Five First Impressions of Cairo

1) Dry, Hot Sand Settled in Camel-Colored Heaps Broken By Housing Areas and the Highway

2) Swerving, Cacophonous, Seemingly Chaotic Drivers

3) Cookie-cutter Apartment Buildings

4) Romanticized City Sounds: The Rhythm of Arabic Spoken Quietly, The Breathy Sound of Cars Going By, Hammering, Unintelligible Shouting, The Movement of Life.

5) The Exotic, Indescribable Smell Emitted by the Sheesha