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Pyramids, Camels, and a Bizarre Bazaar
... not something I would care to do more than once in a decade or so. The last stop we made was at the Papyrus Institute, where they still make papyrus. They showed us a demonstration of how they cut the papyrus into strips, weave it together ...
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Cairo's Antiquities 102
Next on our jam-packed itinerary was the papyrus institute. Inside, a man showed us how to make genuine papyrus sheets and then invited us to purchase papyrus with Egyptian paintings on them. The basic process is this: you take the plant and cut off the ...
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Cairo, Giza and the train to Luxor
... you see! I bumped into Wallid here (guide from my first day!) small world. After the sphinx we were taken to a papyrus institute. As I had been previously stung I wasn't in the market for buying papyrus, even if it was guaranteed by the government to ...
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Cairo & Giza, Egypt
... guy in the band was especially good at belly-dancing, it was quite entertaining. In the afternoon we headed to the Papyrus Institute which afforded a convenient place to buy souvenirs. There a young lady demonstrated making paper from Papyrus reed, found ...
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Day 3
... their pounds by 5.5 to get the US dollar cost. A bottle of water was also $1. We then left and went to the Papyrus Institute, where they did a demonstration of how the paper is made (cut the plant into strips, let it soak for 6 days, put it ...
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Alexandria and Cairo
... ; We do VERY HIGHLY recommend them. The plans were to go to the National Museum, lunch, Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Papyrus Institute, hotel, Light Show, hotel, pass out, breakfast, Saqqara, Giza and back to Alexandria. These were the plans ...
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Cairo
... pyramid is smaller than the other two and it was build by King ....... On our way to Lunch, Randa took us to the Papyrus Institute where we get to learn how paper was made from the papyrus (it is cut into pieces, left in water for ...
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Egypt, April and May 2008
... and wool are made by children who also attend school on the grounds. Rugs are beautiful and pricey. We left for Cairo at 5:10 pm then went to the Papyrus Institute at 5:50 pm. Islam showed us how papyrus is made. It's a time consuming process. Then we ...
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Tour Of The Giza Pyramids, Saqqara & Memphis
... over the years using the face as target practice or blowing it up to look for treasure. Next we were off to the "Papyrus Institute" which was basically a shop, but through reading other people’s blogs, I wasn’t too surprised by this. ...
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Comparing Cairo, Egypt to Lagos, *****ia
... Highlights for the visit by Goge Africa Tours were: the Giza Pyramids, the Sphinx and Sakkara Pyramids in Memphis, the Egyptian Museum, the Papyrus Institute, Old Cairo and Khan El Khalil market, Coptic Cairo – the Citadel and the Pharonic ...
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- Bab al-Azab
- Souk al Fustat
- Abu Sir Pyramids
- Ramses Statue
- Perfume Factory
- Ahmed Shawki Museum (Karmat Ibn Hani')
- Gayer-Anderson Museum (Bayt al-Kiritliya)
- Wadi Degla
- Kefre, the second pyramid
- St. Mercurius Church (Abu Seifien)
- Museum of Islamic Arts
- Zamalek (Gezira Island)
- Al-Azhar Park
- Khalil Museum
- Midan Hussein
- Colossus of Ramses II
- Old Cairo
- Egyptian Antiquities Museum
- El Muayyad Mosque
- Qa'a of Muhhib Al-Din (Uthman Kathkhuda)