For our final day of sightseeing in Cairo we decided to brave the taxi services. So we researched the price of a fare to the citadel on the internet and the hotel desk and decided our top price was 30 Egyptian pounds. You could have blown us over with a feather when the first taxi driver we spoke to offered a fare of 20 pounds. Mind you it cost 40 pounds to get a fare from the Citadel to the Islamic area (about a quarter the distance we travelled to get there). The taxi driver negotiated a climb up a minaret at mosque that is not open to the public as part of the fare so it ended up being good value at $11.69 Aussie dollars for the two fares.
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After the minaret climb we wandered through a local bazaar where all manner of local produce was on sale including live rabbits, fish, sheep, chooks and pigeons. This was good to see as we ate grilled pigeons for dinner last night. At the citadel we were a big hit with the local children who there for school excursions. They lined up to take our photos.
2 comments:
Going well you two must have Ned Kelly genes though!!! will check the "tree" take care but have fun too, will forward on to Moe.
Thanks Yvonne, It would be good to find some interesting characters in the tree.
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