Tahrir Square

Today we had a sleep in, then met for coffee and went out for a local dish koshary which was delicious! We all devoured it and then had rice pudding, which was supposed to help settle the stomach.

We then headed to the Civilisation Museum where we got to see all the mummies. It was so interesting to see and learn how they preserved them. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take any pictures. Some of the mummies still have hair, finger nails and teeth. Most of the mummies we saw were found in the same place and were all related.

We met Christina’s family at the museum - two aunts and a cousin and they took us to the Coptic area to show us some churches. We only had half an hour to view them as they closed at 4pm so it was a fairly quick visit.

We then decided we wanted to see the cave church and caught three Ubers. Unfortunately, our Uber driver was terrible and took forever to pick us up — we waited 30 minutes for him when he was just around the corner and then when he finally picked us up he kept missing turns. Eventually we asked him to pull over and we got out and had to pay him more then what Christina’s cousin told us to. We were stranded at a petrol station on the edge of some neighbourhood watching tuk tuks do burn outs. We ordered another Uber and the driver was so much better. We decided it was way too late to meet the others at the cave church and headed to one of Christina’s family’s cafes on the Nile. We made it first and decided to get some well deserved drinks before heading over after the big mess around with the Uber driver. We were right on the Nile and ended up staying for a lot longer than planned and watched the sunset. It was so nice to relax on the Nile.

We made our way to Christina’s cousins cafe and ordered some food. Little did we know that what we thought was a mushroom burger and mushroom piccata turned out to be meat dishes with mushrooms in them. Lucky the table had plenty of vegetables and rice and everyone ended up sharing their meals. It was a lovely night. We headed home early as we had a tour booked for 7am the next morning.Read more