We're back in Cairo today at the Indiana Hotel. Our train got in two hours late and I think I only got about two hours sleep but the show still goes on and by 9.30 am we'd washed and had our brekky and were back on the road again. This mornings destination was Saqqara and the Step Pyramid.
The Coptic Churches were our stops before lunch. We also visited the Ben Ezra Jewish Temple and a church where the Holy Family were once believed to have lived. Below is one of the tile mosaics that was at one of the churches.
After lunch was the Khan El Khalili Bazaar where I scored a toy camel and a couple cotton blouses for a grand total of five pounds!! Bargain!! The men in this market place literally pounce on any unescorted white women and even with Shihab and Ben I still had a hard time fending them off. This picture shows a common street where the markets are with some high tech road works going on in the middle of the street.
Tonight our group goes to the Giza Sound and Light show at the Pyramids and Sphinx. I think I've developed some kind of tummy bug from swimming in the Nile (Peter also has it and he and I were the only buggers silly enough to swim...) so I'm staying in tonight and have given my ticket to someone else.
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