Egypt Day Two: Night on the Town

Today most of the students took much earned naps and relaxed while a few finished projects. In the late evening I took a group of 16 students out. First we spend an hour sailing on the nile in a gaff-rigged sailboat called a "felucca". Then we drove to a touristy area call Khan El Khalili for dinner and shopping at the bazaar. It was pretty fun and crazy. Sort of like old Tijuanna but with Eyptian junk instead. One kid about 15 years old tried to sell one of my young mail students some hashish, and another tried to show a student pictures on his cell phone of some action he had upstairs. Mostly it was just some semi-agressive but polite street vendors. I ended up buying some perfume essence and a papyrus scroll depicting the judgement in heiroglyphics.

Mosque on the way to the Nile River

Another mosque at night

We went sailing on a felucca

Group photo on our felucca. We had another eight students on another boat

Dinner was flat bread, hummus dip, cinnamon rice, lamb sausage, grilled veal and steamed vegetables.

This little music combo was playing in the restaurant. Notice the guy smoking the water pipe next to the zither player

This was us walking through the bazaar on the way to the restaurant.