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Khan El-Khalili
23 July 2009
What visit to a large foreign city would be complete without a visit to their eccentric shopping centers or ancient craft shops to receive something of antiquity or tradition? Or maybe you seek something modern to bring back as a tourist from a foreign land to show off to everyone. Old and new, artistic and bulk materials, cloth and stone, you can find all of those things in Egyptian souks. Khan el-Khalili is one of these areas, and a major one of the city and the region itself. [...]
Posted in Places To Visit
Cairo Opera Houses
23 July 2009
You might not think Opera, when you conjure up images of Egyptian culture and massive deserts, but you may be surprised when you really look at what you can find in this culture rich metropolis. It might be a fairly new, expanding as of late facility, but Egypt does attract its fair share of entertainment and performers. Originally erected in 1869, the original attractor and bastion of Egyptian opera and entertainment was the Khedivial [...]
Posted in Things To Do
The Egyptian Museum
22 July 2009
Once known by its proper full name of "museum of antiquities", it is now known simply as the Egyptian Museum. Here is one of the most famed museums world wide, nestled into the ancient city of Cairo, amidst the ruins of dynasties and the times of kings. Any museum in such an area would by default have a reputation to live up to and need to impress those who entered. The Egyptian museum rises to the occasion and flies right past it. [...]
Posted in Places To Visit
The Nile River
13 July 2009
The Nile river stretches thousands of miles fromm Northern Africa on south, across deserts and through Cairo Egypt, providing a life giving source of sustenance to a plethora of ecosystems. It is listed as the single longest river in the world, with two main tributaries adding to its beauty and size, the White and Blue Nile. The Blue Nile provides most of the river its water and mass, with its life giving soil, while the white tributary [...]
Posted in Featured, The Wonders of Egypt
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