Cairo is amazing. It is dirty and overcrowded but I love it. I got here several days before the American University in Cairo's dorms open, so Julia and I stayed in a hostel near Downtown. The first night we went for a walk and were overwhelmed by the traffic and all the people.
So far I have been to Old Cairo and al-Azhar Mosque. Founded in 975, Al-Azhar is the seat of Sunni ideology in the world. When Napoleon wanted to subdue Egypt, he led a bayonet charge into the mosque. I also visited Salah al-Din's Citadel in Cairo. This is where he defended the city from the the Crusaders in the 12th century.
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