Secrets of 600 in Khan Khalili Despite the passage of 600 in the creation of the Khan Khalili in Egypt but the architecture is still speaks of history since the Mamluk era, and you feel it moving witchcraft and mystery envelope surprised Due to perfection. «Khan Khalili» is smuggled favorite thousands from all over the next two and lower Egypt to attend the Cairo s if we take time to back often will preamble of the Arab famous «El», which says that the Khan takes a large square building and destroying resembles Agency include ground floor shops, which includes the upper layers stores and homes and called by that name in relation to the institution of Baneh Sharif «Khalili» a large traders in the era of Sultan plum in 1400.
If the trip started with me in the Khan al-Hussein Mosque, one hand you will find a cafe «Crown blessings» by him since there were two hundred of wooden plate painted red nails black large installed written above (Khan El Khalili). Before beginning the tour in the old neighborhood, we must learn that there is what is the most enjoyable of roaming on foot inside the alleys and discussion of the need to be lifting Algazha Valazgah monolithic Khbat held stone and earth floors monolithic black workers and the market-roofed timber challenge of time and erosion, sneak it Many shops are filled with some galleries and antiques rare treasures and skillfully made. Each time during the tour in the old Khan has tried to discover architectural philosophy should fall eyes of the remaining Mcherbyat onto the street or warm and Asplh pretty busy and copper tiles and basins where water was thirsty and Troy Passerby time that he was. In the past, foreign tourists and the Arabs buying gold and silver and copper, which form the distinctive reputation in the Egyptian heritage and now it has increased the water pipe (bubble), which became one of the most famous products Khan Khalili and password through the narrow alleys of Central crowdedness of legendary people, places wood stacking owners of the cafes during Ajtmabk even relive probed comfort cubicle which some drinks with Eastern water pipe Sttnahi to hearing words of welcome Egyptian amusing and offer you a vendor of various types including rosaries sowing olive tiles, plastics, called «Nur morning» and some belong to a platoon turquoise, coral and Amber, which is made from the wood Sandalwood The most famous is presented to women who contract it hanging from «appointed Horus
Inspired «Khan Khalili» is one of thirty-eight market days Mamelukes were distributed on the main Cairo and is located exactly Khan old city center over the graves Righteous Decorative previously. The goats of religion God has evoked him Kairouan three of his predecessors coffins and buried in the cemetery where burial is also his successors Khalili has ordered the transfer of graves elsewhere and the establishment of market traders. And the manner in which the goods are displayed in Old Cairo and persist even now through adjacent markets and shops that fill Alleyways and offering the same goods at varying rates and the like always ongoing exhibition of various goods which offers an opportunity for buyers to select and choose what it wants to get the better of each type and color of gold, diamonds and silver to the papyrus bearing the words shape and Amulets and icons, even the most beautiful poems spinning the story of love between PHARAONIC «Isis and the Azores», which demanded by foreign tourists.
During the tour attracts your overlapping colors and inscriptions in clothing stacking shopkeepers kind of supply and temptation and its works of art rarely exist to remember days Cairo was a great trade center in the Middle Ages bring goods Far East and send in various routes in the Mediterranean, this is the golden age of trade spices with the country of India and Sindh in the sixteenth century transferred to the Khan Khalili market strangest in the history of Old Cairo and modern slave market, which is known reputation in the East and the West and described as a traveller of the most important markets confused all nationalities. But if you want to meet rebels youth in his twenties and thirties especially the youth Azhari you visited Cafe «Al-Fishawi», which reflects the genius of the place and it brings together the rebels to measure their movements Revolutionary Army against British occupation of Egypt green tea drinkers who are infamous for this coffee shop, and later added a game «domino».
The «Al-Fishawi» when the Second World War cache collective lovers ensure Now, after years, which exceeded the 200 and was a meeting place of kings and presidents that were leaders including «Eugene» Empress of France during her visit Kedive Ismail to mark the opening of the Suez Canal and is now a meeting place for thinkers, intellectuals, the most prominent of the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Again continue to stroll in the Khan amid Hawwanith full of other collections and sell precious stones that had a particular market Balmosqui but now settled in the Khan Khalili because of the different customer says traders shopkeepers and shops in the Khan. During the tour picks up scent attracts beautiful swim in the air in the direction of Khan Street basis where much trade perfumes Arab, Asian and European countries such as amber and Jasmine, Jasmine hundreds of bottles of shapes and colors and Western containing Attora unfamiliar colors differ between oil shale in color crude oil and golden yellow and violet mixed hot and called b «Alasans», which are manufactured perfumes global him in the words of one traders who adds that this is the actual Turkbih perfume without adding alcohol. The incense has its own kingdom in the Khan are imported from Sudan and incense lute imports from Saudi Arabia believes that people smoke Almcetkh prevent eye and coriander were either envy is the leader of the Kingdom of incense and called the name of the people (and jaw Alvkok) any smell that goes by the contract Blardjah.
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