some weird knockoff mcdonald's restaurant. they've got the branding and everything, it's amazing.
so to cross the street in egypt.... i wonder if this thing is sturdy. i feel like i'm in dubai!
four hundred dollars. okay guys, so we're at this place called bounce.
are you ready bro? sorry for what i'm gonna do!
hello guys, it is doug. i hope you're all having a wonderful day. i am here in cairo, but i'm actually
in a new part of cairo, conveniently called new cairo. so this is actually way further away from
downtown than i was expecting. i was must have been on the motorbike for like 45 minutes or so, on
highways and stuff, and it felt like i was leaving cairo and going to a totally new city. but i was
recommended to visit this place, check it out, and explore. it has a totally different vibe from the
rest of cairo, especially the downtown old historic area. so i'm here now, i just got dropped off in the
most random spot, and i'm gonna take a walk and try to find some things to show you guys. and
i think it'll really feel like a new place that you haven't seen before in any of my videos. i can
already see just from getting dropped off here all of these different houses like the ones behind me.
i don't know if they're new or old. they're styled kind of like they're old, but they look new. but
they're really cool, definitely for wealthier folks. i was driving past a ton of these on the way out
here. i have no idea where i am. i literally just got an uber scooter and had it drop me off
somewhere in the middle of the fifth settlement, which is a part of new cairo. so right now i'm
walking to a mall. i'm gonna look around there, grab a coffee, and try to plan my day. by the way, i just
have to say, driving out here, and with how long it took, and how many different areas of cairo we
passed, especially on those big overpass highways, it really made me realize how little of cairo i've
seen, even though i've spent like, i don't know, two or three weeks here now in total. it just made me
realize i have so much more to see. there's so many amazing places here. and i've really, really
come to love cairo, like a lot. it's kind of funny because it started off with kind of
a bad experience. i guess i didn't tell you guys in the video, but i got scammed pretty bad at the
pyramids by the guy that organized the camels for me. so that was like my first day in cairo and it
was totally a bad experience, but since then i've obviously met incredible people, had a great time,
and i've really really grown to love cairo. even if the police officers still don't love me. but that's
okay, we'll work on them. okay, so i was just gonna stop in at mcdonald's because i haven't eaten all
day, and sometimes you just need a taste of home. and i like to try mcdonald's in every different
country i go to because there's always different items and it's just kind of fun. but i got in there,
i started ordering, and they told me their systems are down. so no joke, i step out and i look across
the street, and this is what i see. some weird, knock-off mcdonald's restaurant. so you know what?
mcdonald's, you've failed me. i'm going to your weird, knock-off competitor. let's go try it out.
it's called restaurant el wady, but the w is an upside down double arches mcdonald's logo. this
is gonna be interesting. here we go. it's literally right across the street from the real mcdonald's.
i think it's serving egyptian food. it's not even like, mcdonald's american food. but let's go
see. let's try it out. all right, i got my food. i got ful, a falafel sandwich, a french fry
wrap with ketchup and mayonnaise. they've got the branding and everything, it's amazing.
right across the street. what a slap in the face to mcdonald's. all right, that was pretty tasty.
not nearly as good as mr. magdy's cart in downtown cairo, though. that's the best. ever.
so like i said, i have no idea where i am, but someone just sent me on instagram that i
should go to a place called first waterway, and there's some nice modern malls there and
cool things to check out. so i'm gonna go there now, and i'll catch up with you when i get there.
okay guys, i think i got dropped off somewhere near waterway.
now i just need to cross the street. busy street here. so to cross the street in egypt, i'm
learning, you got to kind of just wait for a little gap, and then kind of make eye contact with the
people as you go across. and you don't have to go all at once, so you can go lane by lane and
just step in, wait, let a few cars pass, then go a little bit more, a little bit more.... that's the way,
that's the strategy for crossing the street here in egypt. the waterway. okay. so it seems to me like
it's kind of like a fancy, semi-outdoor mall with lots of restaurants, cafes,
brands and stuff along the way, it actually reminds me a lot of a place i went to in riyadh, saudi
arabia. like that new development kind of vibe. let's just walk in here, see if we can go in here.
yeah. no? oh, okay, sorry. i guess not. well, not allowed to go in there. i think that's residential in there.
we'll keep walking along by the cafes and stuff. they've got a starbucks here. you know when you see
a starbucks in egypt you're in kind of a bougie area, because they're not really all over the
place. they're only in like zamalek, heliopolis, maadi.... fancier neighborhoods. i'm gonna grab a coffee.
guys i'm looking all over, but i can't find any water at this waterway. so we're
going to keep looking, but i want to find the water. and i don't know if it exists.
you know you're in a trendy area when the menu is in english and they're serving poke bowls and
tacos and things like that. so i'm gonna keep walking now. i think there's a mall up here.
let's explore that. from what i've heard, it's basically what people do here. hang out at malls
and these kind of outdoor shopping centers and things like that. so i know i already said this,
but this place really reminds me of saudi, in that it's got a bunch of new developments, everything is
really spread out. so i'm walking right now from waterway one to waterway two. there was no water
at waterway one, so i'm gonna see if there's water at the second waterway. i don't know. i'm kind of
walking and i'm just like, alone on this street. there's no real pedestrians here. and yeah, like
a lot of developments that are kind of finished. seems like it's a very developing area. but even
when i was driving out here, i was seeing so many advertisements for new luxury condo developments,
apartment buildings, and also in the new capital. so if any of you guys watching don't
know, cairo is of course the capital of egypt, but the government is working right now on creating
a new capital that's going to be very dubai-esque. very modern, very, you know, shiny and new, and
all that kind of stuff. so they're building that. it's even further outside of real cairo, you know,
downtown cairo, and i'm going to try to go there either today or tomorrow and see what's up. it's
still very much under development, so i don't think there's a ton built there yet, but eventually the
whole government is going to shift over there, and the goal is to kind of distribute the population
of cairo, because it's a very overpopulated city at the moment, a lot of congestion and
whatnot. so i've heard there might be a ton of military there and i might have trouble filming,
but i'm gonna go. i'm gonna give it a try. so stay tuned for that. look at this big thing.
i'm gonna go walk inside and try to climb up to the top and get a view.
i don't see too many people around. let's see if i can do it.
i wonder if this thing is sturdy. i think so.
scary. oh my gosh. okay, no guard rails. up to the top, here we go. well, i made it.
so funny you can just walk onto something like this. pretty cool spot to hang out, though.
so you can see a bit of the surrounding area. it's kind of sparse. like, there's
little mall complexes like where i was before here and there, but then there's,
you know, mainly residential stuff, and it's kind of hard to tell like, if it's finished or not. hey!
i think i found the water! wow. you just had to come all the way up here to find it. this
is the waterway water. look at it, it's beautiful. amazing. what do you know, guys, we found the water
of waterway after all. oh, this looks kind of nice over here. look at that little oasis. time to head
down and continue on my way to waterway number two, where there may or may not be water, and there may
or may not be a mall. but we're gonna keep going, keep exploring, you know? everyone told me to come
to new cairo, so gotta do it. yalla. so here's uh, waterway 2 again. coffee shops, restaurants....
(it was basically the same as the first one)
all right guys, i'm here with my friend conan. he lives here in new cairo. and we came to a way more
exciting place than where i was walking before. he came in a taxi and rescued me from there, because
that was kind of boring. i mean, waterway, i could see it would be a great place to go for coffee
or food, but there's nothing to see there. so we came to a fancy mall. this is probably like the
bougiest place i've been in egypt so far. yeah, cairo festival. it's really a nice place, you know? cairo festival. and they've
got real brands, you can see like, a bose store across the way, we've got adidas here, and yeah,
check it out. lead the way man. i'm following you. armani.... they've got all the brands.
i feel like i'm in dubai. yeah! so guys, here in the mall, these brands are real. whereas if you
see adidas stuff on the street, especially in like downtown cairo, places like that,
it's gonna be copies that you can get for like 300 pounds or something. you know, like 20 bucks. here,
this is all real stuff, so if you want real clothes, shoes, things like that, it's a good place to come.
so walking in here, you have to put your mask on, and you like, pop your hand on some temperature
thermometer thing, and you walk straight through a metal detector, it beeps, then some guy takes
the wand and goes around like, your pockets, it beeps again, and then you just walk through.
so that's that's how precautions work in egypt. okay, so we're in guess. let's guess how much the
price is. haha. 950. 950, so that's like 60 us dollars for a t-shirt. $100 for this shirt. 1,450 pounds. oh, bro....
Mall cop coming to interrogate me
okay, so that random little shot that i took of like, the big opening, the shot right before this,
for some reason triggered the mall security. and they came up and told me to delete it, and
they were talking to conan for like three minutes back and forth, i don't know about what.
basically cameras aren't allowed or something, so i'm gonna be discreet now. and while he was
talking to conan i did another fake clip like i did in downtown, when i filmed the church back in
november, and i deleted that one in front of him. so i still have it! so i have to be discreet now,
so i don't get in trouble. always dodging the police, the security, the army here, man.
and just hold it like this, so no one can see that part of it. no one can understand it, you know? all right.
2,450. oh my gosh. 2,450. so this t-shirt is $150. how much? 6,300. like, it's kind of like $400.
wow. you should get it. yeah, for sure. get it for my
girlfriend when she comes. so a lot of stuff is more expensive in egypt, and in a lot of countries,
than it would be in the us, for example, because of the import fees and stuff. so that's why you
see a lot of people here trying to get people to bring them electronics from abroad, like cell
phones, or laptops, things like that, from saudi arabia, some place without sales tax and import
taxes and stuff like that. all right, we made it out of the mall without getting arrested.
Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Thanks, God.
we're at the outside part now. it's really nice.
this is really good, you know? yeah. it's like a, kind of a continuation of the mall, but outdoor,
and the weather is beautiful right now. great place to be. guys, we found the water. it's here,
it's at the outdoor mall. so they've got like, a dancing fountain kind of thing here, check
out the view. it's actually a really, really cool spot. and there's a ton of people hanging out here.
whoa. magic. look at that one. yeah. it's a flower! nice. okay guys, so we're at this place
called bounce. it's in cairo festival. it's like one of those trampoline places, and they're very
kind to let us come in and check it out. we got some cool socks that we have to wear to go on
the trampolines. i've never done one of these before. all right, let's do it. hi, how's it going?
are you ready for this adventure? yes. they're very stylish, i like them a lot.
the socks? yeah! i like them too.
hello! hey, how are you? i'm good, how are you? great! is it your first time here? yeah.
what's your name? doug. what? doug. douglas. i'm kind of scared.
okay, that looks easy enough.
i did it! yay! all right, your turn. let's see you do it. yeah, it's really bouncy.
beautiful.
nice. ouch.
kobe! oh! oh, it's like an inflatable? what? it's like a big blow-up? yes. an airbag. i see, okay, okay.
i don't think i should be this tired.
can you do it?
yeah like this. your hand here. i don't know how, just show me! with your leg and your hand.
come on! it's too slippery. no, come on bro! it's literally so slippery.
i can't. you try. it's so slippery! how do you do it?
i don't know. okay, i'm gonna run through this part. this is not so bad, okay. okay, just wait a second.
okay be careful i said! ow! i don't know it was like....
nice. great job. one, two, three.... oh, bro! i'm okay!
oh.... damn! how are you feeling now, bro? i feel so tired. really? yeah. i feel like i just hiked mount
sinai again. and then anything else? uh, that's it. boom. i want to be in it. yeah, give a shout-out!
there we go. all right, fatima here is having me jump off a cliff. yes sir! are you going to jump?
do you want me to jump?
yeah, please! uh, backwards is kind of scary, man. really? okay, do it!
cheer, please! thank you!
are you ready bro? i don't like this anymore. sorry for what i'm gonna do! can you do a cool trick? he can do cool tricks. oh there we go.
what! actually i can do that too, but i just didn't want to show off, so.... thank you guys!
appreciate it. that was a lot of fun. i'm so tired now. yalla bounce!
all right guys. well, that was it for part one of modern cairo, exploring new cairo. thanks
a lot conan for coming. you are welcome doug, any time. i appreciate it. that was a lot of fun. super random. check it
out if you guys are in the area. and i'll be back tomorrow to try to infiltrate egypt's new capital,
the new administrative capital. we're gonna do our best to go there, probably gonna get in trouble for
filming, but that's just all a day in the life. so i'll see you tomorrow morning. gosh, i'm red. bye-bye.