Journey of Realisation Part: 1

Approximately one month ago, my batch mates and I were on a trip to the most popular country, Egypt. We spent almost two weeks mainly at Cairo city. After being in UK for quite some time, staying in Egypt was something different for me. Thus, in this piece of writing I would like to share my traveling experience to Egypt.

Way of living in Egypt – Poor are getting poorer and Rich are getting Richer

If I were asked, how was my trip to Egypt? I rather say it is meaningful instead of saying enjoying. I was touched by seeing the way people live there. According to a source, almost 15 million Egyptians are living under poverty line. Adding to this, when the world food price rose recently , the suffering of the people increased more.This is something sad to hear about. Kids sitting in the streets bagging for money. According to a middle class Egyptian family, after the food price have risen , there need to cut off vegetables, meat in their daily food. Their are only afford for lentils and rice for their meal. As mentioned by the World Food Program, most of the Egyptian people are lacking in nutrients as they have cut down the healthy foods. Hence, this will cause a lot of health problems eventually. Maybe as I am in UK, I have not realized the impact of the rising food price , but in Egypt, the citizens are suffering. Besides that, one of the typical foods in Egypt is a bread called “Irish” (not very sure about the spelling.). I tried eating it, but did not enjoy it. No matter which part of Egypt you travel, you can get this bread easily. However, for the Egyptians, this bread is a basic food. To reduce the burden of the citizens, there are certain bakery shops, where this bread has been subsidised by the government. For instance, in normal Bakery shops, one loaf of bread cost 10sen, while in subsidised bakery shops, one loaf cost 1sen. So, there will be a huge crowd in front of the subsized bakery shop. Normally, people started queuing from 6am and might get the bread after 3 to 4 hours. Recently, there were 16 people died when queuing in the line. I was really hurt when I heard about this. Just to get a basic food, there are struggling !!!!.

Me and with Bedouin brother. I was totally
shocked seeing him with barefoot and sitting
alone beside the road in such a hot weather.

This is how people there sales
bread " Irish". It's common

Subsidized Bakery shop.People are queuing to get cheapest bread.

Architecture

Apart from observing the living atmosphere there, another aspect that I observed was the architecture. I realized most of the building there have some similarities with the western type of buildings. The pictures below will show you.

Above pictures :

1st: Egypt and 2nd: Paris. As you can see, the window patterns are almost the same.

Above pictures :

Even here, it is pretty obvious that the building patterns are the same. The first picture is taken in Egypt and second picture in Belgium.

Aggressive men

Imagine, in two weeks, I have seen roughly 4 fighting scenes. These Egyptian guys are a bit aggressive and easily get to their nerves. Hahaha. Well, just look at the picture below.

TO BE CONTINUED