Going around:
Although a cruise in your car around Maadi is a very delightful thing to do and is a tradition to many people whom appreciate architecture, greenery or just the sounds of birds in their ears, there are some things you should know about:

Do not be surprised if you are driving around Maadi and find a dozen of security guards or police officers around a certain villa or property, this scene could be duplicated 26 times for each of the 26 foreign ambassadors who chose Maadi as their residential neighborhood.

Throughout the same driving journey, which mostly you find pleasant and relaxing in those empty peaceful streets you can sense sudden traffic jams indicating that you are in or just about to enter one of the two main commercial strips: road 9 or the western road leading to the Autostrad (highway connecting Maadi to Nasr city and Heliopolis) that is because Maadi was not designed to cope with such commercial concentrations nor with their huge gatherings.

Extending your drive throughout "Degla" or "New Maadi" you will be faced with construction, loads of it too, people who have failed to buy property inside Maadi simply chose to operate just outside "Degla" and the east side in general and construct a total mess of high rise buildings and road networks initiating the feelings of disturbance and resent in the hearts of most of Maadi's citizenry.