Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas in Cairo (day 2)

The second day in Cairo was religions and history day for us. We started out with a visit to the Citadel and to the nearby Mosque of Mohamed Ali.



From here there are good views out over Cairo.



Our next destination was the Coptic Christian section of Cairo for a look at some of the non-Islamic shrines. Here we made an interesting stop at the Nunnery of St. George, who is also an important figure in Georgia.






And, again, everywhere we went, the route provided plenty of interesting sights.





We bought bags of spices from this guy.


Tourism & Antiquities Police everywhere. Note the automatic weapons.

That evening we enjoyed a dinner cruise on the Nile river, complete with entertainment by a belly dancer and a whirling dervish.



Curious about what that spinning man does? Check out this short video sample. In the show, he whirls non-stop for about 30 minutes!!


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