On Saturday, September 12, Scott, Mike and I went down to the Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo. We spent the day walking around and then returned to Tahrir Square where we had dinner at Felfella and then cought the Metro back to Maadi.
The market is a maze of narrow streets (I think until you get the hang of it). Here is a picture looking down one of the streets. Can you spot the tourists?
There are several famous mosques in this area of Cairo, but I cannot remember their names. Here is a picture of one.
We walked through the market down to the old city wall. There were signs on a lot of the structures with the date they were built, and most of this stuff was built around 1100AD.
A few more pictures of the market.
Here are two videos in the cab from the Khan el-Khalili market back to Tahrir Square.
Here our driver is a bit impatient getting around an accident:
After we got around the trouble, the driver opened a bag of dates and offered them to us. We've been here about 3 or 4 weeks now, and most of us are starting to have some stomach trouble.
Scott (who has lived here before) just told me earlier that the best thing to do is stick to cooked vegatebles and bread. So you can hear me asking, "Are we going to regret this?" Meaning,
eating this uncooked, unwashed fruit.
Scott says no, pauses and then adds "en shallah" which means "God willing."
So we ate the dates, which were delicous and as of the next day no problems.
As we were going to the restaurant, we had to cross a really busy street in downtown, near the Egyptian Museum. I stepped out, but
then hesitated (as only a toursit would do) and then stepped back as traffic rushed by. Then I heard a voice down the street yell at me
in perfect but heavily accented English, "Close your eyes, pray to Allah, and go!"
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