Egypt & bicycles

I'm slowly going through the, cough, 489 pictures I took in Egypt. I feel like slogging through the post-processing is part of the deal of taking a huge amount of pictures. Otherwise, it'd just be crap to add to the, cough, 25,000+ images, totaling 53.4 GB, that I have (just on the desktop computer.)

People ride bikes all over Egypt, but they are especially prevalent in Cairo, and often used for transportation. Every bike I saw, and the ones J and I rented to ride to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, are singlespeed. Most are in mediocre to horrible repair, but nevertheless get people, and stuff, around.

This guy is carrying a big rack of aish, soft pita-like pillows of Egyptian bread, on his head down a moderately busy sidestreet near the Islamic Museum of Art:


And here he is cutting into a very busy intersection, weaving through traffic, and jockeying for position with cars and hand-drawn carts.

This guy is riding some recycling/re-use across the 26 July Bridge over the Nile in Cairo. It's vaguely reminiscent of my own approach to recycling, though he's carrying a lot more crap. But not in -15 Fahrenheit weather!

Many more wacky bicycle pictures to come, but probably not until I'm back from Arizona.