There are two types of pedestrians in modern Cairo, the quick and the dead. Our tour guide said that the safest way to cross the street is to take a taxi and when we went one block too the Egyptian Museum, we took the bus. But old Cairo with its shaded allies and old door ways maintains its medieval charm. The streets are two narrow even for the donkey carts. The streets are cool and are relatively uncrowned once the tour groups leave. The Coptic churches are beautiful and as the Coptics say, “they were Christian before there was Christianity.” Egypt is about twenty percent Christian and they are proud of the bible stories that take place in Egypt. It is a secular country, not Moslem and you will find Mosques, Christian Churches and synagogues on the same block. We met a woman named Barbara who’s house was a converted Christian crypt from the 14th century and I got to see my first banana tree.
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