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Thursday 9 December 2010

Carnival Khan al-Khalili

Carnival visitors and visitors to the neighborhood of Khan al-Khalili interfere with clothes and lace stacked shopkeepers as a kind of supply and temptation and attraction on the front of the shops, hanging hundreds and possibly thousands (swimming pools) within Fterinat display, or in the hands of young boys offering various types of pools, each made of sowing olive and plastic (and referred to the morning light), and others belonged to the family of turquoise and coral, amber and convenience, including Maisna of sandalwood, and say a rosary artisans that make the machine a small handheld and accurate name (Lathe).In the Khan al-Khalili is keen women of all nationalities to buy (the contract), which hang from it (the Eye of Horus), and make contracts of ores of various, and the customer only determine the application in accordance with its potential financial, and here come to a seller (a masterpiece) probably had to manufacture hundreds of years, the day that Cairo was in the Middle Ages a great commercial center, the Far East to bring goods and send them in various shipping routes in the Mediterranean Sea. That was in the golden age of the spice trade with India and Sindh and the country ride the elephants and buy men, in the sixteenth century moved to the Khan al-Khalili strangest market in the history of Cairo, ancient and modern, a market (slaves), who shot to fame in the East and West, describing travelers as one of the most important markets mixed up by all nationalities.We have ended that era all Mafany of the features of a great or wrinkles collapse, and we are now in new and different era, the consideration of the tourists and visitors to the goods scattered in the quarters, Alvatrinat on it (gift) from Cairo Muizz Fatimid, and in small shops adjacent creativity merchants in the compaction gold, silver and copper. The scene reminds you of these stores are called Turkey, which markets (Bazaar), which occupies the streets under a huge city (Istanbul), extending the streets of the entire specialize in one type of goods. That the most important consideration in Melvt Craft Khan al-Khalili is the accuracy of handicrafts, there are shops featuring a necklace or bracelet by engravings and miniatures spent in the maker inscribed Maher days or even months. And gold is gold no matter how over time or have changed the homelands, and foreign tourists are keen to buy silver jewelry, but Arab tourists like gold, has crawled from street shops to the famous jewelers in search of Khan al-Khalili (customer) a high-taste, it is estimated that between his hands from the precious