Cairo Trips

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 www.cairotrips.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

 

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