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Ready for our ride!
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Okay, I'm up
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So are Tara and Hanaa
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We made it to the Pyramids
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Posing at the Pyramids
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Hanaa & her cousin Esmat
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Hanaa pouring our tea
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Walking home from dinner at Trattoria, I snapped a shot of this curious building near the Armenian Embassy
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We began our walk on Gamaleya Street, near Bab Nasr
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Street still life
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A peek in a doorway finds a man eating breakfast
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A serenade near Bayt al-Suhaymi
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Naguib Mahfouz's novel has wayward son Yasin living on this street
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Khanqa (Sufi spiritual retreat) of Baybars al-Jashankir
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A mosque further along Gamaleya Street where crossed polo sticks above one window alude to the owner's passtime
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How much longer?
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Another building left to decline on Haret al-Tabaksheya
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Beautiful nevertheless
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Another Cairo, now crumbling and covered in dust
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Beit al-Qadi Square is often mentioned in Naguib Mahfouz's "Cairo Trilogy"
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Leaving the Square, we're in Haret Kard
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We found more crumbling beauty
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Reading brought me here
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But I didn't picture it like this
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The famous Qirmiz Alley from Naguib Mahfouz's novel "Cairo Trilogy"
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Color coordinated!
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Hamam Inal, just opposite where we turned left into a small lane, Haret Beir al-Qadi
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Dome and minaret of Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Mosque from the Beit al-Qadi passageway
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How had I never seen this passageway before? It's Haret Beir al-Qadi
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Life on el-Muiz or Nahasin Street
