Cairo: Aug 20 – 22

I managed to get one free day on a trip to Cairo. On the last visit I got to see the pyramids, so this time I visited a few mosques and did some shopping in the street markets. The picture above is the Citadel which sits on a hill in Old Islamic Cairo. There are ancient roman aqueducts that actually move water up the hill without pumps. It is amazing what the ancients could invent - I guess that what happens where there is no TV to suck all the creativity from your mind. One of the mosques I visited was over 700 years old and was simply amazing. I did manage to a get small movie clip of a man calling out to prayer from inside the mosque. The beauty of his voice with the echo of the chamber was breathtaking. I will have to find a way to post the clip for people to see and hear.