Travel
All images by Rathina Sankari
Most mornings in Cairo started with a cup of tea and the quotidian sunrise muezzin call; it had become my daily ritual to sit in the hotel balcony and watch the scene unfold below. The city wore different looks throughout the day, and at dawn, the sun cast a glow on the calm roads. The empty 15th May Bridge that went over the meandering Nile River and the skyscrapers lining the banks of the wealthy Zamalek neighbourhood were shrouded in silence that was broken only by the azan.
It has been a year since I visited the buzzing capital of Egypt with my family of two moody children and a nonchalant husband. Those were the pre-pandemic days, when life had a different rhythm. The kids’ winter break had turned out to be the perfect time of year to soak up the pleasant December weather of the country that is part of the fertile crescent region…