Now that we have survived the initial cultural onslaught of Cairo, you might think we'd be starting to mellow out a bit. Well, you'd be wrong. Today we took a taxi to Khan Al Khalili bazaar to get a real sense of going local, which is to say " is there anything we haven't stepped in yet?" Sure, there was plenty! Here's just a sample.
We put our shoes in a plastic bag when we got back to the hotel. Then, right in the middle of the squalor, you find buildings like this.
And then you see this
This was the spice market. I found out cumin is bigger than you think. So are pomegranates.
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