This is called gazeerat el moaz -- Banana island. It's just an island in Luxor with a huge banana forest. Before coming to Egypt, I would never have thought of it as a fruit filled place, but it's pretty fruity...
In Egypt, fruits are very seasonal. We were drinking guava juice for a month and a half at the dorm during dinner and last week, all of a sudden, there was no more juice. It's no longer guava season. Now, it's orange season. Every juice place in Alexandria is now packed with oranges.
Orange juice is pretty weak sauce from the grocery stores, but now, I can buy a huge glass of fresh squeezed orange juice every morning for only 2 Egyptian pounds. I even watch the guy put the six oranges into the manual juicing machine. The fresh squeezed orange juice is amazing.
The fruit is a little weird though. The oranges are usually green, but they're still called oranges here. And the bananas are smaller.
