CAIRO
Cairo is a city of 22 million
inhabitants, the capital of Egypt and a semi-mythical center of the
Arab world. The city is well-structured, has wide avenues. Masses of
people, buildings,
heavy traffic, cacophony of car horns ..... and the magical blue Nile: THIS
IS CAIRO.
We stayed in a small hotel not far from Midan Tahrir, and spent there 3 days
trying to have
some impressions and to visit some of the most outstanding site.
| Midan Tahrir is the main square in Cairo. | View from Cairo Tower (island Al-Gezira). | View from Cairo Tower (island Al-Gezira). | This tree has roots coming from the top. (island Al-Gezira) |
| View from a Nile bridge. Cairo Tower and Hotel Sheraton. | Greek Orthodox monastery in Old (Coptic) Cairo. | St. George Church inside the monastery. | Beautiful marble yard of the monastery. |
| Mosque Al-Azhar. The left tower has two peaks, symbolizing Shiits and Sunits. | Mosque Al-Azhar. | Souq Khan Al-Khalili, famous bazar of Cairo. | Walking in the souq, I wore traditional dress, so I could avoid harassing... |
| Citadel in Cairo. Local traffic was quite hectic...as usual.... | Mosque Mohammed
Ali (in the Citadel). Built: 1830-48 |
Amazing Islamic art in Mosque Mohammed Ali. | Tourists in
mosque Mohammed Ali. (European group on the left side, Egyptian group on the right side) |
| We hired this car in Cairo. | This was our plate number. Can anybody read it ? | Green fields and palm trees in the Nile Valley. | We had to stop at the police checkpoints in each village and town. Police were always very polite. |
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Sunset at river Nile (north from Luxor)... |
