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Cairo Mosque

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May 6th 2008
Up at 6:30 for a walk to the Old Islamic part of Cairo (about an hour and half walk). We go into the Al-Azhar Mosque and get a tour from one of the men there (who asks for a tip and then complains about the amount until we give him more). We then walk to the “City of the Dead” a huge old cemetery where they built houses rather than graves for the dead. Creepy. We then did the rest of our shopp ... read more
Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

Egyptian Flag The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more
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