Streets & Markets
Shopping
TODO — what shopping in Cairo are actually worth the time.
2 placesIslamic Cairo
Khan el-Khalili
A bazaar since 1382, half of it selling alabaster cats to visitors and half of it selling gold and spices to Cairo.
Bab Zuweila
The Tentmakers' Street
The last covered market in Cairo, where men still hand-stitch appliqué panels in a trade that is genuinely dying.