TRAVEL

A list of top must see every-day-life sights of Egypt. Al-Azhar Mosque, Al-Azhar Park, Ahmed Saeed street, Alfi square and street, Al-Fustat, etc.

Meet your guide in front of KFC in Tahrir square and start your tour downtown, and then continue to the old Islamic Cairo.

The three pyramids of Giza have always held a peculiar fascination, and in his brief commentary Ibn Battuta sums up why, pointing to an urge to see them as something more than what they are ـــ tombs, albeit on a gigantic scale.