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Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Cairo's oldest café, open without interruption since the late 18th century.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
Not an address but a habit: chairs out on the square, a tea, a shisha, at any hour.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
The ahwa of students, poets and insomniacs, in an alley behind Talaat Harb.
CairoDowntown
A vast room with bare walls where tea and beer have been served at the same tables for decades.
CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown
Two pedestrian lanes entirely covered in chairs: Cairo's largest open-air café.
The counter where Zamalek has taken its cappuccino standing up since 1898.
CairoZamalek
Buffalo-milk ice cream and oriental pastries, on a Zamalek pavement since 1928.
Maadi's shopping street, its terraces and its pavement ahwas.
CairoMaadi
The patisserie where you eat standing on the pavement, and where the queue is part of the pleasure.
The popular cafés around the mosque, where Cairo gathers after evening prayer.
CairoSayeda Zeinab
A patisserie of Greek origin, in Cairo since the beginning of the last century.
CairoSeveral addresses across Cairo
Plastic chairs facing the river, a tea, and the best view-for-money in Greater Cairo.
GizaNile corniche, Giza
Terraces above Lake Qarun, in the potters' village.
FayoumTunis village, Lake Qarun
A Greek roaster in Alexandria where you drink your coffee standing, in front of the sacks of beans.
AlexandriaAttarine, Alexandria
A 1929 counter where coffee is drunk standing, in three minutes, as in Naples.
AlexandriaCity centre, Alexandria
Tea facing the Mediterranean, on chairs set between pavement and sea wall.
AlexandriaCorniche, Alexandria
Ahwas between the stalls, where the traders themselves go for tea.
LuxorEast bank, Luxor
Tea beside the calmest stretch of the Nile in Egypt, with feluccas gliding past.
AswanCorniche, Aswan
Cushions set at the water's edge, where a whole day passes without you noticing.
SinaiAssalah, Dahab
Sharm's old quarter: bazaars, ahwas and grills, far from the Naama Bay hotels.
Sharm el-SheikhSharm el-Sheikh
Morning tea under the palms, at the foot of the Shali fortress.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa
The compulsory stop before the White Desert: tea, fuel and last supplies.
The oases and the Western DesertBawiti, Bahariya Oasis
Evening in Dakhla: a few tables on the square, tea, and a silence the city never has.
The oases and the Western DesertMut, Dakhla Oasis
