Cairo

Marion Ravenwood in Cairo as shown in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

**Cairo** is a real-world city which is the capital of Egypt.

## Description

Cairo is a city located in Lower Egypt along the delta of the Nile river. Cairo is the largest city in Egypt along with being its capital and has one of the largest metropolitan areas on Earth. Cairo is also home to and in the vicinity of several historic structures of Ancient Egypt including the Pyramids of Giza and ancient city of Memphis.

## Jungle Cruise appearances

### Attractions

#### Club 33

During the Tiki Takeover event, were menus with tickets from the *S.E.A. Global Charters Atlantic Lines* which was for transit from Cairo to Progresso, Mexico in July, 1943 for *Jungle Cruise* character Rosa Soto Dominguez.

#### Jungle Cruise

In promotional materials for the 2021 Jungle Cruise refurbishment, Cairo was mentioned alongside London and New York City by Alberta Falls in an interview for *The Daily Gnus* newspaper. Alberta mentioned having been brought to these cities as a young girl prior to 1919 due to the lecture-tours of her historian father, Albert Falls, Jr.. In the *Amazon River Base* there are photographs of unidentified individuals outside of the Pyramids of Giza, located in the vicinity of Cairo.

Incidentally, locations such as Schweitzer Falls and the African veldt are also located on the Nile River due to the Nile being one of the supernatural, "Jungle Rivers of Adventureland". Said locations are presumed to be set either in Egypt or Sudan due to being placed along the Nile River and in North Africa.

### Film

#### Raiders of the Lost Ark

Cairo is a major location in this film where Indiana Jones travels there in 1936 to pursue the Ark of the Covenant. Jones also visited Cairo for multiple episodes of Raiders of the Lost Ark's prequel series, *The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles*.

### Other connections

#### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye

Cairo resident Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir was a major member of the expedition to excavate the *Temple of the Forbidden Eye* in the *Lost Delta* of India.

#### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

Sallah and Trader Sam are identified as friends and contacts with Sallah having visited Sam's bar.

#### Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

During The *Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management!)*, the toucan William's case had a luggage-sticker from Egypt with the pyramids on it.

## Other appearances

### Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!

An in-universe Hollywood film-set represents Cairo for filming of Indiana Jones stunts in this attraction.

### Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress

Cairo is indirectly alluded to in this attraction where during the turn of the century, John's son Jimmy exclaims, "Ooh-la-la! So that’s Little Egypt doing the hoochie-koochie, eh Dad?" upon finding his father's stereoscope. This is an allusion to the belly-dancer Fahreda Mazar Spyropoulos who performed sexually explicit, exoticized dances at the 1893, "Street in Cairo" exhibition in Chicago's World's Fair. The *Little Egypt* moniker is most famously affiliated with the song *The Streets of Cairo* or, "Hoochie Koochie Dance".

## Trivia

* English author C.S. Forester who wrote *The African Queen* (1935) was born in Cairo in 1899.

## Gallery

Cairo's streets as shown in Raiders of the Lost Ark
## References

1. ↑ https://www.yesterland.com/newmanagement.html
2. ↑ https://www.disneyparkscripts.com/carousel-of-progress-magic-kingdom-1994-version/