Hammams
A totally different experience is available at traditional hammams (bathhouses), whose nondescript facades conceal gloomy warrens of sweatrooms and tubs. Some baths serve men in the morning and women in the afternoon; others assign them separate days, or only admit one sex. With no mixed bathing, Egyptian women can ignore taboos and talk frankly; foreigners may be adopted into their circle, which usually includes children being scrubbed. For men, baths are something of a centre for gay prostitution, and have been since Ottoman times, so many avoid them for that reason, although you can generally go there just for a bathe without being hassled. Egyptians pay GBPE3-5, but foreigners are likely to be charged GBPE10. Ask around Islamic Cairo . The oldest, dating from 1261, is the Hammam al-Sultan, four doors north of Barquq's complex on Sharia al-Muizz (daily 10am-6pm). Nearer to the Northern Walls are the eighteenth-century Hammam al-Malatyah (on Sharia Amir al-Gyushi) and the harder-to-find Hammam al-Tanbali (near the El-Geish end of Bayn al-Haret, 1km east of Ramses). Around the Bab Zwayla are the As-Sukayna and Al-Muayyad baths - both Mamluke - and the rather grubby Ottoman Hammam al-Sukkariyya. A medieval facade halfway down Sharia es-Silah screens the modernized Hammam Bashtak (daily: women noon-5pm; men 7-10pm; Ramadan men only). For a cleaner, more expensive and less traditional venue, around GBPE25 buys a sauna at the El-Gezirah Sheraton, a saun a and Turkish bath at the Nile Hilton, or both plus Jacuzzi at the Ramses Hilton.
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