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There are many businesses in Cairo that seek to please the tourist. Cairo is the center of the Egyptian Perfume business which sells perfume oils to the French Perfume industry.  It is only natural that almost any place in the city you can be enticed into a "perfume palace" for mint tea, a presentation of local copies of famous fragrances and some haggling over sales of perfume bottles or bottles of perfume oils.  

Many of the artifacts found in graves were related to perfume oils. See More... 

But, the enterprising Egyptians have developed all sorts of tourist products and experiences, some of the ones we encountered were:

-- The Golden Palace perfume shop, selling perfume bottles and essence oils.
-- Souvenir shops selling books, t-shirts, galabeyas, replicas of antiques, fake scarabs, gold or silver cartouches with your name inside, and anything else the tourist might want.
-- Rug shops that sell camel hair rugs.
-- Shops that demonstrate papyrus making and that sell papyrus with hand painted scenes from the tombs.
-- Street sellers selling jewelry, post cards, papyrus with tomb scenes, fragrant necklaces of flowers, replicas of antiques, head clothes.
-- Night clubs that have belly dancers.
-- Sound and Light shows at the pyramids (and also at Karnak in Luxor).
-- Ragab's Pharaonic Village which explained the gods and some of the ancient Egyptian way of life, and also had a replica of a temple on a small scale (with a soon to be constructed gift shop in the shape of a pyramid).
-- Twilight boat trips with dinner, on the Nile.
-- Sailing on the Nile in a Felucca.
-- The Kahn al-Khalili market with its canvas bags (great bargain, near the Bab al-Futuh) , patchwork cushions and wall hangings, brass works, and real antiquities.
-- Hundreds of mosques, museums and Egyptian and Roman antiquity sites.

If you can't find something interesting to do in Cairo, you are "tired of life" as Dr. Samuel Johnson said of people who were bored in London.

Click the thumbnail photos below to see full-sized pictures of some of the tourist things we did in Cairo. The papyrus scenes are typical of those available almost everywhere in Cairo.

 
 
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Ken seated in the Golden Palace of Perfumes   The Golden Palace is a perfume shop in Giza. It is owned by Adel M. El Gabry who is a friend of a friend, and who showed us great hospitality.

His shop is decorated in beautiful silks, colorful wall hangings, and lovely hand carved furniture.

There are hundreds of perfume shops in Cairo, as Egypt is a major source of perfume oils for the Parisian market. It is an industry as old as the Pyramids and spending a afternoon in the cool rooms with a cup of tea, sampling perfumes is one of the pleasures of Cairo.

The oils can be shipped to you, or sealed in bottles for you to carry with you.

 
 
 
 
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Riding on camels in the desert, pyramids behind us.   There are camel rides available near the Pyramids at Giza. We went early in the morning. It was cool and the desert breeze was blowing.
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Papyrus bookmark, hand colored, men herding cattle, from tomb 		reliefs.

 
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Guide stands in front of replica temple at Ragab's Pharaonic Village   Ragab's Pharaonic Village is a "theme" park. Guests travel by statues of Egyptian gods in floating stadium seats. Explanations of the gods are given via a recorded presentation, therefore you must group together according to language. Also along the canals are human dioramas of Egyptian life. The players act out perfume making, papyrus making, harvesting grains and making mud bricks. The trip ends at a brightly painted replica of a temple. A guide explains the various functions of the traditional courts of the temples. Click on the picture to see a full screen version.
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Classic image of Goddess Nut spanning the sky. Papyrus bookmark,copied 		from releifs of tombs and hand colored

 
 
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Camel's head in decorative harness.   Around the Pyramids, there are many locals dressed in traditional garb with camels or horses decorated is colorful style. These men earn their living posing for pictures, and will agree to pose for a fee. When we first went to the Pyramids we took a picture of one of these men through our car window and were promptly tracked down with demands for baksheesh. Our driver calmed him down and sent him away but explained to us that it was his business to pose for photos, and we should expect to pay. That seemed fair. The next day we took a wonderful video of a man and his camels. Daisy and Canasta.
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