Cairo & Giza — Sights
Where the pyramids pop up in your taxi window.
- Giza Pyramids Plateau — Three 4,500-year-old stone mountains, and a crawl up inside the biggest
- Great Sphinx of Giza — A lion's body, a king's face, and pyramids stacked behind it
- Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) — Over 5,000 Tutankhamun objects shown together for the first time
- Egyptian Museum, Tahrir — A 120-year-old pink building still crammed with antiquities
- Saqqara Step Pyramid & Memphis — Where pyramids began: the Step Pyramid and an empty desert
- Dahshur: Bent & Red Pyramids — A pyramid that changes angle halfway up, and hardly anyone around
- Khan el-Khalili Bazaar — A 600-year-old souk of lamplight and haggling
- Al-Muizz Street — A 1 km pedestrian street of thousand-year-old mosques and madrasas
- Citadel of Saladin & Muhammad Ali Mosque — A silver-domed mosque on a hill above the whole city
- Coptic Cairo & the Hanging Church — A church perched on a Roman gate, in lanes of Holy Family legend
- Al-Azhar Mosque & Al-Azhar Park — A thousand-year-old mosque-university, and minaret sunsets from a hilltop park
- National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) — Some twenty pharaohs lie in a dim underground hall
- Nile Felucca Sunset Sail — An hour under sail, no engine, as the sun sets on the Nile
- Cairo Tower — Cairo in 360 degrees from the top of a lotus-shaped tower
- Alexandria Day Trip — Mediterranean breeze, a fort on the lighthouse site, and the new great library
- Mosque of Ibn Tulun — 9th-century courtyard, Cairo's oldest intact mosque
- Gayer-Anderson Museum — Two 17th-century houses, packed with antiques and hidden rooms
- Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan — A Mamluk portal that makes you crane your neck
- Bayt Al-Suhaymi — An Ottoman merchant house with cool courtyards and a rooftop
- Museum of Islamic Art — Lamps, ceramics and carved wood in a world-class collection
- Baron Empain Palace — A Hindu-temple-style mansion in the middle of Cairo
- Manial Palace Museum — Ottoman, Persian and Moorish styles in one garden
- Bab Zuweila — Climb a medieval gate's minarets over the old quarter
- Al-Tannoura Show at Wekalet El-Ghouri — Whirling skirts in an old caravanserai courtyard