We arrived at Cairo airport at around 11 in the morning. After immigration checks, we boarded the cab that we had pre booked through Nubian hostel in which we stayed in Cairo. It costed us 70 EGP for airport pickup. On the first day, we just went to the most famous market in Cairo, Khan-el-Khalili in the evening. We went by taxi by paying around 15 EGP.(ofcourse after bargaining)We just roamed about the market to the shouts "Hey India", "Amitabh Bacchan", "Sonia gandhi is inside my shop, come see her" etc, by the local shop keepers. I did not buy anything on that day and just took stock of the items available that is worth buying. We had anyway planned to visit the market once again for the actual purchase. I should say that most of the items that are available in those markets are available in India too except for few things that are unique to Egypt which I will cover in Shopping section.
We were back at the hotel in the night. We booked for the pyramids trip for the next day through our hotel manager. Our first day ended with an anxiuos wait to visit the Great Pyramids the next day.
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