OTHER FUN THINGS TO DO IN CAIRO -

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• Dinner cruise on the Nile River

• Trip to authentic perfume shop, papyrus shop, alabaster factory, and/or jewelry store

• See your name as a hieroglyph embroidered on a T-shirt or other fabric

• See how carpets have been made since antiquity

• Play a round of golf on a championship course

• Visit Old Cairo and the Hanging Church

• Explore the King Tut treasures at the Egyptian Museum

• Buy souvenirs at Hyper One (Egypt's answer to Wal-Mart) or an upscale shopping mall

• Enjoy high tea and pastries at historic Mena House

• Smoke apple tobacco in an authentic hookah pipe

• Foods to try: Egyptian rice pudding, koshary, halawa, sahlab, fu'ul, fresh fish, and "old cheese pizza"

• Visit the museum of Egyptian opera star Ms. Umm Kulthum & nearby Nile-o-meter

• Mohammed Ali Mosque & Citadel

• Ride a camel