In Egypt two smells: dust and poverty. I smelled that same smell of poverty all over the world, starting in Mexico.
In Kenya, the cities were poor, black and miserable. The Brits settled a lot of Kenya so the game parks were fabulous. All very manicured and clean. The game parks are the SOURCE of Kenya's money so they make SURE that they are BEAUTIFULLY kept.
There were no flies in the sun ANYWHERE there as it was way too hot for them. In the shade, many flies. But we all wore the most bodacious bug repellent we could and the flies did NOT like it so we were good to go.
The filthiest country we ever visited was China. I had THOUGHT that Mexico was the filthiest until we went to the middle east.
Then I thought that the middle east was the worst until we went to India. HORRIBLE.
I thought India was the VERY worst until we went to China. CHINA won the filthy award HANDS DOWN. I kind of believed all the Chinese P.R. about how advanced they were getting...until we went there. Lord have mercy.
How wonderful to have been able to travel all over the world like that.
The only place I’ve been is across the border to Nuevo Laredo to look around and shop. (Needless to say, I’ll never do That again)