Cairo bazaar - Dec 28, 2008 - 42

This woman was asking for donations, but not too aggressively ... and while she definitely looked "north African," she was different from most of the other Cairo residents that I saw. I don't know if she was of Nubian descent (from southern, or "upper," Egypt), or perhaps from Algeria, Morocco, or some other African country...

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After we visited the Citadel and the Alabaster mosque, we drove to the ancient bazaar of Cairo -- and spent a couple of hours walking through the crowded streets, listening to the frenzied sales pitches of merchants along the way, and stopping for lunch at a nice restaurant in the middle of the bazaar...