What I had heard would not be on another level were the Egyptian women. Egyptian women have the reputation of being nearly impossible for foreigners to sleep with. Imagine this beginning to a trip⦠my connecting flight from Istanbul to Italy was delayed and the airline gave me an even later flight to Cairo. When I arrived in Cairo it was after am. As I waited for my luggage I looked at the screenshot on my phone of my hotel reservation for the night.
Shit⦠I needed internet. I asked around a bit and a 30 year old Egyptian guy let me use his internet so I could look up the address of my hotel. Then I waited and waited, but my luggage never appeared. Mohamed noticed me staying behind and offered to help me find it.
I was a bit paranoid that he was being too friendly, but accepted the help. Mohamed offered to share an Uber and he could drop me off at my hotel on the way to his house. It turns out he had just come from Ukraine. I had just spent 6 months in Ukraine, studying Russian and we talked about the ridiculously hot women that the country has. It turns out Mohamed is one cool Egyptian dude. Usually my trips to new countries work like clockwork, but this was probably the worst arrival of my entire life.
Most of it, was my fault, but some of it was just⦠Egypt. Mohamed told me I could stay the night at his place, but I turned down the offer. I ended up spending the night in a very ghetto hotel, but hey⦠it only cost me 7 dollars. I had a couple hundred dollars with me so this trip would be cheaper than expected. After waking up in a bed that creaked with every slight movement, in a room that had to be 90 degrees and that did nothing to insulate the sound of traffic in the city, I left to explore the biggest city in Africa, Cairo.
They were nearly always covered in so much clothing that the body underneath was a complete mystery. As I walked through the streets of Egypt, the women I saw were a disappointment. A high percentage of Egyptian women were overweight. As I walked through downtown Cairo, I felt a surge of culture shock even stronger than what I felt in Istanbul. Now⦠I was really in Muslim country. The streets were dusty and the buildings mostly looked rundown. The room had 4 beds, but they had no problems renting me the entire room.
