When I stepped off the plane in the scorching Cairo heat, the heavily polluted air wrapped around me tightly.
I had only slept three hours the night before and felt completely unprepared for the sensory overload: the smells, sounds, and visual chaos of this 22-million-strong city. It wasn’t my first time in the Middle East yet Egypt felt different.
We dropped off our bags at a hotel that felt like a modern fortress, with multiple security checkpoints to pass through. From our 11th-floor room, I could see the Nile sparkling below us and the pyramids, in the far distance, peeking through hotel and home towers in the early evening light. What a gorgeous view!
As I put my head down on those soft white pillows to rest for just a few minutes before we headed out to explore, I realised something:
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