Khan El Khalili

Description

The main street, al Badestan, is now mostly devoted to souvenirs, but for more interesting buys stroll into the smarter alleys to find out where the locals shop. A good place for lunch or a snack is the Naguib Mahfouz Café-Restaurant on al Badestan. The gold market around Sharia al Muizz li Din Allah is big and busy, as the amoun of gold given by a groom to his bride is still an important part of the marriage contrat.
 

Khan Al-Khalili

The spice and perfume bazaar in an alley to the side of the Barsbay mosque, on Sharia al Muizz li Din Allah, still has an authentic medieval atmosphere. It is the best place in Cairo to get a souvenir, million kind of handmade products like vases, sphenix, papyrus paper, pyramids, pearl boxes status, herbals and spices, handemade jewllery and you can buy also Galabeya (the traditional Egyptain castume )

Write your name on the Egyptian cartouche in hieroglyphic in gold, silver, t-shirts, colored papyrus, hand blown glass bayrex, porcelain plates and cups, cooper vases or status.

Beet el henna, near to el hussien mosque, is an important unknown place in the khan, many amazing Egyptian, oriental and southern paintings you can draw on your skin and it is not expensive.