JULIA’S LIST
Top must see every-day-life sights of Egypt
Cairo sights:
1) Al-Azhar Mosque
2) Al-Azhar Park
3) Ahmed Saeed street
4) Alfi square and street
5) Al-Fustat
6) Abbaseyya
7) Abu Shakra restaurant in Garden City
8) Abu Shakra restaurant in Giza “in front of the Great Sphinx”
9) Attaba market
10) Abdel Azeez street
11) Al-Karnak sweets (kombela)
12) Aqueduct
13) Al-Daher mosque
14) Abu El riche area
15) Al-Gomhoreya street
16) Al-Refaie lamb meat grill house
17) Abu Ashraf restaurant
18) Abu Soliman macaroni
19) Abu Tarek kushari
20) Ashmawi mosque
21) Anglo-Egyptian bookstore
22) Al Zahraa metro station environs and stabl antar
23) Andrea dinner cruise and restaurant
24) Al Muiz Street
25) Abul Seed restaurant
26) All Saints church
27) Al-Saleh Talaei mosque
28) Abdeen District
29) Abdeen palace museum
30) Al-Hussein mosque
31) Al-Hussein Hotel Rooftop café & restaurant
32) Armenian church in downtown
33) Ayyubid walls of Saladeen
34) American University in Cairo
35) Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawon mosque
36) Bo3ooth campus
37) Barquq mosque
38) Bayt al-Suhaimy house
39) Bustan café
40) Bab Zweila gate
41) Blue mosque
42) Batneya alleyway
43) Beshtak palace
44) Borsa (stock market)
45) Book market
46) Boulaq
47) Bab El-Louk
48) Bibito restaurant for Tagens
49) Brass & copper makers
50) Birkash camel market
51) Bab El-Shaareya Square
52) Bab El-Bahr
53) Bibany square
54) Bibany restaurant
55) Baba Abdo Macaroni
56) Banque Misr
57) Baba Abdo Shawerma
58) Bab El-Mandi Yemeni restaurant
59) Caviar shahin
60) Conrad lounge club
61) Coffee roasters
62) Cairo Festival mall
63) City walls of Cairo
64) Citadel view restaurant
65) Camel ride, horse ride or cart ride in Giza
66) Cinema Cosmos for watching Egyptian movie J
67) Café riche
68) Champolion street
69) Crystal Asfour
70) Coptic museum
71) Carpet school
72) Civilization museum
73) Corniche El-Mokkattam
74) Cairo tower
75) Clot Bek street
76) Cairo by night free tour
77) Crystal Dinner cruise and restaurant
78) Darb El Labbana
79) Diwan bookstore
80) Darb 18
81) Dokki
82) Dahsour (Bent and red pyramids)
83) Dinner cruise on the Nile
84) Demerdash area
85) Downtown house
86) Dovetailed colored glass makers
87) El Haty Restaurant in Ramses
88) El Dahhan grillhouse
89) El Geish grill house
90) El-Sheikh Abo Omar restaurant
91) Ezbakeyya garden
92) Egyptian cotton outlets
93) Egyptian Museum in Tahrir square
94) El-Abd bakery & sweetshop
95) Egyptian railway station
96) El Rahmani Sobya
97) El Tayseer Sweets in Ramses square
98) El Sharkawi kebda (Abbaseya branch)
99) Egyptian bread bakery
100) Falaki street
101) Fasahet Sumayya home-made food
102) Fresh juice at isaaf
103) Fire fighting station in Attaba
104) Friday antique market
105) Farahat restaurant for pigeons & lamb chops
106) Faggala street
107) Friday animal market
108) Fanous Ramadan lantern makers
109) Felucca boat ride on the Nile by sunset
110) Fatimid city of the dead
111) Galal shop
112) Green street behind maadi police station
113) Golds gym
114) Giza zoo
115) Grand Calligrapher
116) Ghulshani tekkeya
117) Ghamra
118) Gamaleya street
119) Groppi Garden café
120) Greek club
121) Garden City
122) Gayer Anderson house
123) Gold Island
124) Glass blowers in the Northern city of the Dead
125) Glass blowers in the Fatimid city of the dead
126) Giza Pyramids & Sphinx
127) Harraz the herbalist
128) Habayeb el sayeda Masmat
129) Hassan Fathi house ( the Egyptian Architect house)
130) Halabi square
131) Hanging Church
132) Hoda Shaarawi street for antiques
133) Hantour horse-pulled chariot ride by night
134) Heliopolis
135) Horse Saddlers
136) Hawawshi al Refaei
137) Helmeya district
138) International Park
139) Imam al-Shafei
140) Ibn Tulun mosque
141) Immobilia building
142) Imbaba
143) Ibn Hamido fish restaurant
144) Jacoubian building in Downtown
145) Jashinkeer mosque
146) Konafa & Basboosa from Am Sayyed or Ibrahim Basboosa
147) Kursal for hats
148) Kekhya mosque
149) Khatoun café
150) Korba
151) Loqmet arafa (Sayyeda Zeinab)
152) Lenhert and Landrock bookstrore
153) Latif Wasily bakery
154) La bodega
155) Muhammad Swefy Tour guide (for both free & paid tours exploreegypttrips.com)
156) Magdi cafe in Maadi
157) Madbouli bookstore
158) Modern lighting market
159) Manatili Turkish bath
160) Mounira
161) Mohandessin
162) Musician instruments street
163) Maadi district
164) Museum of Islamic Arts in Cairo
165) Museum statue replica makers
166) Muhammad Ali mosque
167) Mamluk bazaar for cartouche
168) Memphis museum
169) Nilo-Meter
170) New Cairo
171) New Cairo AUC campus
172) Northern City of the Dead
173) Nazlet El-Samman Village behind Giza plateau
174) Naguib Mahfouz museum
175) Naguib Mahfouz restaurant
176) Orabi square
177) Omar Effendi department store in Abdel Azeez street
178) Opera square
179) Omm Kulthoum rooftop cafe in Orabi street
180) Omm Kulthum museum
181) Obama for colored sand bottles
182) Postal museum
183) Precious stones market
184) Palace walk
185) palace of desire
186) Pharaohnic Village
187) Painting café
188) Qijmas mosque
189) Qalawoon Complex
190) Refaei square
191) Red mosque (perfume essential oils)
192) Royal papyrus museum
193) Ramses square
194) Roushdy Street
195) Saad Zaghoul mausoleum
196) Saad Zaghloul market
197) Sadat Academy in Maadi
198) Street 9 in Maadi
199) Sound and light show
200) Sawiris classy restaurant
201) Spice market
202) Sakkakini palace
203) Saqqara Step pyramids
204) Saqqara Blue guest house
205) Sheikh Kamal for Perfume essential oils
206) Southern City of the dead
207) Sufi Whirling Dervish dancing
208) Sultan Hassan mosque
209) Shobra District
210) Sayyeda Nafisa
211) Sayyeda Sakina
212) Sayyeda Roqayya
213) Sayyeda Zeinab
214) Sheikh Saleh al-Jaafari
215) Saint Andrew church
216) Saeed pasha palace
217) Sultan Inal Turkish bath-house
218) Sayyeda Zeinab District
219) Saint Mark Cathedral
220) Saliba street
221) Sheikh Hassan El-Adawi
222) Sayyeda Fatima omm al Ghulam
223) Slaughter house area
224) Sofitel lounge club
225) Sednaoui Department store in Attaba
226) Shorouk bookstore
227) Supreme law court building
228) Sun Cyber
229) Saint Fatima mosque
230) Tent makers’ market
231) Turkish area for Islamic books
232) Tent makers’s market
233) Tawfeqeyya market
234) Tarabishi street
235) Tree log cutters
236) Talaat harb square
237) Talaat hab street
238) Tanneries near the acqueduct
239) Tarboush makers
240) Virgin Mary the Relief church (haret El-Roum)
241) Virgin Mary the Relief church – the Iron condition (haret zweila)
242) Windsor hotel building
243) Wikalat al balah flea market
244) Zizo for Alexandrian liver
245) Zamalek
246) Zawya cinema
247) 26 of July Street
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*Note: the article “THE” was removed from the list items to make it easier for you to search into the list in alphabetical order: e.g.: instead of writing “The Hanging Church” I wrote “Hanging Church” so you just need to go to H letter to find it.
And here are some souvenir and Egyptian products source list:
1. Abdo for Book binding
2. Mo for Mother of pearl
3. Selam for Arabesque
4. MK for Gold & Silver
5. Rashad for Precious stones
6. Matar for Brass & Copper
7. Ayman for Papyrus
8. Sheikh Kamal for Perfume Essential Oils
9. Harraz for Spices & Herbal Medicine
10. The Sweet for Egyptian Cotton Products
11. 6 October for Natural Leather Products (mainly handmade ones)
12. Mostafa for Galabeya, Scarves, & Islamic dress
13. Joya for Lingerie
14. Khaled Belal for Embroidery & cover of Mecca brocade work
15. Dia for Belly dancing costumes
16. Moodi for Stones and Statues
17. Haret el Yahood for Jewlery & costumes
18. Fathy for Rosary
19. Ashraf for Tent Makers’ Patchwork & quilting
20. Gaber for Ivory, Camel bone, Buffalo horns, Ebony, Coral
21. That el Rab3 for Ramadan lanterns
22. Chakkal for Gift shop
23. Sheikh Saeed for CD & DVD
24. Seggada for Handmade carpets
25. Habib for Oil paintings and black & white lithographs
26. Fishawy for Pottery
27. Marwa for Museum-like work replicas
28. El prince for Tree log woodwork
29. Koko for Stucco
30. Affifi for Colored glass
Other areas of Egypt:
Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Dahab, Saint Catherine, Sharm, Hurghada, The Western Desert, The White Desert, The Black Desert, Fayoum, Kharga oases, Dakhla Oases, Bahareyya Oases, The Red Sea, Safaga, Marsa Alam, Shalatin