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Thirty hectares of green laid over five centuries of rubble, facing the Citadel.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Rockwork grottoes built under Khedive Ismail, an aquarium opened in 1902, in the shade, in mid-Zamalek.
CairoZamalek
Rows of seated Buddhas under parasols, in a Japanese-style garden south of Cairo.
CairoHelwan
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
Crossing Cairo by river for the price of a bus ticket.
CairoFrom Old Cairo to Warraq
Kilometres of pedestrian riverbank, lit and planted, open until late.
CairoNile west bank, Cairo
North-east Cairo's water park — but only in the hot season.
CairoEl Obour City, km 31 of the Cairo–Ismailia road, Qalyubia governorate
Eighty feddans of lawns and rides at km 26 of the Suez road: the weekend outing of New Cairo families.
CairoNew Cairo — Al Rehab
A children's city inside a mall: they hold down a job, they get paid — and the parents wait.
CairoNew Cairo
Heliopolis's old racecourse turned neighbourhood park: grass, water, and crowds until midnight.
CairoHeliopolis
The countries of the world in miniature, a small zoo and fairground rides: you pay to get in, then you pay by zone.
CairoNasr City
The neighbourhood garden cut to children's size: grass, benches, and a play area charged by the hour.
Two feddans of terraces at the water's edge: a garden to sit in, not to run in.
Grass, shade and room to spread out in the middle of Zamalek, two minutes from the metro.
Four hands-on floors and a planetarium dome — but the door closes in the early afternoon.
A real ice rink on the Maadi corniche, inside a leisure complex that has aged around it.
CairoMaadi, Nile Corniche
Two floors of trampolines inside a mall: it bounces, and it echoes.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
A ten-metre pool on the roof, above the corniche: a day pass at EGP 1,940, gym and jacuzzi included.
CairoGarden City
A pool perched on the Mokattam heights, open to all by reservation — and a club by night.
CairoMokattam
A pool day at 250 pounds in New Cairo, where hotel pools are priced in thousands.
CairoNew Cairo, Fifth Settlement, 90th Street
Four pools and seventeen water games in north-east Cairo: a children's day out, not a place to swim lengths.
CairoZahraa Madinat Nasr
EGP 3,000 for the day — pool, sauna, hammam and gym included — and the hotel publishes the price itself, which is rare.
CairoZamalek, Gezira Island
