Transportation
Navigating Cairo's Ferries
Roads transport 95 percent of Egypt’s goods and people, but a ride on the Nile is often faster, cheaper, and free of congestion.
It’s the last hour of the last fast of Ramadan. But fatigue isn’t stopping people from rushing to get onto one of the last boats across the Nile before iftar, when Muslims break their fast. Trying to catch up with his young mother, a boy who looks about two years old trips in a small cloud of dust on the ramp.
“This one’s not going! Take it easy, it’s not going!” yells Ashraf, who has been working here for the past 40 years, since he was six years old. Another person tries to rush on and pay only half of the 1 Egyptian pound ($0.05) fare.