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hey, my friends who are visiting me want to go to the City of the Dead. How do i get a taxi there? whats the name in Arabic? is there a spot better than others to see? How much is a taxi from tahrir to there?
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Call a driver named Raafat Khella. He is a taxi driver and knows the City of the Dead forwards and backwards. He used to be a policeman there. He can show you it well. If he isn't available, another good one is Mr. Hanafy. He is also very good at showing the City of the Dead.
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Thanks Debbie!! by the way I found the volume 1 bookstore very easily after I talked to you! thank you very much! I finally found a nice daily planner and a few interesting books!
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I went round the City of the Dead for the first time last week. It was an amazing place. For anyone who has not seen it, the City in mad up of thousandds of tombs,has a large mosque in the middle and covers a vast area of Cairo. The streets are completely lined with tombs which ofen look like small one-storey houses.
From the top of the minarette you can see that three quarters of the area is still as it was although some of the tombs are lived in but the other quarter has become a small town with some tombs having three stories of flats built on top of them. In this part, the ground floor tombs have been turned into coffee shops, car repair shops and just about everything else that you would find in an Egyptian village.
The highlight of my visit was the tomb of King Farouk which I saw just as the sun was setting. It was like something from every Vampire film I had ever seen. Including a curator with a big key, an open trap door to an underground vault and fading light. Spooky but exhilerating.
If you are in Cairo it is certainly worth adding to your itinerary. Also I had no feeling of danger or unease that the guidebooks sometimes warn of. I felt as safe there as anywhere else in Caiaro. I shall certainly return to study the area in more depth.
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Its the most enormous cemetary you have ever seen. Its famous because people have made their homes living between and sometimes even in the tombs. Charlie
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Shangrila - There really is one and it is fascinating. Put it on your 'must visit in Cairo' list. Mind you if annie goes there and is true to form then it is bound to be eventful and it would be interesting to know which of its 'internees' jumps on her bones and ravishes her.
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Will have to put that on my to do list for this year LL sounds very interesting.
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It is something to be seen. I dont think there is anything quiet like it anywhere in the world. Charlie
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