This is not just the name of a cemetery. They really live here, among the crypts - 
It happened this way, probably not because of a good life
The cemetery is capital, extensive, really the whole city.
When going to the Scavengers, you cannot avoid the City of the Dead.
We were not allowed into the territory; the escort only allowed us to slow down and look through the fence at the cemetery architecture.
They explained - so as not to disturb the peace of the inhabitants.
I wasn’t particularly eager, but my traveling friends tried to get through, but it didn’t work out.
Note about maintenance -
All tourists are required to take an accompanying person “on board”. In addition to the fact that there was also a police car following relentlessly.
We called the “tour guides” in civilian clothes (with a short-barreled machine gun under the hood) “jackets” - the poor fellows steamed day after day in a thick suit, trailing behind us through the pyramids, slums, sands and deserts, despite the fact that the Egyptian sun even in September still roasting all the way.
As for me, it’s safer with an escort, although - don’t go there, you can’t go here, coordinate every step with the authorities - that was also the case. Which was quite depressing for our warm company; I am eager for exploits)
The guide - a local, a Cairo man - for some reason began to assure us that the security forces were not there to protect us, but to keep an eye on us so that they wouldn’t go where they shouldn’t. What is so forbidden there you can spy among the devastation, God knows. But one way or another, local beggars and other scoundrels stayed away, and the police were respected. In one of the hotels they decided to cheat us - the jacket was ruined, it was also more interesting for him to sleep in the room, and not to shepherd a restless group. They treated us normally, on occasion they suggested something through the guide, they themselves did not enter into conversations, they did not command the “formation” =) By the way, unlike the people on the streets (also calmly and friendly in general), the “jackets” knew that we are Israelis.
A unique place to live, of course.
Related pictures.
On the topic of the horrors of the waste recyclers' quarter - this is already far beyond its borders,
consider the city center as a bridge over the Nile
Under the bridge there is a bus station with a street market -
Buses are crowded, minibuses are the capital, after all
The wind constantly blows dust from the desert, which is why everything is withered. And the pieces of paper under one’s feet apparently don’t float.
The buildings all around are not too different from the dwellings of the Zabbaleen -
Somewhere it’s more neat, somewhere it’s completely fear-and-horror -
This, of course, can be found anywhere if you set your mind to it, even in Tel Aviv, even in Rostov, even Europe is not all brand new,
but I didn’t rummage through garbage dumps, I took pictures of everything along the route
The authorities are doing what they can, at least with the roads
The streets are not bad, the highways are more or less. The broken-down road was found only in the completely deserted wilds, in distant Sivy
Scooter-based tuk-tuks are a very common form of transport.
An advertisement has turned up - oil products from Libya are being advertised. Egypt doesn't have its own. And there is nothing special to trade. Hence the gaps in the economy.
The picture is the same in Jordan. Tourism is perhaps the only export item.
When provocative publishers compare - “here’s how the Arabs live in the territories! But how do the Israelis live!” - they forget to compare with the rest of the Middle East,
Who’s stopping them from cleaning up the streets? If he doesn’t bother anyone there, except the passing European public.
Beauty center, not halam-balam
The house is not yet fully occupied and is beginning to deteriorate. The winds are certainly strong...
What I liked were the niches for the condos so that the façade would not be spoiled.
Skinny sheep or dogs? you can't tell right off the bat
They can whenever they want
One day, when I was relaxingly studying Google.Earth, lazily moving the mouse from Angola to the Cook Islands, and from Nakhodka to Madeira, I noticed something that I thought about for at least six months. In Cairo, where I had been several times and thought that I had visited everything possible, I now discovered a completely new object called Jaheen Alkhalawatee. And I got excited about the idea of going there. The matter was aggravated by the fact that I could absolutely not find anything on the Internet about this place, which resembled a hybrid of a palace and a mosque, and was located on the slopes of Mount Muqattam, in the eastern part of Cairo. Finding myself in this city on December 17, 2009, I set out to find this temple of dreams -
And the task was not easy. Not a single living soul, from taxi drivers to imams of a number of mosques, knew anything about the existence of such a place. We spent half a day driving around Cairo in a taxi, but found nothing. We climbed Mukattam and searched there, and were driven out by the soldiers guarding the air defense base on the top of the mountain. We infiltrated the city of the dead, but failure awaited us there too. It's time to despair, but this is not in my rules. The picture I saw on the Internet did not let me sleep peacefully, and on the last day of the trip, after seeing my companion at the airport (the girl had left for Moscow), I set off with triple persistence to look for this very place. And now I decided to do it on foot, so as not to accidentally pass it while driving a car. A 20(!) kilometer journey across all of Cairo awaited me, but I was mentally prepared for it.
Experts will ask - why bother looking for this structure, if on the map it is clearly indicated in the city of the dead in the south-eastern part of Cairo? The answer is simple - the person who posted this photo put it in the wrong place. And when we got there for the first time by taxi, we were sadly convinced of this. The task was to walk long kilometers, winding through the southern and northern city of the dead, in order to visually recognize what was captured in the photo.
After escorting my companion to the airport bus 356, which departs from a small stop behind the Cairo Museum for only 1 (one!) pound, I went to the Maspero boat dock, opposite the Nile Hilton hotel. From there, water buses depart every hour, traveling both up and down the Nile. Read more about Cairo's water buses on the TourEgypt website (eng). This is a wonderful walk if you have a couple of hours to spare. The walk costs only 2 pounds, and you ride along the river for about an hour, sailing under all the bridges, making a circle past the island of Jazeera, where the tower of the Sofitel hotel is. Surprisingly, I didn’t meet a single tourist, but only Egyptian families relaxing on their day off. Unfortunately, tourists simply do not get to these cheap municipal water buses - they are simply torn apart by street hustlers (marshals), pulling them into a felucca with a cruise along the Nile along the exact same route as River tram, but at a price 30-50 times more expensive, that is, 50-100 pounds per person.
So, after riding along the Nile, I landed on the west bank of the river, in Giza, opposite the zoo and Cairo University. Love this area, located away from the crowds of central Cairo. The audience is completely different, no street pests, cleaner and more pleasant. I walked around the university campus. Very, very interesting. Both the buildings themselves and the students leading normal student life. I had a snack in one of the local canteens for students, which is called remembering myself in their years. Funny!
After breakfast at the university, I went to the nearby zoo, but, being an animal lover, I could not stay there for long - the conditions for keeping the unfortunate pets were too spartan. In addition, the zoo has been turned into a kind of amusement park and fast food. It feels like it’s not a zoo at all, but a kind of recreation park for working people of the lower classes, based on the amount of garbage lying everywhere. Therefore, having crossed the Nile towards the island of Roda, I went deep into the city -
Cairo - a city of contrasts
Still, sometimes you are amazed at how close wealth and luxury are to poverty and despair in the countries of Africa and the Middle East. It seems like you just crossed the bridge over the Nile, it’s a 5-minute walk. But from decent Giza with its university town, parks and civilized high-rises, you find yourself in an absolutely poor part of the city. The slums are so depressing that I didn’t take pictures of them, just as I didn’t find any color in homeless people peeing on an ancient aqueduct, or sheep skins dumped in the middle of the street, rotting in the hot sun. Do you know, there are such connoisseurs of naturalism who professionally photograph sketches from the life of an ordinary Cairo citizen with a million photo effects? Perhaps I’m a prude, and I don’t see the charm in workers who pee en masse on ancient graves and monuments. As well as a completely naked legless beggar tearing apart abandoned skins with oozing blood is also not positive, although the poor fellow is simply cold at night. Meanwhile, you will see such pictures when heading east along the ancient An-Nasr aqueduct, which stretches several kilometers from Roda Island almost to the Citadel.
Not without relief, I got to the Cairo ring highway with 4 lanes in each direction and tried to cross it - unsuccessfully. The traffic is so dense that crossing to the opposite side seems suicidal. None pedestrian bridges There were no traffic lights either. Without exaggeration, it took about 30 minutes before I managed to run across the highway, and only because there was an accident and all the traffic got stuck in a dense traffic jam.
And here I am in the southern part of the city of the dead. A gloomy place, I must say, especially if you are alone and it starts to get dark. It feels like you're in the computer game Doom. Remember this one? When you rush through tunnels and different monsters jump out at you? I experienced approximately the same thing in this giant cemetery. Not only do you not know where to go - there are monotonous crypts around you and you can’t see how and where to go next, but also there are a lot of stray dogs and beggars reaching out to you from the next crypt. I understand that there is no mysticism in this, and we are talking about poor people, but still, when you are tense and definitely lost, everything is seen in a darker light.
For almost two hours I climbed among the graves and family crypts, and eventually I was tired to such an extent that I stopped being afraid of anything. And a bunch of local goofball kids who decided to play rock throwing with a tourist and hit me in the leg got their due in full. I not only turned out to be more accurate than them, but also went on the offensive, caught one of the fleeing people and gave him a powerful kick under the butt, which caused him to fly forward with acceleration, as if he had a turbine implanted in him. The children ran away screaming and didn’t bother me anymore. In general, Egypt became the third country where I had to fight with local youth with stones. The first episode was in Israel, in East Jerusalem. Then - in Morocco, in Ouarzazate, and now here, in Cairo.
And lo and behold, I saw what I had been looking for all day!
Then he walked closer, hoping to get there in order to photograph the city of the dead from there -
Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to go upstairs. It was getting dark, there was no time, and walking through the slums in the dark did not seem safe.
A little something nice at last
In order to expel the darkness and dust of ancient crypts from my soul, I went to the elegant Cairo district of Roxy, which is not far from international airport. This is the richest of Cairo's quarters, with a lot of beautiful villas, beautiful colonial architecture, and a very nice, unobtrusive aura, which is sorely lacking in the city center. Meanwhile, it was getting very dark, and the camera was starting to run out of light, for which I apologize -
The secret is revealed!
The secret of this mysterious mosque has been revealed, for which thanks to Misha (aka
In Egypt, under Mount Muqattam, north of the Citadel, the Cairo Necropolis is located - City of dead. Cairo is the capital of the state, consisting of many districts, one of which is this extensive cemetery. The age of the burial ground exceeds two thousand years, and the territory is constantly expanding. Now its length is more than 6 kilometers.
City of the Dead (Cairo)
Egypt is considered a Muslim country, only 15% of the inhabitants profess Christianity, so the City of the Dead is an Islamic necropolis. Hearing this name, many people think that we are talking about the Great Pyramids located in Giza, near Cairo. But in fact, this is the name of the largest cemetery located in the capital of Egypt. By the way, it is an object world heritage UNESCO. But, despite this status, the necropolis is not popular among tourists and local residents.
City of the Dead (Cairo), whose name al Qarafa, translated from Arabic means “cemetery”. It consists of five main cemeteries - North, South, Bab el-Nasr, Bab el-Wazir and Great.
In memory of the departed
In the northern part of al-Karafa, there are mausoleums and mosques of the sultans of Inal and Qaitbey, Faraj Barkuk, and the Barsbey complex. In the southern part, Mameluke mazars and ancient buildings from the Fatimid times were built.
Some tombs are already crumbling, while others remain intact, as they are built of marble. As in life, they are buried in large tombs, and mere mortals have modest tombstones.
The City of the Dead (Cairo) is one of the oldest mass burial sites due to its age. On its territory people from different walks of life found peace - both ordinary citizens and representatives of blue blood. Many tourists are impressed by the majestic tombs of the rulers of the world who lived several centuries ago, as well as the way their relatives honored the memory of their departed family members.
Initially, this cemetery was erected as a burial place for the Arab conquerors of Egypt, the Abbasids, the Fatimids, the Mamelukes, and the Ottomans, and now it has turned into one of the slums of Cairo, where the living and the dead coexist side by side.
Living and dead
Today, this unusual metropolitan area is not only the final refuge for those who have passed on to another world, but also home to tens of thousands of the poorest Cairo residents who have no other roof over their heads. The reason for this was the Egyptian crisis, the lack of affordable housing for the rapidly growing population. Therefore, many poor Egyptians chose the city of the dead as their home.
Some of them, in agreement with the relatives of the deceased, live directly in the crypts. As a rule, in return they undertake to look after the graves and restore order in the surrounding area. Thanks to this arrangement, the City of the Dead (Cairo) is much cleaner than some of the main streets of the capital.
Here you can often find boys playing football and women hanging laundry between the tombstones. For many of them, the City of the Dead became a real home for a long time. Life here is different from that in other areas of Cairo. The streets here are quiet, narrow, not paved. It seems that behind the high walls with decorative gates there is a completely different world: all around are domes, minarets and no politics.
al Qarafa: kings and poor
“I’ve lived here for 80 years, and my family has lived on this site for 350 years. King Farouk is buried next to my house,” said a local resident of the City of the Dead in 2011. Despite this strange proximity, he believed that “life with the dead is a good thing for an old man." Indeed, it is much more frightening to be around the living, from whom you do not know what to expect.
Nevertheless, starting from the 60s of the last century, a certain semblance of infrastructure appeared here: shops were opened where you can buy food, clothing and souvenirs, and even houses were built. Transport goes here, people work here.
No one can accurately answer the question of how many people live in this gloomy quarter among millions of graves. Today, the population of the City of the Dead (Cairo) continues to grow due to rural migration, natural disasters and the housing crisis. Presumably, we are talking about a settlement of half a million.
City of the Dead (Cairo): reviews from tourists
Tourists who visit the City of the Dead tend to be discouraged. For many of them, it is strange to see a city with houses where the mummified bodies of relatives of the homeowners are kept. According to them, this spectacle is not for the faint of heart. Although the area is home to low-income people, most tourists find it difficult to understand how they can stay in a house with a tomb in another room to save on costs.
Others, on the contrary, find a walk through the City of the Dead very exciting. It is unusual for them that living people are constantly among the tombs, and they gladly respond to the offer of local residents to enter their homes.
And yet he is beautiful
But not all guests of the capital pay attention to such moments. Many of them visit the City of the Dead (Cairo) to admire the beautiful tombs of Arab rulers, for example, the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali. The wonderful creations of the masters of the past, who created majestic structures by hand, do not leave true connoisseurs of architecture indifferent.
For some it is unusual place It remains in memory as a cemetery stretching over 4 miles, on the territory of which the poorest residents of Cairo live. They do not advise visiting the labyrinth of tombs, houses and the famous necropolis, as it is easy to get lost there without a guide and you can become a victim of robbers and other criminals.
However, when you come to Egypt on vacation, visit the City of the Dead (Cairo), the photo of which does not give a full idea of the true beauty of this area. Once you find yourself on its streets, you will feel like a character from One Thousand and One Nights.
Cemeteries of Cairo or "city of the dead" most interesting place old town. A huge number of monuments from the Mamluk period of Egyptian history have been preserved there. And despite this, the city of the dead is rarely visited by tourists. There are many fears and phobias associated with this place, including the ubiquitous beggars, homeless people living in graves, and in general the fear of any necropolis. The cemeteries of Cairo are really inhabited by people, and this does not fit well in the mind of a tourist from the civilized world. I decided to dispel these myths for myself and spent the whole day visiting the “city of the dead”; it turned out that during this time I could only briefly examine the main attractions; much was left “overboard”...
The cemeteries of Cairo encircle the old Islamic city on the eastern side, interrupted by the Citadel Hill, which divides the “city of the dead” into Northern and Southern parts. They are called the Northern Cemetery and, accordingly, the Southern Cemetery. You can get there by taxi, but I came to the Northern Cemetery on foot from Hussein Square, the distance is about half a kilometer.
Previously, the Mamluk mausoleums stood freely behind the fortress wall, now they are squeezed on all sides by residential areas, and are almost in the center of the city. This is clearly visible in old photographs and paintings from the 19th century.
Cemeteries began to be actively populated in the 60s of the last century; refugees from the Suez Canal area were settled here. At first, there were problems with the infrastructure here - there were a lot of people, but apparently, the government dealt with it. Now, in my subjective opinion, the cemeteries are at best half populated, the streets are absolutely deserted during the day, while adults can still go to work, children should be running around in huge numbers - but none of this is noticeable.
This is a quiet, calm area, similar to ours summer cottages. There are shops, buses run, fences and houses are very good for Egypt - you can see a lot of renovations, there are also modern buildings. At the Southern Cemetery, things are somewhat worse, but still, it seems to me that it is better to live here than in makeshift high-rise buildings on the outskirts, which will collapse on the heads of the residents a little longer.
Of course, the idea that people were supposedly forced into cemeteries to live in crypts is incorrect from the very beginning. There were wastelands here, which were later reclaimed by the local population. It seems that people first came here in the year 1967, built houses, and then filled the cemeteries - the mortality rate in Egypt is very high, otherwise I cannot explain such a density of burials, because in old photos the mausoleums stand absolutely free.
You can start exploring the “city” from anywhere, but first you should assess the area from some hill and plot an approximate route - it’s very difficult to navigate “on the ground”, even with a map. The bulk of the monuments of the Northern Cemetery stretch from north to south along a line passing approximately through the center. The mausoleums of the Southern Cemetery are grouped for the most part in the north, near the Citadel
The most significant monuments of the Northern Cemetery are the mosque, khanqah and mausoleum of Sultan Inal, the mosque and mausoleum of Faraj Barkuk, the Barsbey complex and the complex of Sultan Qaitbey, and numerous mausoleums scattered throughout the area of the “dead city”.
The Sultan Inal complex, built in 1451-1456, is located in the very north of the cemetery. It consists of the ruins of a mosque, a madrasah, a Sufi khanaka, in fact, it is an entire Islamic monastery.
Sultan Al-Inal, being a purebred Circassian Mamluk, until the end of his days never mastered the Arabic language - he could neither read nor write. He used only his Caucasian dialect, but he built many religious buildings, thus showing his zeal for Islam.
Adjacent to it is the burial complex of Emir Kurkumys (1506), who led the Mamluk army under Sultan Kaitbey.
Together the two complexes constitute a huge archaeological zone.
Complex of Emir Kurkumys and Sultan Inal (painting by David Roberts - early 19th century)
During the examination, I was helped, or most likely hindered, by a young man in a shirt and trousers, energetic and clear-cut as in the army. He opened the doors to the interior, regulating my stay at the site, like you can’t go here, but you can go there, and he constantly got into the lens, making it very difficult to take a picture without him. There are a lot of such young people in identical shirts in the “city of the dead”. Of course, I am impressed that the Egyptian government is concerned about my safety, but without them it would be much more convenient. If you really can’t do without guides, then I personally like clergymen better, they are more relaxed and meditative, and less interested in the course of events.
The Great Mosque and Mausoleum of Faraj ibn Barquq (1400-1411) was built by the son of the founder of the Burji Mamluk tower corporation for his father.
He is also known for the fact that he was able to quite easily get rid of the troops of the great Tamerlane, giving him Alleppo and Damascus. The Mamluks used scorched earth tactics, and the Iron Lame did not reach Cairo.
The complex of the Sultan of Barsbay (1433) consists of several mausoleums and a mosque. The “tower” Mamluk Al-Ashraf Barsbey is known as the conqueror of Cyprus; under him, Egypt had a very significant Mediterranean navy.
The complex of Sultan Qaitbey (1472-1474) consists of a huge number of buildings - mausoleums, hospitals and mosques.
True, I was not allowed into the main mosque because of prayer, I had to limit myself to photographing the outer door, it was worth it.
The mausoleums of the “river” Bahri Mamluks are from an earlier era.
Mausoleum of Um Anuk of Princess Tughay (1348) - the beloved wife of Sultan An-Nasir Muhammad, who became famous for his extensive construction in Cairo - the construction of a mosque in the Citadel and the construction of the Great Aqueduct.
Mausoleum of Al-Saab Banat (15th century) Burji Mamluks
Al-Rifai Mausoleum (16th century), Burji Mamluks
Yunus Al-Dawadar (1382) - one of the earliest “Circassian” mausoleums, Al-Dawadar was the manager of Sultan Barquq, he died in a battle in Syria, and was not buried in his mausoleum.
Starting from the Citadel and further south, the age of the monuments increases, which once again proves that historical Center The city is shifted to the south, towards Fustat and ancient Babylon, where the Coptic quarter is now located. The southern cemetery is dominated by mausoleums of the “river” Bahri Mamluks, and there are even buildings from the Fatimid era.
Southern Cemetery (David Roberts - early 19th century painting)
Southern Cemetery late 19th early 20th century.
The small mausoleum of Rajab Al-Shirazi (1379), sandwiched between houses, is located at the foot of the Citadel. Perhaps this is the last representative of the “river” Mamluks.
Southern Cemetery
Mausoleum, minaret and khanqah of the Al-Sultaniya complex (1350-1360), Mamluks “Bahri” - in the Southern Cemetery. It is made in the Persian style, and may belong to the mother of Sultan Hassan, who built the largest mosque in the city.
P.S. Of course, I wanted to create a positive image of cemeteries and Cairo in general, although, of course, I must admit, I still had a lot of photos that I did not post so as not to disturb the “harmony”. Everyone already knows about the mountains of garbage, packs of stray dogs, the ubiquitous dirt and dust. I just want to emphasize the constant presence of Cairo dust, this substance makes photography very difficult; there is much more of it in cemeteries than in city neighborhoods, and it is much finer than sand in the desert. By the end of the day, my camera stopped working there, I decided that it had come to its senses, I even thought about all sorts of superstitions associated with the “city of the dead” - after all, millions of the dead are buried here, and I was very actively climbing over their graves... But after 30 minutes she shook and came to life, Allah is merciful... In short, take care of your equipment, and yourself too...
Cairo - fairytale city"One Thousand and One Nights", to which I always want to return...
This city combines both a modern metropolis and ancient civilization, and the largest economy in Africa with Asia and Europe combined. Past, present and future.
Today the site - Let's dream together, will tell you why Cairo is called the “city of the dead”, what is the population of densely populated city Africa, how the luxury of the East coexists with poverty on the outskirts...
Cairo's unusually favorable location, right in the Nile River Delta, allowed the small village to become the center of the Islamic world in a very short period of time.
Trade in herbs and spices, ceramics and jewelry made it possible for the city to develop thanks to the countless profits that flowed like a river. Mosques and palaces were built at an incredible pace, and the well-being of citizens grew.
Cairo has become a city of “a thousand minarets.” But things are not so rosy at the moment.
Population of Cairo
The population of the Egyptian capital is more than 20 million and the housing shortage forces many to look for new places to live or at least for recreation.
Recycling in Europe and Cairo
On the outskirts of Cairo, the “City of the Dead” stretches for four and a half kilometers. The old Arab cemetery has turned into a necropolis.
Entire families huddle around burial grounds, necropolis tombs, mausoleums and tombs. Almost 500,000 people chose this part of the city to live.
City of the Dead Cairo - El Arafa
Far from the bustle of the capital, entire generations of Egyptians exist among the tombstones. The dead and the living live the measured life of good neighbors.
The locals are called “the guardians of the graves.”
The cemetery allows them to make a living. For cleaning and guarding graves and digging new ones for burials.
For the poor deceased, it costs $19 to dig a grave, and up to $60 for wealthy clients. This allows gravediggers to support large families. Women are engaged in cleaning and cleaning the burials attached to them. Children play and grow there.
Garbage bags rot in the sun awaiting sorting
The empty tomb serves as a bedroom or living room for an entire family. The mausoleum provides shelter from the heat and sun, and it is convenient to dry clothes on the tombstone.
On Fridays it is customary to visit buried relatives. This is additional income for hairdressers from the City of the Dead. Getting a haircut and shaving for Friday prayers is sacred.
Making money by collecting and sorting waste is the easiest way to make a living
Milk, fruits and vegetables are sold among the graves in the morning. The city within the city lives and develops at its own unhurried rhythm.
The authorities have made attempts to move people from these slums to new houses on the outskirts, but the population is so large that this solution has now become almost impossible to implement.
Cairo - "diamond button"
This unusual name it received thanks to its favorable location. The beginning of the Nile River, the delta, made it possible to combine industry, agriculture and manufacturing in Egypt.
Creating unified trade and transport routes is the main point. The closure of the delta has acquired the associative name of the “diamond button”.
Cairo - the city of scavengers
Once you move a little south, you find yourself in the garbage collectors' quarter. This is in the Zabela medina area. Making money by collecting and sorting waste is the easiest way to make a living and a chance to earn extra money. The state encourages residents in every possible way to buy recycled waste.
Cairo produces more than 15,000 tons of solid waste every day. Of these, 60% are sorted and 40% remain in landfills and streets.
Children collect and recycle plastic bottles and paper
Children rush home from school to earn money and pocket money by sorting garbage.
There are special kiosks everywhere with signs indicating what waste is accepted where. The waste is then compacted and sent to factories for reuse or recycling.
This area is not only a place where waste is sorted, but also just a residential area. With its own shops, cafes, pharmacies and hairdressers. Like everywhere else, people live and work close to home.
And on the side of the road there are piles of waste: bags of garbage rotting in the sun, waiting to be sorted. Children climb on them and rummage through the waste, hoping to find remnants of fabric or cardboard. Even used diapers can become a source of income: pieces of cotton wool will be used...
Are you still complaining about your job?
And in the Zabela region, people are happy about the opportunity to earn money. They are happy to take pictures with tourists, children enjoy candy and gifts. Laundry is dried over the mountains with garbage, goats live and graze on the roofs (because there is nowhere else) and life goes on as usual.
Life in contrasts despite everything...
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