Egypt! Part 3

A friend had mentioned that he read my blog and mentioned the bazaars in Cairo. Though, I only made one email about that... Regardless, here is a blog post about it. Imagine if the internet had a place in the real world, where pop ups availed you constantly, and you were litterally seconds from SNES's, VCRs, Herbal suppliments, High Definition TVs, trinkets, and cell phones all intermingled with the occassional smoke bar and resturaunt.

This is the Cairo Bazaar. Litterally miles of alley ways and carts (please let that settle in for a second), the bazaar extends far beyond your line of site into seedy areas and pleasant bars. It took almost a half hour of traveling into and through the ancient bazaar for the bus to get toward a point that we could be left off at. Its' immense span is where litterally everything is sold no matter how obscure or necessary. It's loud. The smell of which changes drastically and liberally from the smell of goat being cooked to sewage to smoke from a passing deisel bus and back to a pleasant perfume and beyond.

You barter for everything. Very few things have a listed price, and even less are at a price you'd actually purchase at. There would be more pictures, particularly of the more common alley ways. But as it were, we were given a stern warning about the successful, and about as old, pickpocket trade.