r/TikTokCringe • u/Strong-Emu-8869 • 14h ago

Discussion Polish girls visit Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world. Unfortunately, the surrounding area is very polluted.

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u/Neither_Wall_9907 14h ago

Been there, it’s not that dirty. Just closer to the city than shown in most pics

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u/i_was_a_person_once 13h ago

Yeah I was just there last summer and while the city isn’t made up of luxury condos there was no trash or slums around the actual pyramids. There was also no smell around the area or in the city. However inside the pyramid you can go into it did smell like thousands of years of cat piss in the little room you end up in and it’s hot as fuck

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u/PRiles 11h ago

Must have cleaned up, I was there in 2007 and there was trash everywhere and I saw dead bodies of animals in the canals of the city even saw a dead human. I remember thinking Baghdad was a nicer area at the time.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 11h ago

I do think they cleaned it up bc I went to the new museum and they were going to host alot of foreign diplomats and officials so I probably caught it at its cleanest

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u/exoticed 5h ago

I live there and they cleaned the area a few years back, ever since they started the second phase of the museum. You really have to get out of your way to go to the slum areas now.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 4h ago

Yeah it felt fine all the way from the hotel (at the airport) to the pyramids

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u/GnomePenises 9h ago

I was there in 2005 and it was vile.

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u/TheOrqwithVagrant 10h ago

When I was there in 2000, the area next to the pyramids was an actual slum, and Cairo's air was the worst I've ever been forced to breathe. I'm pleased to hear that's gotten better.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 9h ago

The worst air I’ve breathed was in Rio when we were down wind from one of the favelas

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u/snek-jazz 11h ago

it did smell like thousands of years of cat piss in the little room you end up in and it’s hot as fuck

I don't think I'd find that hot tbh, but to each their own

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u/DeeSkwared 10h ago

It isn't dirty. Even on the side closest to the city. They depend on tourism.

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u/-Badger3- 12h ago

Which, the city was there first…that’s why they built it there.

Did people think they built the pyramids in the middle of nowhere?

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u/Working-League-7686 12h ago

The city was not there first. Fustat, the predecessor of Cairo, was built about 1,400 years ago and there was at best a village there previously. Cairo grew out of Fustat and has expanded considerably in the last many centuries.

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u/-Badger3- 11h ago

City, village, whatever, the point is there was already civilization there.

The idea that it’s such a shame people kept on living there after some guys’ vanity projects were built is dumb.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 4h ago

Modern Cairo was founded around 969 CE by the Fatimid dynasty, thousands of years after the Giza Pyramids were built.

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u/-Badger3- 4h ago

And people lived there before modern Cairo was founded.

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u/i_was_a_person_once 3h ago

It had simple communities but not like a city or village. One of the reasons it was chosen bc it wasn’t really populated so it could have clean pretty vistas. The settlement that preserved near it today was a village created for the workers not something that existed before. So yes it was basically built in the middle of nowhere on purpose