The center of Cairo boils with activity, it is filled with shops, malls, restaurants, take aways and people selling in the street daily useful stuff and completely useless junk. Billion coloured lights flash everywhere around, in the middle of the night the noise of the horns decreases....but it never totally dies (mal bicho nunca muere). I sat in one of the restaurants in this little street to eat the whole menu: brain, liver, salad and tahina:
The Tahrir square is a massive (and means really massive) square en the centre of Cairo where governmental buildings, mosques, the Egyptian museum and KFC can be found. A street view from the metro station exit:
Just around the corner from where this picture was taken, there is this tiny old style cafe with tables on the pavement and on the street...where old men smoke shisha:
If this city is the city of the thousands minarets, then it could as well be the city of the million cafes :) I have just tasted a few of them. This is the view of a shop from a cafe in El kalili souk where i sat all nite:
In the city center we sat in a quite nice cafe, hidden in a back street:
This cafe was very particular as the building next to it looked very suspicious. Loud music banging through its windows, laughs of women, dodgy guy in the door and so many air conditioners...what happens in that place to get so hot???
And finally my lovely local in Helwan with its chilled out atmosphere and its carved chairs:
The filled stones ready to be smoked in the shishas:
The covers of the shishas piled up on a dusty box :
And in the entrance of my local you can find the latest model of washing machine, i have never seen one this size before...and i really dunno what is it doing there:
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