Well! Not a smooth ride at all. Flight was 1 1/2 hours delayed at the Dubai airport. Was really annoyed about this but later when the pilot explained the reason things cool down. The reason for the delay was the initially assigned flight had some technical problem and they had to switch the vessel after loading. So considering the time and effort required to unload an reload a vessel ... I think 1 1/2 delay is still pretty ok.

At the airport unlike in Dubai ... surprisingly there were no queues. There was a huge jumble of queues. Everybody was fighting to get through the health check and the immigration. There was a separate immigration counter which I think
is for foreigners and a person to handle Imagine Cup travelers ... Still it too an hour. Strange thing is the counter had a sign board as 'DIPLOMATS'. I have no clue about the processes involved in this. But this is the longest ever immigration I have ever been through. Hell! If a counter with a Diplomats board takes an hour to process ... how fast can the rest of us expect things to be faster . anyways ... finally we are here at the Imagine Cup world finals venue, Intercontinental City Stars.

Oh! I gotta mention about the traffic. It was round 10.00 PM when we arrived at the hotel. almost all the roads we travelled were blocked with heavy jams. Last night I was wondering ... if 10.00 PM @ Night is like that what could be the traffic condition @ day time. Seems like everybody in Cairo works @ night :) ... I just now looked at the roads from the hotel rooms. All roads looks clear ... no traffic jams at all. Another strange things we noticed while coming to the hotel was about 40% of the cars we saw were either scratched, or knocked at least once. Seems like driving here is like .... *(&#(!*@##$*($@% ... Reminds me of the vehicles in Chennai, India.

However thanks to all the delays we couldn’t make it to the opening ceremony :( .... but that’s ok ... according to the information received so far ... the things ahead is going to be bigger better ... especially the final ceremony.