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At 6:00 PM November 22, 1997
Sunrise (local): 6:21 a.m. Sunset (local): 4:59 p.m.	Weather 75°F
Traveled Since Yesterday 0 m / 0 km Cumulative 1163 mi / 1873 km	Lat: 30° 02' 29" N Lon: 31° 13' 19" E Elev: 220 ft / 67 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Cairo
Where We're Staying: Bodmin Guest House
Places We Visited: Islamic Cairo's Mosque of Sultan Hussan, Ar-Rifa'I Mosque, Ibn Tulun Mosque, Citadel, and Mosque of Mohammed Ali
Featured Site: Islamic Cairo
Person of the Day: Prophet Mohammed
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: Egyptian pancakes; Breakfast: leftover pastries; Lunch: kushari; Dinner: Egyptian pancakes; Olive Count: 1126
Word of the Day: Ana faehem (for a man) and ana faeha (for a woman) mean "I understand" in Egyptian Arabic.
Tech Fact of the Day: There are estimated to be between 750 million and one billion Muslims (followers of Islam) in the world, mostly divided divided amongst about 30 countries.: Flat Count (Cumulative): 3; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 17


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