The road to Downtown Cairo

Things are tearing along at a rapid pace.
We caught the bus to Cairo without any problems, we were the only non egyptians on the coach and we were given the best seats right next to the toilet(pooh) and near to the exit steps so there was no seat in front to impinge our view. It took six hours to reach Cairo and four of them was driving alongside the Sinai desert on one side with a view of the Red Sea on the other. It was enjoyable and relaxing admiring the view; then we reached the Suez Canal where we had a mad moment when the Military stopped everyone and checked all the luggage.
Most people alighted and had a toilet or cigarette stop.
I was fascinated watching the scene beneath the coach window, watching the soldiers going about their search routine religeously...then when we were almost ready to leave... silly me took out my camera and started messing about with it.
Aimlesslessly I pointed it through the window and aimed it at a good looking soldier who was rifling through someone's suitcase. All of a sudden he looked up at the coach and yelled across to the officer in charge, then before I knew it the chief of the Military with two henchmen boarded the coach and took my camera from me.
Fortunately (for me) my battery had failed so there were no recent photos on my camera, nevertheless the man in charge was very authoritive and one by one checked all my previous images to see if there were any prohibited images!!!!
I felt so stupid...we were only in the most secure border crossing ever, The Suez Canal and with such high security at this present time absolutely NO PHOTOGRAPHY is allowed (as is the case at all military bases)
I blame t'old man for not telling me, he should have known !! I dread to think what would have happened if I had been taking photos around the base, do you remember a few years ago those guys who were taking photos of those aircraft in Greece?...they were locked up for ages.
No harm done so we alighted in downtown Cairo and my goodness what a place it is!!!, we were bombarded from all sides with touts trying to fix us up with taxis, accommodation etc. we finally dived into a regulation cab only to find once inside that we were travelling in an old tin can on wheels..there were no seat belts the windows were stuck in the open position, wires were sticking out everywhere and you could only get out by opening the door from the outside!
nevertheless we got to the hotel in one piece for not too much money.