| This desert city is anything but deserted. Home to donkey carts, pickpockets, raucous bazaars, ornate mosques, Nile vistas, polluted skies, lavish hotels, and 16 million inhabitants, Cairo is the largest city in Africa or the Middle East. But even more remarkable than its gargantuan size is Cairo's wealth of archaeological treasures—the Pyramids at Giza, royal burial ground of Saqqara, and famed Egyptian Museum to name a few. |
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| Cairo photo by Ben the Grate |
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Member Carmen writes: "Ancient, but new. Fascinating, but frustrating. Cairo is a city you won't soon forget!…"
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