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One sail, no engine: the wind decides how your hour on the river goes.
AswanNile
The island in mid-river: two Nubian villages, ruins, and the nilometer that set the tax.
Cairo's largest Mamluk complex — and a mausoleum whose occupant never arrived.
CairoRumeila
Muhammad Ali's dynasty rests here — and, with it, the last Shah of Iran.
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
Buildings, borrowed styles, a garden of rare trees — on an island in the middle of Cairo.
CairoManial, Roda Island
A concrete Hindu temple on the airport road, long left to rumour.
CairoHeliopolis
The day power left the Citadel and came down into the city.
CairoAbdeen
The tea room of cosmopolitan Cairo, faded and now under restoration. Come for the decor and the story.
CairoTalaat Harb, Downtown
Downtown's café of writers and conspirators, opened in 1908.
An early twentieth-century patisserie and brasserie, painted ceilings intact, on Saad Zaghloul Square.
AlexandriaSaad Zaghloul, Raml
The southern gate of Fatimid Cairo, topped by two Mamluk minarets you can climb.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
A madrasa, a mausoleum and a hospital from 1284, in the middle of al-Muizz street.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
Two of Snefru's pyramids, one of them changing angle halfway up, and nothing like Giza's crowds.
GizaDahshur
A capital of three thousand years, down to a fallen colossus and an alabaster sphinx. Come warned.
GizaMit Rahina
Three halls on Gezira island, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra — and no main hall without a jacket.
CairoGezira, Zamalek
One hundred and eighty-seven metres midstream, and the city readable at a glance. Go up at dusk.
A temple in the middle of town, open after dark, with a working mosque sitting in its courtyard.
LuxorCorniche
Three white terraces set into the cliff, and the queen's name chiselled out everywhere.
LuxorDeir el-Bahari, west bank
The best-preserved temple on the west bank, with colour still clinging to the ceilings.
LuxorWest bank
The colossus of Ramesses II lies in pieces in his own courtyard: it is the statue behind 'Ozymandias'.
A museum that chose to show little, and to show it well. Keep it for the hot hours.
