Islamic Cairo

So, the last couple of days have been spent exploring the mosques and historic buildings is Islamic Cairo. The buildings are pretty insane and make the cathedrals and castles I've been to in Europe look:
A: new
and
B: small.

We've also gotten to see what some of the street life and scene is like here. Compared to Bangladesh there are many more tourists here (which is expected) but the street life has the same wild feel to it.

Here is a pictorial of the last 2 days:

These places are really big. How big you ask?...

I mean really big!!! That is Helen standing in the Sultan Hassan Mosque. These are buildings for Giants.

This kid was on a one speed cruiser bike with about 100 loaves of loosely stacked bread on his head doing one handed track stands in the middle of Islamic Cairo (bumpy, buisy streets). Damn.

Helen and I strutting our stuff. You have to take your shoes off or get these little shoe covers put on your feet when you go into a mosque.

Booyah!

This is something called the Nileometer. It was used for measuring the water level of the Nile - which was in turn used for adjusting the taxes. M.C. Escher anyone?

Big walls. This is Ibn Tulun Mosque. The oldest in Cairo.

Minarets and satellite dishes. Old meets new.

Mr. Horse taking a break. In Islamic Cairo there is still a fair amount of horse and cart traffic.