1 January 2012
As it turns out, the casino was not the place to be for NYE…they had a number of the machines shutdown in preparation of an upgrade to come later. It seems odd they would start this on New Years Eve, so from that I gathered the tiny casino was not the place to be, and I decided to hang out around the hotel.Tahrir Square was, of course, where most people were to be found, but I was not about to try to push my luck with that. When midnight did finally come about, there were barely any fireworks at all, and the sound was more of a dull roar than the sharp, noisy cacophony of sounds you normally associate with an NYE gala. The dull roar continued for about three hours, fading away shortly after 3:00 AM. So, as for great cities in which to welcome in the new year, Cairo is not one of them!
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