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At first, we thought he was scamming to get us to a
                                                              cousin’s shop, so we chose the Chinese souk where
                                                              we had seen lots of people coming and going. That
                                                              was, in hindsight, not a wise course of action.
                                                                We quickly found ourselves in a narrow pedestrian
                                                              street lined with shops.  The brown and ochre build-
                                                              ings that lined the alleys were in various states of
                                                              repair – from grand to uninhabitable ruins. The hot,
                                                              crowded passageways were full of litter, dust and
                                                              small colorful shops with table after table of assorted
                                                              stuff,  not the exotic souvenirs we expected. Push-
                                                              ing through the crowds was exhausting and at times
                                                              scary.
                                                                 As it turned out, we had spent our first hour in the
                                                              home goods section of the market – stocked to the
                                                              rafters with everything for Egyptian household, from



             Scenes from the colorful and bustling
             streets of the Khan Al-Khalili.









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