With most of the day still to kill before the evening wedding party, guide & taxi driver Suliman suggested a visit to the Cave Church, in the Coptic Christian area quite close to the Cairo Citadel, where the Mohamed Ali mosque hade been earlier explored.

As the car entered the Coptic Manshiet Nasr area, Suliman, ominously, informed his passengers not to be afraid in the area in which they were about to enter, as he knew the area well, and knew exactly how to get to the church. Some taxi drivers do not, he added!

Silence in the taxi.

What unfolded over the next 10 to 15 minutes was unexpected, to say the least.