Wandering through the streets of Cairo....

Saturday morning, after a nice breakfast of Tom's amazing scrambled eggs, Tom and I decided to venture into the unknown and explore the unexplored streets of Cairo.

A man on horse and carring carrying iron in the middle of a busy street

We thus first took Metro to Attaba to get myself another piece of luggage, as I discovered that I couldn't fit all my stuff into the bags I had, then we decided to find our way to Hussain – (Khan el Khalili)

Through our instinct and memory, we followed a bridge that we thought would lead us to our destination……… not knowing that this bridge would lead us to amazing discoveries!!!

The maze of bridges in Cairo

We walked along streets selling thousands of stuff; we found the cloth street, and the spare parts street, and the shoe maker street, and the shoe polisher street as well as the clothes street……. We walked and walked followed by choruses of 'Welcome to Egypt' and 'Where you from?' from Egyptians who either wanted to show us that they could speak some English, or were just trying to be friendly.

We strolled through unknown streets, and found ourselves in the middle of old cairo, with magnificent towering mosques, the infamous Bab Zawela and the old city walls!!!

The street leading to Bab Zawela, one of the entrances of the Old City

It was a great afternoon, although we are dying in the scorching heat, we still managed to enjoy the beauty of the old city.

Vegetable vendor next to a beautiful mosque

We then treated ourselves to a nice big Cheese feteer and Banana feteer and a cold can of Coke!!!!

Around the old city