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A depression of salt lakes on the desert road, and four monasteries still lived in.
The Delta and the north coastWadi el-Natrun
The spine of Fatimid Cairo, from Bab al-Futuh to Bab Zuweila, and best walked.
CairoGamaliya
A public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
Cairo's flea market: whatever the city threw out, sold again on a Friday morning.
CairoSayyida Aisha
Public transport on the river: crossing Cairo by water, for the price of a bus fare.
CairoCorniche el-Nil
The fanous market, a few weeks a year: cut tin, coloured glass, and a street that stays up.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
The temple stands floodlit gold at the roadside, and people sit out on the Corniche until late.
LuxorCorniche
One long covered street a block back from the river: hibiscus, Nubian basketry, spices.
AswanSouk
Black water, moored feluccas, and headlights sliding along the parapet.
AswanCorniche
A calcite outcrop beside the Farafra road: a rock arch, and crystal splinters all over the ground.
The oases and the Western DesertFarafra road
A medieval mud-brick town: covered lanes, dated door lintels, a minaret and a grain mill.
The oases and the Western DesertDakhla
A stone pool fed by a spring, lit after dark, on the Aghurmi road out of Siwa.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa
A spit of palms in Siwa's salt lake, where people sit down for the sunset.
Monumental sand sculptures, signed by carvers from all over the world.
HurghadaNear Senzo Mall, Hurghada
The quarter from before the hotels: spices, copper, leather, shisha — and bargaining as the common language.
HurghadaEl Dahar, Hurghada
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
