European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse City on the Nile a sight and sound show lights up the Sphinx As the great pyramids of Giza serve As a backdrop. Africa continued from Page 9 Market is located in Southern Cairo and is Only open fridays. Beggars sit at the Entrance of the Market and try to get entry fees from tourists but there s no charge to enter. The ground is lined with animal dung and Bright red pools and lines of animal blood so it won t matter if you watch your step. Visitors can see first hand How animals Are slaughtered and skinned. Their meat is used for food and the hide for leather. The people at the Camel Market Are Friendly. Quot it s easy to make Contact with people in a casual Way at the Camel Market Quot said Susanne Schiemenz a German student at american University in Cairo. Quot they want to talk to the City of the dead located on the Eastern outskirts of Cairo gets its name because the 2-Square-mile area is a cemetery. There Are no tombstones in this cemetery but Well built Stone houses with tombs in regimented rows. But what makes this City fascinating is the people who live in the tombs. You won t get to see this on most Tours so you la need to hire a taxi to get and shootings leave tourists unshaken the Pyramid of Khz Fra looms Over the Dale Mcgeehon United press International apparently undeterred by either natural or Man made disasters tourists Are still going to Egypt. Relatively few visitors a whether they be cautious Carefree or downright courageous a have cancelled their vacation plans since the oct. 12 earthquake and recent armed attacks by islamic fundamentalists according to travel agencies and hotels. Damage from the quake occurred mostly in the City s poorer areas where it collapsed tenement buildings and in schools where it caused panic and stampedes. Some 560 people were killed 10,000 injured and thousands were left homeless. Quot we did t have any cancellations after the earthquake Quot said Colin Pulley director of marketing at Cairo s Marriott hotel. Quot initially there was caution until the full facts were known. The results were that it did t physically affect hotels downtown nor the travel on oct. 2, fundamentalists fired bullets into a German chartered Nile Cruiser in Southern Egypt injuring three members of its egyptian Crew. On oct. 21, another attack by extremists on a tourist minibus in the fundamentalist hotbed of Airout killed a British woman and injured two British men. Despite those events Quot it s As Busy As it s expected to be Quot during the Peak of the tourist season Pulley said. Quot we re sold out All the Way like the hotels miss travel one of the largest tourist agencies in Egypt also reported few cancellations. Only a Quot very few people have dropped their plans since the incidents said Nashua Camealy one of the Agency s general managers. Although they heard the news about the earthquake and the attacks most tourists decided to come anyway albeit cautiously. Michele Auchter of Reading pa., who arrived in Cairo in october with her sister and father watched american television to keep herself informed about the effects of the earthquake. Auchter sought word from the . Embassy in Cairo and was told that it was considered Safe to visit. Government buildings and tourist Sites received Little damage in the quake. Although she was not planning to go to Southern Egypt she said she would have gone on a Nile cruise near the area where the British woman was killed if she had been with a Large group. As a matter of fact news of attacks on foreign visitors gave some travellers such As Anil mistry of Manchester England an added sense of adventure. Mistry said he had planned to visit Luxor by boat for three Days after he completed a four Day trip in Cairo. When he heard that a fellow British citizen had been filled and that he would go through the same area where the attack took place Quot i thought it a quite exciting actually Quot he said. I thought i d see some bedlam around Cairo but it was perfectly Normal Quot he said sounding a Little surprised and even a bit disappointed. Tourism is the biggest foreign currency earner for a c als estimate that tourists will bring about $4 billion to the country this year a $1 billion increase Over last year fiscal year which ended june 30
