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Since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to go to Egypt and throughout the trip I was looking forward to it, even if it meant that out time in Africa was coming to an end. It was nice to be in Cairo and was a great way to recover from Mount Kilimanjaro. We timed our arrival to Cairo perfectly with the start of Eid and the celebrations that mark the end of Ramadan. I’d never experienced anything like it before. For the 3 days of Eid shops were closed and the streets were empty during the day but alive well into the night. It might be clichéd to say there was a carnival atmosphere but entire families were out, everyone wearing brand new clothes, celebrating. On our second night there we walked down to the Nile to see why the throngs of people crowded its banks but besides the crazy antics of the brightly lit boats pirouetting on the water, people just seemed to want to be outside.