A couple of days after I returned from Thailand, a friend in Cairo asked me if I wanted to go with her to the Khan al Khalili, the oldest bazaar in Cairo. It wasn’t as if I needed to go shopping having just spent ten days in Thailand, but how could I resist?
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It was actually fairly quiet in the market once we got into the inner streets.
My favorite part of the Khan al Khalili is the architecture – there is never a shortage of things to take pictures of. And there are so many narrow streets and alleys and shops above, hidden up dark stairways, I’m convinced I’ve ever only scratched the surface of this place.
My friend was there looking for a beaded curtain made with glass beads so we ended up in a section full of glass shops.
With my love of silly signage, how could I let this one pass?
It did have rather a celestial feeling upstairs, with all the lanterns hanging from the ceiling.
