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Time for one last look at Cairo before we head south to Aswan:

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The problem with traveling through the bazaars along the pedestrian streets of Cairo is that you eventually run out of pedestrian streets in Cairo. That dumps you onto a frenzied world of motorized mayhem in which the First Rule of the Road is that there are No Rules of the Road.

Question: What defect totals a car in Cairo?

Answer: An inoperable horn.

As you depart the cloth souk and angle to the left to the south southeast, you’ll know your time… and luck… have run out. When you reach the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan, it’s time to head back to the hotel, which means you have to find a ride. In that traffic. Cairo traffic!

Think I’m exaggerating? Well, okay, then. Turn up your speakers and go full-screen on our Tuk-Tuk Transit of Total Terror, which follows is toward the end after some footage of other Cairo tooting traffic and terrified pedestrians:

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Today I’m going to continue with something I began last Wednesday, a look at the sights in the Khayamiya Tentmakers Souk (Bazaar), otherwise known as the Khayamiya Cloth Souk. The location is within easy walking distance of the previously covered Khan el-Khalili Souk (Bazaar) and is just south of the southernmost gate in the wall surrounding Historic Cairo, the Bab Zuwayla:

As you head south from the Bab Zuwayla gate, you’ll encounter a covered area heading into the Khayamiya Cloth Souk:

That cover area only lasts about 80 meters/260 feet before you once again find yourself outdoors and back onto the streets:

Make sure you look skyward, lest you miss views such as these:

These photos were taken on 25 February of this year, so decorations were going up in preparation of Ramadan, which began on 1 March. So that explains the pennants you see hanging over the souk in this photo:

As well as the traditional Egyptian Ramadan delicacy of duck:

Get ready for our harrowing Tuk-Tuk Transit of Total Terror on Wednesday. Until then.

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