Islamic Cairo
March 12th 2006 We started our day by going to the Citadel.-which is the big walled complex on top a hill overlooking Cairo with the big Muhammad Ali Mosque (tomorrow we are going to the George Foreman Mosque…lol). It was home to Egypt’s rulers for over 700 years. You have to take off your shoes before entering the mosques, and I was proud not to be one of the women they had to shroud in cloth to cover up t
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