Today we took the egyptian subway to the Mar Girgis station where Old Cairo is situated. Here we checked out some greek-orthodox churches and the Amr ibn al-As mosque.

Then we took the train back to our hotel and ate "Beef Shewarma Fatta" at a restaurant near our hotel. I don't know really what it was we ate but it tastet good. We got pretty much food so we returned half of it to the chef.

After the meal we took a taxi to islamic Cairo to try out a tour that was described in our Lonely PLanet guide book. The tour was not easy to follow... we ended up walking by ourselves. The Khan el-khalili market was big. Lots of people. And labyrinths of narrow corridors.
The citadel was closed when we arrived.
It was now getting darker.

We ran into an egyptian man who had studied history and wanted to show us around. Together with him we walked to the blue mosque and payed an entry fee of 20 pounds and an additional 20 pounds to climb up in the tower (according to the lonely planet book the tower had a great view of Cairo). Tobbe had a swedish student card so he payed half price for the tower.
The view was pretty nice. It was dark and the citadel was nicely illuminated. I photographed a 360-panorama. We then thanked him for the little tour, he asked us if we wanted to give him money to his sick wife... We offered him 1 pound but he didn't want that...
We took a taxi back to the hotel, bought some sweets (we hadn't got any dinner), rested for a couple of hours and now - midnight - we are sitting in an internet cafe. I think there will be one our more "sugo" (egyptian fast-food goes hotdog) before bedtime.
See you!