Sunday, October 22, 2023 (continued)
Our included shore excursion continued with a stop at the Aswan suq/market with spices and herbs as a specialty.
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| Mounded baskets full of spices and herbs ... |
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| ... and who knows what else! |
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Dried hibiscus flowers used as a tea is
said to lower blood pressure |
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| One of many spice shops |
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Our group was seated in one shop to be shown some
of the wares and what health problem they helped;
also some blends of spices for cooking certain meats |
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Drawers contained salt rocks?, dried dates,
and doum palm fruit |
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Bins with (top) I don't know, scallop shells, and cypress cones;
(bottom) nut grass tubers, salt rocks?, raw desert dates for oil |
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| Groundnuts/peanuts and I don't know |
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| Turmeric, cypress cones, dried cornflowers |
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| Dried cornflowers, cuttlebones, bark? |
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| Cinnamon |
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| Drawers full of ground spices |
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| Tamarind tea ball and doum palm fruit |
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| Pine cones and peeled cassava |
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Top: white pumice and Maryam booti;
Bottom: dried lack limes? and dried Persian lemons/limes |
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| Coral |
Free time for the rest of the market!
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| Kitchenware |
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| Rugs |
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| Household goods |
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| The main street of the market was under pergolas |
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| Shoes |
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| Dolls |
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| Tea house |
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| Soft drinks, fruit, and sugar cane |
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| Public water dispenser |
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| Vendor sorting his produce |
Next: Sail on a Felucca.
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