Photo Essay: Balade de Saida Zeinab a Geish Square

This whole walk took about 3 hours. We went to Saida Zeinab to Geish Square (to eat chinese). passing by Ibn Tulun, Amir Taz Palace, Bab Zuweila, Azhar park, Azhar mosque, and Moez el-Din Street. Photos taken on July 6th, 2013

View of Saida Zeinab Mosque, with traffic 

Ibn Tulun minaret

Some school. with a nice brick facade/entrance.

Sabil up the street from Ibn Tulun. Amir Taz Palace is down that street on the right.

An old cinema

Coffee bean being roasted on the sidewalk. Smelled SO good

Market street scene with kids playing

Bab Zuweila, one of the seven door guarding Old Cairo

Probably from the early 20th 

Street Scene with minaret in the background

The old wall they discovered at the foot of Azhar park 

View from the top of Azhar park

Citadel in the background

Lots of romance going on at this particular spot... :-)

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Almost NO room for light to pass through in between the buildings 

Islamic library. telling of how close we were to al-azhar university/mosque

Chinese dog. a sign it was time for chinese food in Abaseya 

Abdel Zaher

eh ya HAG BOULBOUL el-HELW عامل ايه؟؟؟

I never noticed this before, but here we have a nice mural

EXPERIENCE THE ADVENTURE FOR YOURSELF!

This is a nice, typical message that people living abroad tend to get:

"Wow, stunning photos "Joe". it looks like you're having a surreal experience. i can't wait to hear about your adventures someday! ♥"

Stunning? okay, maybe. thanks. How flattering of you. or maybe you're just impressed by what's in the photos more so than my photographic skill. meh, either way, thanks. 

Words like "surreal experience" and "adventure" are what get to me. I might just be quibbling over semantics here, and perhaps there's an element of "every person's experience of something depends on their background"... 
But, I guess, what I mean to say, is that for the natives who live in foreign countries of whatever photo in question, the stuff that you see in the photos isn't an "adventure" or "surreal"... it's routine life... ( إلى حد ما ). Sure, for you it might be surreal to see the pyramids, but I guarantee that a majority of the people living with a view of the pyramids would rather be living in bumble-fuck-dingle-berry Arkansas. 

But, I guess, my point regarding "i can't wait to hear about your adventures someday!" is: 
GO, GET OUT THERE and EXPERIENCE THE ADVENTURE FOR YOURSELF!

A couple Pyramids, with Cairo's informal urban areas in the background. 

someone just installed a new airconditioner line in their flat...
Grey in a week (like the unit above it).