"Every cultural instinct and previous experience tells
you that when you travel this far you should find,
at the very least, people on camels. There should
be unrecognizable lettering on signs, and swarthy
men in robes drinking coffee from thimble-sized
cups and puffing on hookahs, and rattletrap buses and
potholes in the road and the real possibility of
disease on everything you touch -- but no,
it's not like that at all."
Bill Bryson
from A Sunburned Country
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