Exploring Khan el Khalili Bazaar in Cairo | Egypt
The Khan el Khalili Bazaar in Cairo is incredible! When you close your eyes and imagine walking down a street in Cairo, this is it. It is mosaic of brown, tan, and beige. Trinkets hang in shop stalls. Feral cats and dogs roam the streets, unfazed by the walkers by. Part cultural neighborhood, part shopping district, part open-air museum, this area was added to the Unesco World Heritage list in 1979.
The streets here are narrow and winding, with vendors pouring out into the alleyways. There are shops everywhere, some selling legitimate sundries to locals, but most are peddling tacky, touristy crap. Scarfs, magnets, tchotchkes, statues, t-shirts, shot glasses, lamps, ash trays, belly-dancing outfits and miscellaneous bric-a-brac fill every square inch of space.
