5:30AM I woke up and headed to Jabel Al Isbii. The path was completely clear, surprisingly. There was a checkpoint, where guards turned me back after finding out I didn't work there. I went further on a highway for a detour. It worked and I took some good shots with the drone. After a couple of pictures, I heard a loud siren buzz. The security discovered my car. They escorted me and passed me from car to car until I got back to the main road.
8AM It took another hour to get back.
9AM We had breakfast and drove to Kingdom Tower.
10AM The observation bridge on the 99th floor opens at 12PM so we had coffee on the 77th floor.
11:40AM We left the building. I dropped Paoula off at Hilton and drove back to the airport. I parked at the wrong airport. I asked them to drive me there. I gave some leftovers from Najd Village to the man who helped drive me.
1PM I checked in. They seemed to have a slight issue with my long transit to Cairo. They gave me my boarding pass eventually. I stopped briefly at the Wellcome Lounge. Their sleeping quarters were closed due to Covid. I really wanted to see it.
2:20PM I boarded late for Cairo.
5PM I arrived. Egyptair would not offer me accommodation even though there are no earlier flights to LHR.
7PM I paid for a 25 USD tourist visa to get out of the airport. I then took a Uber to El Nile Restaurant. The first one was wrong so I had to revise it to go to the one near the museum and Tahir Square. It was the same restaurant from years ago! The food wasn't as good as I remembered it, though.
El Nile Restaurant again since November 2017!
8PM I walked around and gave my leftover from Najd Village to some woman on the street. I checked in at Holy Sheet Hostel. I then realized I left my USB cord in the plastic bag with my leftovers. I found the woman who gave it back to me. I sought a place with coffee, dessert, and wifi. Cilantro was such a place but the wifi was slow and the cheesecake was bad.
Painting at Cairo street shop
10PM I went back to the hostel since the wifi at Cilantro was horrible. The hostel was charging extra for using a credit card. I did a Visa exchange at McDonald's. I bought a coke for 5 EGP and then paid Holy Sheet 100 EGP for the night.
11PM I went to bed.
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