Tea in the City of the Dead, Cairo, Egypt

 

Happy Halloween weekend! I took these photos in Cairo's "City of the Dead." The City of the Dead is a four-mile grid of tombs and mausoleums where people live and work among their ancestors. These two men, who were drinking tea and visiting with each other when I met them, are the caretakers of one of the largest sections of tombs. I sat and had a cup of sweet Egyptian tea with them as they told me about the history of the City of the Dead. In this photo, I especially love their decorated bike, which is holding broomsticks and other tools used to clean the tombs and walkways. I'm not really sure why the man in white is emanating a halo, but I did not edit it.