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A caravanserai from 1382 turned into a labyrinth of trades. On foot, and without a watch.
CairoGamaliya
An early sixteenth-century Mamluk wikala, now a courtyard of craftspeople and musicians.
CairoAl-Azhar, Gamaliya
Rockwork grottoes built under Khedive Ismail, an aquarium opened in 1902, in the shade, in mid-Zamalek.
CairoZamalek
The spine of Fatimid Cairo, from Bab al-Futuh to Bab Zuweila, and best walked.
Public transport on the river: crossing Cairo by water, for the price of a bus fare.
CairoCorniche el-Nil
Twenty towers in the desert, including Africa's tallest: a skyline out of nowhere.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
Kilometres of riverbank given back to walkers, with benches, lighting and cafés.
CairoFrom Qasr el-Nil bridge to Maadi
An elevated line above Greater Cairo — the ride is worth it for the view.
CairoEast and west of Greater Cairo
A necropolis kilometres long where people have lived among the tombs for centuries.
CairoQarafa, Islamic Cairo
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
A 1907 palace on the Nile, now an art centre — painted ceilings and original parquet.
Tree trunks turned to stone thirty million years ago, on Cairo's doorstep.
CairoSouth-east of Maadi
Public bike hire in Cairo — the idea nobody thought possible.
CairoDowntown, Zamalek, Garden City
Crossing Cairo by river for the price of a bus ticket.
CairoFrom Old Cairo to Warraq
A contemporary art scene showing for free, in flats and workshops.
CairoZamalek, Downtown, Garden City
Belle-époque buildings restored as small hotels — and their roofs open to everyone.
CairoDowntown
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
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
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
Four pools and seventeen water games in north-east Cairo: a children's day out, not a place to swim lengths.
CairoZahraa Madinat Nasr
