Good morning, guys.
Today I'm going to be exploring a little bit of Cairo!
Cairo traffic is insane, and people are always running across the road!
Stopped into a little juice shop.
This is my new friend, by the way.
I found this avenue somewhere in Cairo that is just full of books!
Just come down these stairs into kind of this stone tunnel, and it's inside the church.
The church has been built on top of it.
Supposedly where Jesus actually lived for a year, when he was a child.
There was first the Pharaohs and their religion of Ancient Egyptian religion,
and then there was Greek, and then Roman,
and then actually, Egypt was the site of early Christianity.
So it was actually Christian before it was Muslim.
There are still churches in Egypt, and they are very well respected and cared for.
Some Roman ruins here, just walking along.
Walking through kind of the courtyard of another church right now.
Heading up to Saladin's Fort right now.
He was a great Muslim king who fought against Richard III during the Crusades,
the son of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
This fort is huge!
So it's there... goes all the way over there.
Look at this behind me!
So beautiful.
Apparently all of the alabaster stone that was used to build it
was actually taken from the Pyramids.
Which is pretty sad, I think.
They should've left it there.
Now here in the Alabaster Mosque.
It is SO beautiful.
I don't think that I can really show you even how it looks,
because it's just all around you, like that.
You have to take off your shoes to walk inside, and the floor is just so smooth and white.
It's a very pure feeling in here, very peaceful.
In 1845, Egypt actually gave France an obelisk, which is now in Paris, I've actually seen it.
And in return, France gave them this clock.
But, the clock only worked for 5 minutes, and that's it.
And they're still trying to fix it and figure out how to restore it,
but since 1845 it has never worked.
Think we're going to go inside... *gasp* Oh my gosh!
It looks like a fairytale in here!
Let me show you.
This is just like pure magic in here.
I don't think I've ever been in a place like this before.
Oh my gosh...
Here outside the mosque, this is a view of all of Cairo!
Leaving now, but oh my gosh, that was amazing!
Inside the mosque was just absolutely magical, this view with the sunset...
Awesome place.
Favorite place in Cairo so far that I've seen.
I have just been in a bunch of churches, a synagogue, a mosque.
Something that is really cool here and that I don't think people really talk about is
that Egypt is very very accepting of all of the religions.
So you'll see synagogues, churches, mosques all together.
And everyone is very accepting of the other's religion.
They live completely in peace side by side.
The Egyptian guy that is kind of showing us around today was telling us that
in his town, once the Christian church was destroyed.
Closed off half of the mosque and they divided it down the middle,
and they let the Christians come and pray in their mosque
just as a kind thing to do while they're fixing their church.
Because they think that everyone should have the right to pray.
And yeah, they just kind of live in peace together
and there's not any sort of animosity between them,
which I think is amazing.
And they're just very accepting, which is how it should be.
So, that was great to hear.
Now on Al'Muais Street (spelling?)
Very busy, lots going on.
Headed to the market right now.
So full of life here, I love it!
It's a bit crazy, and I think I've almost been run over about five times already.
But it's - it's awesome.
Crazy in an awesome way.
There are a ton of mosques in this area, so right here is another one.
It is over a thousand years old.
This by the way is Sabri, he has been showing us around Cairo today.
It's like a never-ending maze of just... color, and beautiful things, basically.
Don't know what this is.
- It looks like coffee, but it's not coffee!
It has like, an aftertaste.
It sticks in your throat.
- What is it?
What is it, Sabri?
- This is a...
?? Like, hibiscus flower.
- Hibiscus flower juice?
Do you like it?
- Ah ah.
Sailing on the Nile right now!
What do you think of this, Annah?
- I think that this is pretty awesome.
Cairo from the Nile.
So guys, those were my adventures around Cairo today, hope that you enjoyed.
As for why I decided to call this video "A Cairo Fairytale,"
I just kind of wasn't expecting the feeling that I got from Cairo to be...
sort of... magical!
And I knew it was going to be crazy and busy and crowded,
and that's kind of what I was expecting, more than the beautiful kind of craziness of it,
if that makes any sense.
And then also, just about how the mosques and the churches and synagogue all exist together
in just this small area, and everyone is so lovely and accepting, and that's just...
should definitely be practiced more in the world.
So yeah, I just - that's the feeling that I got from Cairo.
As always, I have more videos in Egypt, SO many more, coming up.
Thanks for watching.
Bye!