Hazia’s Reflections

Upon arrival in Cairo, the first place that I wanted to visit was the Pyramid of Gyza & Sphynx. It didn’t matter that I had just came off an 11-hour flight from midnight onwards, sleep wasn’t important. On the way to the hotel, I asked the guide. He offered to arrange immediately after we have breakfast at the hotel.

Mr pizza hut wanted to go too but it would take him and the other guy quite some time to get to my hotel. He wouldn’t let me go alone though. They had taken a public taxi to their hotel, he said the people were very rough. He asked to dismiss the guide, saying that we can go on our own a bit later.

I did, took my own sweet time and had just came out of the shower with my hair dripping wet when he called and said they were already downstairs at the hotel lobby. How did they do that, when I called 10 minutes earlier, the other guy was still in the shower.I got ready in record time to meet them to find out that they hadn’t even had breakfast. Man!

I followed them food hunting. We found a cosy little outlet down the street. The main attraction was the Shawarma Chef, he reminded me of the five-star Chefs that I’d known. His aura was strong. I wasn’t wrong. He used to work for all the five-star brands all over Europe and Middle East but had retired. Fascinating. His beef and chicken Shawarma with pickles was too sour for me though.

After that, the other guy said he had to settle his ’satay’ for the event and he thought there won’t be enough time to visit the triangular wonder. The ’satay’ supplier even offered to take us there. One more excuse from him finally made me realised that he had no intention of going in the first place. Mr pizza hut missed his ’signals’. It was 3pm then. The hotel receptionist later confirmed that the tour had to start by 11.30am. The pyramid closed at 4pm.

A whole day wasted!!!

p/s: Oh, in case you’re wondering about the blue ribbon below, I had to bring it all the way from KL in a plastic bag on the plane. They said it would be difficult to get ordinary things in foreign land. Well, the locals admired it and said it didn’t come like that in Cairo, hehe…