I have been to many cities around the States and few around the world, but I had to think of something to link two of my favorite destinations to visit. Cairo, Egypt and Vegas have more in common than they think.
Both cities have hot temperature that makes your brain boil. Both cities are dusty due to desert.
Las Vegas is the driest state in the Nation. Both cities are battling water shortage and pollution in Egypt the Nile sources are drying up.
In Cairo, you can get anything for the right price, same goes for Vegas. Food is way cheaper in both cities, and juices, ice cream make a big part of the local culture.
Both Cairo and Las Vegas have a legal drinking age of 21 (http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/facts-about-cairo-1756.html)
Also known as the 'The City of 1000 Minarets', Vegas is also known as the city of the 1000 Casinos.
In Clark County where Las Vegas is and Cairo prostitution is illegal and a crime publishable by law. But everyone knows that this is not the case, prostitution is alive and will in both cities.
Hoover Dam is the largest public works project ever undertaken in the U.S. and so is the High Dam in modern Egypt.
Vegas has hotel than looks like the sphinx, Cairo has the real deal.
Like Egypt many residence of the city make earn their break and butter working for the entertainment business.
Migrant workers come from south of the borders. in Egypt boys of the South who are usually shorter and darker and enjoy less education than their peers to the north. Vegas migrant worker core hails from various cities and towns of Mexico.
People who live in Vegas want nothing to do with the Strip where tourists flock, in the same manners, residence of Cairo despise all that obsession with their city that foreigners bring.
Cairo has more residents during the day (due to central government office), Las Vegas has more residents at night (blame night owls)
Like in Vegas, it is normal in Cairo to run into individuals who want to scam you of your money, but in Vegas they wear suits.
Vegas is not as liberal as you may think, Cairo is not as religious as you might believe.
Residents of Cairo have a high tolerance of tourist sometimes erratic behavior, Vegas residents on the other hand exploit it for profit.
Al-Qahirah, which is Arabic for 'the Conqueror' or 'the Victor'. Both translations are good attributes if you want to do well in Vegas gambling circles.
It's true both places are cheap, and both dirty in their own ways!
1 comments:
OK, we know now about Vegas and Cairo but you did not tell us that most of the people in both cities they sleep during the day and awake at night to do their business, like the hyena's, especially the people who looking for night women for enjoyment. You know what I mean.
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