Cairo in 3 days: Africa's greatest city — 4,500-year-old pyramids 20 minutes from 22 million people, the world's finest ancient collection and medieval Islamic architecture unchanged since the Crusades.
The only surviving Ancient Wonder of the World — the golden light at 7am before the heat and crowds.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe world's largest monolithic statue — 2558 BC, still debated whose face it bears.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideLentils, macaroni, chickpeas, fried onions and chili-tomato sauce at Abou Tarek.
3,300-year-old solid gold death mask, 5,398 undisturbed tomb objects, and the Royal Mummies.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Sphinx narrates 5,000 years of history as the pyramids turn gold, red and blue in the desert night.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide1176 AD fortress with the 1848 Alabaster Mosque — the finest view of Cairo including the Pyramids.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideGold, spices, Bedouin silver and the oldest café in Cairo (El-Fishawy, since 1773) for shisha.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide1km of 11th-19th century mosques and madrasas unchanged — the finest Islamic architecture in Africa.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideNaguib Mahfouz's favourite café — antique mirrors, apple shisha and sweet mint tea at midnight.
The Hanging Church (3rd century), Coptic Museum and the synagogue where Moses may have been found.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe ancient lateen-sail boats on the Nile at sunset — every mosque in Cairo calls to prayer simultaneously.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideEgypt's most beloved green soup with chicken, stuffed vine leaves and Egyptian rice — home cooking at its finest.