Showing posts with label cairo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cairo. Show all posts

October 15, 2010

cairo... once more

A second trip to Cairo was just as the first — captivatingly exhausting.




















April 30, 2010

al azhar park

A gift to Cairo from The Aga Khan... The world could use more such benefactors.









islamic cairo












April 29, 2010

mother of the world

Tea break... how civilized.

Rich public lives = rich social lives = rich sense of identity.







Khan El Khalili.





Rooted in the Nile.





The banks of the Nile come alive at night with hypnotic, pulsating, colourful, youthful energy.

Just hangin' outside the car... (Much more fun than having a conversation seated inside.)


I LOVE the tea and coffee shops of Cairo; for sure I could be one of these old dudes...