femas held back all the way, and as soon as he was pulled out of the cage, he couldn't wait to ask to go to the toilet.

Wei Kang kept looking at this and that, for fear that someone would get lost, or lose valuable equipment. He didn't feel at ease until everyone got on the taxi to the hotel.

Reasonably speaking, the interior of Cairo Airport is still very clean, but as the taxi headed southwest to downtown Cairo, the veil of modern Egypt was 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 an ordinary county in China. Dirty, chaotic, and poor are the most appropriate words to describe it.

Regarding the traffic situation in Cairo, the website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in the "Instructions for Chinese Citizens Traveling to Egypt": Cairo's traffic facilities are relatively old and the traffic order is relatively chaotic. Tourists should pay attention to traffic safety when going out. The main means of transportation in Cairo are taxis, buses and subways. Buses usually only slow down and do not stop when they pass by the stop signs.

exo_me?

Passengers need to climb up and down the flying car?

Surely this isn't a road trip to India?

After actually seeing it with his own eyes, Zhang Zian realized that in order to avoid hurting the great friendship between the people of China and Egypt, the wording of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was already very polite—there is no traffic here!

After departing from the airport, I didn't even see a traffic light along the way. Only the traffic police stood in the middle of the intersection directing the traffic and acting as human traffic lights. The choking exhaust and the endless sound of horns are disturbing. There are so many cars on the road that it seems like dumplings.

The drivers tried their best to reach their destination as soon as possible. They did not slow down when crossing the intersection, did not turn on the turn signal when turning, and overtaking on the left or right depended entirely on their mood.

There are almost no luxury cars on the road, and there are few new cars. Many models that have been discontinued for many years that cannot be seen in China can be seen everywhere here. It is like a museum of classic cars. Egypt has no regulations on the number of years for vehicles to be scrapped, so everyone drives the car until it can no longer be driven until it is 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 welcomed by the locals because they are cheap and durable.

Regardless of new or old cars, private cars or taxis, the surface of every car is full of potholes, not even a complete piece of paint - here, if the car is scratched, you can only consider bad luck, and it is impossible to lose money.

Since it does not rain all year round, the whole of Cairo is shrouded in a gray-yellow layer. Dust and car exhaust gather near the surface and cannot disperse for a long time. Under the strong sunlight, they shake like water ripples.

It was midsummer when Zhang Zian and the others came,

Seeing this scene made me feel even more unbearably hot.

He took Fina and Femas and took the same taxi with Wei Kang. The three men and one woman sat in the other two taxis, because they had too much luggage, so it was the only way.

Fina was even more worried when she saw the backwardness of modern Egypt.

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

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

Just when the taxi stopped, because the road ahead was blocked again, Wei Kang pointed to a slightly higher position, "Look, these small buildings with three or four floors don't seem to have a roof, and some of them still have steel bars exposed, like If it is half built, it will not continue to be built.”

After his pointing, Zhang Zian also looked up and found that, as Wei Kang said, there was a row of small buildings next to it, but it was different from the unfinished buildings in China. There were obviously people living in these small buildings. Still hanging clothes.

Zhang Zian didn't know what was going on, so he guessed, "Is it because you have no money because of it?"

Wei Kang asked the taxi driver in English, but the driver's English level was really not flattering, he stuttered and jumped out word by word, there was no grammar at all, but with gestures, he explained the situation clearly.

It turns out that after building a house in Egypt, you have to pay taxes, but you don’t have to pay for unfinished houses, so ordinary people’s houses will never be completed to legally avoid taxes—of course, the prerequisite for doing so is that the climate in Egypt is extremely dry , it hardly rains, if it is changed to a place where it rains every two days, you can row a boat in the house...

Zhang Zian and Wei Kang looked at each other and couldn't help sighing: the wisdom of the working people is really infinite!

But is it really economical to do so? After all, the top floor is half covered and there is no roof, so who would want to sleep there? No matter whether the top floor is rented or sold, no one wants it, right? Even if it can be rented out, I'm afraid it will be very cheap.

The driver also explained that Egypt is completely private ownership of land, and the land will always be yours after you buy it. You can build as many floors as you want on this land. The people living in these three or four-story small buildings are all families, and they are not rented out or sold. The concept of clan in the Arab world is strong, and the family should live together neatly—as the family population increases, they will not separate the family, but build up the building layer by layer, never capping finished.

Wei Kang prepared a walkie-talkie for each team member in order to strengthen the connection before. He told the other four people about these things through the walkie-talkie, and everyone was fascinated by it.