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Cairo is a city where you can spot ancient structures sitting side by side with urban buildings. Cairo , due to Egypt 's historical fame, has become a merging point for different nationalities of Arabic, European and African descent. Still, the practice of traditional customs is very apparent on the streets of Cairo . Fortunately for everyone, Cairo has an underground metro that provides some relief from Cairo 's crowded streets and polluted air. Since Cairo sits along the banks of the Nile , you can also travel by hiring river taxis and sail boats as an alternative to the underground metro and other regular modes of land transport.
If you want to experience Cairo as it may have been hundreds of years ago, plan a visit to “Medieval Cairo” where narrow streets are home to spice peddlers, donkeys with their carts and are bordered by a lot of mosques. A central point in medieval Cairo is Midan Hussein Square where you can see the Mosque of Sayyidna Al-Hussain. The square is surrounded by tea houses and is bordered by a bazaar on one side.
Near this area, you can find a university established in 970 AD. The oldest university in the world is housed inside the Al-Azhar mosque. The nearby Museum of Islamic arts regularly exhibits calligraphy, ceramics and mosaics.
For 700 years, Egypt was ruled from the Citadel. Looking out from the Citadel will reward you with sweeping, panoramic views of the city. Contained within the huge area of the Citadel are four mosques, a cemetery and two museums. One of them, the Mohammad Ali Mosque, exhibits classic Ottoman architecture. The City of the Dead is a cemetery where thousands upon thousands of tombs hold Mamluks in rest. The cemetery has been in existence for close to 900 years. Living side by side with the dead are people housed in poor shanties that crowd around the ironically splendid mausoleums of the dead.
The Museum of Egyptian antiquities is the foremost museum in Egypt . The museum has a huge collection of more than 100,000 exhibits that include the Mummy Room, Byzantine artifacts and the Tutankhamun exhibit among many others. The museum can be found in the more modern part of urban Cairo at Midan Tahrir or Liberation Square . In this same area, cars abound on paved streets that border hotels, office buildings and restaurants.
Opera House : An architectural building design by the team of Japanese and Egyptian architects. Inside the building you will find large hall containing about 1200 seats used for cultural events
The Cairo 's Tower: You can watch the whole city by standing on the Cairo 's Tower. Especially at the time of sunset in the evening and sunrise in the morning, you can see the beauty during lightening.
The Pyramids of Giza : This group of pyramids covers area of 13 acres which is built by a second King of the fourth Dynasty, King Khufu. It is located at the edge of Country's capital, Cairo . These pyramids signify heaven and earth, Gods and humanity and light and dark which suffer every human in their life.
The Zoo at Giza : The most beautiful and popular zoo in the world is “the Zoo at Giza ”. This zoo is run under Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt . You can find different animals and plants species
The Greater Abu Simbel Temple (Ramses II): It is the grandest temple build by Ramses II for his wife, Nefertari. The Egyptian Museum : You will find the collections of artifacts in this famous Museum. Its opening time is 9 am to 5 pm.
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