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}