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

Photo: Garbage Caterpillar

Ahh, yes, yet another expat ever so fascinated by the effects of a poorly managed waste management system in the developing world...

Might I add, that, as I was taking this photo, a friendly but quite concerned and upset lady exclaimed to me: "Why are you taking photos of GARBAGE!? Why do you have to show the UGLINESS of our country!?"
I quelled her concerns with something along the lines of: "Egypt has beautiful things and ugly things, and it's good to show both. Don't worry, we're going to go to Ibn Tulun mosque after this and take lots of beautiful photos too." She was okay with that. :-)

Here is a pretty much failed attempt of me harnessing the powers of photoshop:

Garbage management in Saida Zeinab, Cairo, Egypt

Here's what the original looked like: