After two days in Alexandria, we returned to Cairo to begin the main Wilderness Travel tour, "In the Wake of Cleopatra: Sailing to the Temples of the Nile". But before getting on the dahabiya (sailing yacht), we spent a couple of days in Cairo. The city has some fabulous mosques and museums (not to mention the Giza pyramids and Sphinx), about which I'll be posting in the next several days. But first, some views of the city, which (counting the metro area including Cairo and Giza) has a population of over 20 million. It's the largest city in Africa and has grown haphazardly, replacing Nile-fertilized cropland with crowded, often half-finished apartment buildings.
Our tour leader, Mohamed Ossama, enjoying an after-lunch water pipe.
Attractive street art, like that shown below, is rare but appreciated.
More conventional "street photography" is from the Khan El Khalili, or Grand Bazaar, one of the largest in the world.
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