38 Replies to “Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Cairo”

  1. Different prospective for sure…
    Maybe it’s just me but the over-head views of centre-pivot farming have always been fascinating.
    Yeah and especially from the air…Cairo demonmstrates a near total lack of architectural imagination…..a true view of arrested developement…I knew there was a moral/vision in there somewhere….

  5. Great pics but I’m worried that we might not be able to “save” this planet, the Gores and Suaukers tell us we are going to lose all that in these pictures, but I say it is a really really big planet, kind of hard to ruin and lose, which is is mommy? Anyone who has even been on an airplane and bothered to look out the window, and still falls for the SCAM of glow ball warming needs mental therapy or is a certified liberal, yea lets clean up the raw sewage going into the oceans from the cities like Halifax, Victoria etc and your mansions sewage systems on the islands also Mr Suzuki, use some of your extortion money there Suzuki to clean up instead of support your worthless money laundering foundation business scaring little children. This is a huge earth, here are some of the great pictures to bring that into perspective.

  7. “Toronto in 20 years.”
    Really? The prevailing brown colour reminded me of the prairies during the frequent droughts.

  8. And it goes on for miles and miles too. Where do the people get their food from? Google maps view of Egypt shows green just along the Nile.
    Compare that to the Soviet style apartment blocks in Eastern European countries. Similar architectural variety, but much more packed together here.
    Can you guess which way Mecca lays?

  16. Incredible shots Kate !!
    I always try for a window seat, always feel sorry for the ones who ask – ‘Why are you always looking out the window? What is there to see down there?’

  18. Great photos.
    I have probably seen around 75% of those same scenes out the window of an airplane at one time or another, they brought allot of associated memories back.
    Cairo is a mess; the other notable picture was the Mumbai India shanty towns. If you zoom into Mumbai via Google Earth, you will see it’s only one small piece of the chaos.
    This is what globalization and multiculturalism is bringing to our homelands. When you see pictures of the nice facades around the world like Dubai or anywhere, remember that it was the west that built all of it. When you step a few blocks past the Disneyland like playgrounds of the rich, you have ugly disastrous societies.
    What we export, and what we import are two completely different worlds.

  19. My curiousity got the better of me, so I opened google earth, and zoomed in on Cairo. The picture here does no justice to the city. It’s actually a very modern, picturesque city. If it weren’t for all those barbaric Egyptians, I think it would be a nice place to visit.

  20. The most beautiful city that I have seen from the air is Vancouver….easily. New York is also very impressive.

  21. Warren Z
    “Only one image from Canada I note.”
    That’s because it was a cloudy day over the tar sands.
    This particular photo set aside, most Liberal MSM propaganda and the Liberal Progressive agenda of getting your money is achieved through the promotion of the Third World and demonization of our own.

  22. So my 3 year old says to me, while looking at this picture – “That’s Wally’s place” Well after much interpretation I figured out that she meant Wall-E – and that the picture looked like the piles of trash that he “made” in the Movie Wall-E.
    Ahhh – from the mouths of babes…

  24. wyatt ironbridge, re Toronto in 20 years. I was kidding, but now I’ll wade in deeper. Lawns will become history with herbicides, fertilizer and water being outlawed. Trees will be the new green fuel as electricity rates zoom to make the solar industry profitable. Then another garbage strike. Good thing Ford is there to turn things around.
    And yes, the colour might match the drought stricken prairies, but I’m guessing the equivalent of Saskatchewan’s entire population lives in the confines of this one photo.

  26. Just imagine, all those millions of people in that phot need water, sanitation and food. I believe the “Arab Spring” started over the increase in the price of food.
    Any government that comes along and subsidises foo prices will be immensely popular. Watch th policies the Muslim Brotherhood implement/

  27. Robert of Ottawa >
    “Just imagine, all those millions of people in that phot need water, sanitation and food”
    Yup, and allot more of it than the fertile Nile Delta can produce. This is the product of decades of western “humanitarian” intervention through aid and subsidies that has compounded the global Third World lack of self sufficient sustainability.

  28. My first impression of Cairo was “wow, I didn’t know there were 40 shades of brown”.
    Yet, as Coach states, there is much more colour and vibrancy to the city than that particular view allows.

  29. # 34 is a cartoon, after which I stopped watching.
    Life can be pretty, but for most, only after the ugliness has been removed. Ask anybody.

  30. The Midwest USA aerial view appeals to me most; it’s a crazy quilt. Some of the photos look like acrylic abstracts.

  34. “Yeah and especially from the air…Cairo demonmstrates a near total lack of architectural imagination…..a true view of arrested developement…I knew there was a moral/vision in there somewhere….
    Posted by: sasquatch at December 4, 2011 9:02 AM”
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    Yeah because Saskatoon and/or Calgary are so awe inspiring.

  36. James >
    Glad you mentioned Calgary. Love flying into Calgary (outside of allot of turbulence).
    Beautiful city, awesome culture.
    Too bad it’s slowly disappearing into another liberalized multicultural ghetto. Before long it’ll be another Toronto/Denver hybrid. Neither face very appealing to be sure.

  37. Knight 99, I have no issue with Calgary, in fact I like certain parts of it, but as a spectacle from the sky, I’d submit that the endless barrage of cookie cutter suburbia is nothing to make one go any more shutter crazy than flying over Cairo …though I would personally find the latter more interesting, predominantly because I’ve never seen it before with my naked eye.

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