Akhbar El Mango

Maybe there needs to be less wondering about the challenges the future might bring - and more research into what allows the future to work as well as it does now. The future of what life might be in some future, crowded growing City with limited resources is presently alive and well in Cairo, Egypt. 25 million people live peacefully and increasingly productively in the great City called "The Big Mango" . . . a comparative analogy to The Big Apple - New York City. The pictures below are just the smallest slices of the amazing expanse of human development that is Cairo - which greets the visitor arriving by air.

This tiny slice of the North West Cairo shows the Cairo to Alexandria highway leaving town and heading for the Mediterrenean coast . . .



Another highway in the southeast forms part of the ring road now enabling traffic to flow around the great City and access its numerous satellite cities.


Near Mohandiseen the buildings thicken into a concrete jungle - a busy and expensive jungle!






The new ring road is steadily getting smoother and better maintained and it now routinely hosts traffic jams that are a testament to Cairo's history of record-setting congestion!

This long distance picture below shows, in the center, the new Cairo-Egypt Museum of Civilization in Ein El Sira. The thick collection of apartment buildings were built in just the past few years.

In the northeast, as the smog thickens - one can see the pyramid shape of the monument to Anwar Sadat - at the site of his assassination by extremists so long ago - an event which galvanized Egypt's leadership towards a modernized future.

Inside this giant expanse of concrete, rebar, copper wire, and plumbing - friends meet in a cafe . .

and a cat sleeps peacefully on the door steps!