Not surprising, Cairo is a giant dump with sewage and plastic bags everywhere from the Nile to the Pyramids.
Upon arrival, when the plane door opens, the stink of garbage fills the cabin.
All houses have rebar sticking out of every rooftop because they don't pay property tax while it's 'under construction' and they occasionally add floors because of their litters of offspring, the city doubles in population every year and will get worse as the oasis towns have been pumping fossil aquafers and only have a couple years of water left.
Egyptians never use headlights when they drive at night because they're still traumatized by the Six Day War and fear that Israeli planes will attack.
Toilet paper is a novel concept and juvenile diseased street arabs with no future swarm tourists on every occasion (Morocco is even worse).
The only decent place to go there is way off in the isolation of the desert, as snakes and scorpions are less of a nuisance.