 First day exploring Cairo. I am out here outside of the Egyptian Museum. Very excited to start exploring for the day. I have to tell you it's a little bit hectic. The city of Cairo so busy and the traffic is amazing to a point where the driver earlier he had to turn off the car in the middle of the road because it was just not moving for a while. But anyway I'm out here and today I'm traveling with two other ladies that I met at the hostels. Just keeping each other company and giving each other some comfort and not having to explore completely solo. It's a beautiful sunny day and I cannot wait to take you with me inside and see what's interesting inside the Egyptian Museum. The Egyptian Museum is the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East. It houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Over 150,000 items with a good amount of them on display. This is a must visit if you are in Cairo. A fascinating amount of treasures to be honest and there's so much to learn. It's just so overwhelming. But what I found interesting are some of the coffins that they do have in display. They were able to construct them from a tomb and then some of the coffins they even have the mummies inside and they are preserved probably 3000 years old and it's amazing to see the mummy and how the body is preserved. You can see the hair the nails it's amazing. I came across a lot of students just drawing and it's a large group just spread out all around the museum. I found that to be interesting. I asked and it turned out there are a lot of students who come here to the museum from the School of Applied Arts or something like that and then they're just drawing and working on drawing some art related to some of the pieces here in the museum. Just checked one of the galleries with the funerary treasures of this king and it's fascinating. In some of these galleries they don't allow taking videos or photos for that matter but all the jewelry and the pieces that were used to decorate the mummy and the treasures that were buried with the king they're just so amazing. A lot of gold, a lot of precious stones for the pieces of jewelry but it's so incredible. The museum was so interesting there are so many things to learn and I feel like if you really want to go in depth and understand what every single piece is and the importance of every single piece you're probably better off to hire a guide. I think it would be very useful but I did this as a self-guided adventure and it was good because they still have a good number of signs all around so if you can read that in Arabic and English so you can read and you can get a decent understanding of what you are looking at which was really good and then I mean everything is really interesting but there are two things that I found very interesting and I was just wow so amazed the mummies and being able to see the mummies inside of the coffins and then also the galleries where they share all the funerary treasures for the kings and all of the gold and jewelry that was buried with them that was mind-blowing for me. Outside when you exit they do actually have a couple of snack bars and they do have some restaurants where you can grab a bite to eat. The prices are a little bit high but just keep that in mind in case you're looking for a bite to eat. We walked from the museum to make our way to the waterfront by the Nile because there is a walking trail right there but it turned out it's still under some construction so it wasn't quite open and it was short walking distance from the museum but the thing is and there is no pedestrian walkway so we were literally crossing the highway and it was so hectic drivers are really aggressive out here in Cairo but I think right now we're just going to try to find the restaurants and go try some authentic Egyptian food maybe some kushary and see how that goes. Super super stressful and a lot of noise and my goal is to just not end up with a heart attack today is all because the crossing the crossing of the road is just crazy and then in places where you can find the pedestrian walkway the lights are not working so you're just crossing and hoping for the best. We're here at Meydan Talat Harb but we just stopped to get some juice. A friend here. I've got the juice and I have to tell you it's crazy crazy crazy. That's the place right there kushary Abu Tariq it's a pretty popular place especially for kushary we're gonna give it a try there's a big traffic jam out here but we will make our way and try some good authentic Egyptian food let's go that's their delivery guy actually okay we will go from here forgets too busy all right that is the place kushary Abu Tariq and we finally made it we got a table and the kushary we're trying kushary and we actually just realized that the only thing they serve here is kushary that's it one dish only one day we're all are hungry and we're excited to begin you're ready to eat first time trying this dish what did you think of kushary I think the dish was a 10 out of 10 it was perfect it was very tasty I loved it it's great and it's just so nice to see how they make kushary yeah and I saw the restaurant is so vibrant like it's so busy and it's just so nice to see you know how you know people working in the restaurant it moves so fast yeah really fast yeah it's crazy by the way has the youtube channel yes my youtube channel is at pretty risky game so check me out I've been traveling since august so it's pretty cool how many countries have you been to since it started so I've been to Indonesia Thailand it's four countries I'm on my fifth country now so yeah and he's traveling Egypt yep solo yeah solo yeah all solo travelers we were trying to find a place for desserts and we met this guy who recommended this pastry place or bakery and they do actually have a good variety of all type of desserts especially kanafa they sell it packaged and they do have some nuts heroku just bought some nuts and ice cream the ice cream was really good I just finished mine no time to film pistachio and she tried the strawberry pistachio how's the strawberry so good the flavors here are just so awesome and they do have donuts they literally have everything this place is really good but I think we will be wrapping up our adventure here we're well fed we saw enough of Cairo for today and I will see you guys in the next one bye