Cairo, Egypt day 2
I got up early because I had to be ready for the city tour. I went down to the 'common room' for breakfast. It was full of people, I was pleasantly surprised. As it turns out, there is another floor to the hostel. I ended up meeting this Belgian guy who was in Egypt with a bunch of his friends. He invited me and the German couple to come to the pyramids with them that day as they had a mini bus. I had already made a commitment to do the city tour and Lars and Stephanie, so I stuck to my word.
Our driver showed up on time, in his 'limo car' and we headed off towards our first stop the Citadel and Muhammad Ali Mosque. We had to go through security surrounded by a bunch of school kids before entering. But really security seemed nearly none existent. We were greeted by an amazing view of the city. The mosque was amazing inside and out, it took my breath away. After the mosque we headed towards Coptic Cairo, which is the Christian side. We visited a lot of churches! After Coptic Cairo we went to eat lunch, visited some more mosques and then went to the Bazaar. The Egyptians were following us around and screaming a lot of unnecessary comments at us. I thought Morocco was bad, but it's childsplay in comparison to the behaviour of people here in Egypt.
When I got back to the hostel, I had to switch to the dorm room with two other English girls. I went down to GAD to get some food and ended up running into the Belgian guy that I had met that morning and the American guy he was also travelling with called Mitch. We went back to the hostel and ate our food. Afterwards, We ended up catching up with the rest of Guillaume's friends and the English girls. We all went to the ATM because everyone seemed to need money. Then we decided that we wanted to go to a dance club, but nobody knew where to go and it seemed impossible to find. We ended up buying some alcohol and everyone seemed keen on this brand called "Sakara" which is 10% alcohol. We went back to the hostel and sat around the common room drinking, everyone was playing around with the kissing application on my iphone. Next thing I knew, I started to feel really sick, I went to the bathroom and vomited. I'd never felt this drunk in my whole life and I had only had two beers. My mind was spinning, it felt like I was on some sort of crazy drugs. Guillaume's friend Amandine came to the bathroom to help me out, then they put me to bed. At one point the boys came in their drunkenness trying to wake me up, but the others put a stop to it. Luckily I had enough good sense to set my alarm as I was going to the Pyramids the next morning!
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