A most unusual musical group

After spending the afternoon at the Alabaster Mosque, we dropped our suitcases off at the hotel, hopped into a taxi and headed off to the pyramids to see the Sound and Light Show. The show was rather boring but the taxi ride there and back more than made up for it.

Headlights appeared to be optional; there are no traffic lights and motorized vehicles share the road with an assortment of pedestrians, bicycles, donkeys, horsedrawn carriages and camels. No one uses signals, they just honk their horn as they pass by. The main object seemed to be to pass whatever is in front of you as fast as possible. I just shut my eyes and braced myself for the crash. Surprize, surprize, no crash. We made it there and back in one piece. I must say that the streets of Cairo were never boring.

This is picture is rather dark. Of course it was night time and I am not an expecially good photographer, but if you look closely you can see the head of the Sphinx in the center. As the narrator told his story the lights would change color and move between the pyramids, sphinx and a slide show on the long wall in the front.

When the show was over we headed back to meet up with our taxi driver when we walked by this rather unusual musical group. If you look closely you will see that this is a bagpipe ensemble.

I just love Egypt!