Cairo Cemetery

Cairo Cemetary
Originally uploaded by kden604.

Yesterday another Canadian arrived at the hostel named Ralph. He is from The Pas in Northern Manitoba and is really cool shit. He's quite the traveller and has been to so many of the places I'll be headed in the future. We get on pretty well because he used to work in the IT Industry also so we are big geeks, add beer and shwarma and it makes for some good times.

Ralph is part of a project which photographs war head stones at commonwealth cemeteries which at first seemed a bit odd, but sounds quite interesting when you start to look at the different websites:

www.cwgc.org
www.southafricanwargraves.org

Last night he and I pissed it up at the hostel and drank way too much beer... I have to say that I have felt better in the morning, but not nearly as bad as this young american fellow who wanted to keep up with a couple of canadians - tee-hee.

Today he was out to photograph the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery in the Coptic area of Cairo so I decided to tag along. It's really quite a sight to see, the cemetery is in a not-so-nice street but soon as you walk in the gates its manicured and in just beautiful shape. The gardeners were amazingly friendly and it was just really nice to see.

The highlight of the day wasn't just seeing the war graves though, as I was waiting for Ralph I saw some really interesting headstones with statues and various other decorations.... I started to look at some of them when out of the blue I stumbled on a Masonic headstone... I was pretty excited because Egypt is pretty much a modern day freemason dead-zone since the Suez crisis in 1957ish.

I won't speak too deeply on the subject on this blog, but on my masonic blog I'll be putting the pictures of the headstones up. Tonight I'm heading down to Islamic Cairo (old area) and will have some fun bargining for stuff for no reason!