Khan el Khalily is the biggest bazaar in Cairo. It has anything that any tourist would ever want. Plus, it is the heart of the old city. Hence, many of the buildings and the mosques in the area range in age from a couple hundred to over a thousand years old. The cafe we are in, Fishawly's, for example, has been open continiously for three hundred years or so. Imagine a place that has been open longer than your country has existed. When put this way it really rings true how young our country is compared to the rest of the world.
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beautiful photo, the reflective one. It's fantastic to think how many people have shared their thoughts with each other in that cafe over the course of 300 years. I wonder what it looked like originally. Want to visit, but probably not for a while. You're staying for five years right? :)
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