The Strangest Places To Live In The World - Welcome Home!
August 31, 2024
By
Holly Toledo
Human beings have reached the top of the food chain not because we're the biggest, most vigorous, or maybe even the most intelligent creatures (whales are pretty freaking smart), but because we have proven that we can stubbornly live in some incredibly bizarre and downright inhospitable conditions. As adaptable as people are, these ten places are some of the strangest human habitations on earth.Check them out and marvel at the lengths to which some folks can go to survive or to get away from it all.
10. Egypt’s Trash Slum
Worn brick walls in Cairo’s Garbage City, marked with crosses that echo the resilience of the Zabbaleen community. Photo Credit: GloboTreks
GloboTreksCairo, Egypt, is one of the most densely-populated cities globally, and it has a long history of not knowing what to do with its trash. The solution that residents have come up with is baffling but evidently compelling. The nearby suburb of Manshiyat Naser has become the unofficial landfill for Cairo. Inhabitants of the "town," for lack of a better word, collect the trash from Cairo and sort out up to 90 percent of the waste into recyclables and organics. The recyclables get sold, the organics get eaten by a vast roving herd of pigs, and the rest gets crammed into every available nook and cranny.
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