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A non Touristic Tour

11/13/2019

A non-touristic tour………… We mean it. The non-touristic places that every tourist really has to visit.
Fortunately, these places don’t get many tourists as they are hard to reach or because their names are not musical enough
The list below is showing you few of them and explain in short words why you have to visit them

Ibn Tulun mosque. The oldest standing mosque in Egypt and Africa. The mosque is occupying a larger area than any other mosque in Egypt. When other mosques were renovated and rebuilt this one remained with the oldest structure. The place is very charming, peaceful and breathtaking when you climb its minaret to watch Cairo from above.
City of the dead…………..The name itself says it all……….. People dying to go there. That day I finished my tour, watched my group left with the van to their hotel when I’ve decided to stay for a little bit more to watch the sunset from my favorite spot there. 2 tourists were wandering by themselves and they got lost. They approached me to ask how they can get to the main road
- thank God we found someone to ask for directions…….. We were so scared to be here by ourselves when it gets dark
- Yep, I understand how you feel……… this place used to scare me too when I was alive.
Poor guys, they ran too fast before I could explain that I was kidding.
PS. Don’t go there by yourself
The Cave churches. In the middle of the noisy crowded Cairo, suddenly, 2 huge churches were decided to be cut into El Mokattam hills. In the way to reach them, you will have to drive through the Garbage city.

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7 TIPS WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER IN CAIRO

11/9/2019

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IN ARABIC IS EASIER
Having the address of the place you are going to in Arabic will make you get there very easy. Don't expect that all drivers will understand when you say " Egyptian Museum", or when you say the pyramids. It is easier to have the name written in a piece of paper in Arabic to show the driver to avoid misunderstanding or confusion. How to get the name of the places in Arabic? you can use papa Googletranslate or follow the link here. where we listed lots of the popular places in both Arabic and English, so you can copy and paste them on a note on your phone or copy the whole list and have it on you.
YOUR PLACE OF STAY ADDRESS
It is A B C traveling to grab a card with the address once you get to the hotel. Cairo is a huge city, has hundreds of hostels and hotels. The name of the hostel can be familiar to the people but they still don't know where it is exactly. The card will have the name and the address, in both Arabic and English. If you get lost or your driver doesn't know where that little hostel is located, at least he can take you to the street.
GUNS
Don't ever believe that everyone in Cairo walks with a machine gun. Possession of guns in Egypt is heavily restricted. You won't see a man with a gun unless he is a police, military or under cover police.
The END.
HOSTELS TOURS
Most of the hostels in Cairo will offer you tours to the main sightseeing. The tours are really cheap, lots of the them are only transportation and no guide. However, the tours are cheap because they will take you to have a camel ride or to a shop where you will be hassled to buy or ride. Not saying don't take the ride or buy anything, just be ready to spend some effort, time or money to go through this. Camel ride is a nice thing to do when you are by they pyramids, but not when you pay too much ( 200 LE per hour is reasonable)
souvenirs are nice too to buy, but not when you feel like you have to.
ISLAMIC CAIRO
Islamic Cairo is a massive area. There are 2 main areas to visit
Area one has the following famous places: Khan El Khalily market, El Azhar mosque, El Moez street, El Hakim Mosque, Bab El Fotoh, Bab El Naser, El Ghoriya complex, and the best sufi show and music in the country ( happens every Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday. Starts at 730 pm and ends like 845. You will need to be there max. at 7 as every show is fully booked. The place is Called Wekalet El Ghorie وكالة الغوري ). All these places are located very close to each others as you can walk easily from one to another.
Area 2 has the following famous places: The citadel, Mohamed Ali mosque, El Sultan Hassan mosque, El Refaai mosque, Ibn tulun mosque, Gayer Anderson house. However, it is still a long walk between each mosque.
ASWAN AND LUXOR TRAINS
Ramses station is the main station in Cairo, so it has like 12 different platforms going to different directions. Giza station is usually the best to get your train to Aswan or Luxor. it has only 2 platforms and you will find there are many other tourist groups as well. We highly advised you to use Giza station to take your train, unless you stay super close to Ramses station or you don't have enough time to head to Giza station.
SUBWAY DOESN'T GO TO THE PYRAMIDS
However there is a station that is called Giza, it is still not going to the pyramids or near enough. The station is still one hour and half walk away from the pyramids, or 25 minutes with a taxi or a bus. Unfortunately, the best way to get to the pyramids is still a taxi or a private car.
Sakkara is in the middle of no where, don't get smart and take a car that drops you there and leave. The transportation that takes you there has to be arranged to wait for you and takes you back.

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If you are not smart, you are food.

8/2/2016

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Tour guide: This is the longest bridge in Cairo and it took 6 years to be finished.
Tourist : Back home we have a bridge the same length and it was finished in a year and half.
Tour Guide: This is Cairo tower, and it took 5 years to be finished.
Tourist : We have a tower back home and it is taller and it took 2 years only to be finished.
Tour guide: The museum of Cairo and it was built in 3 years .
Tourist : You know they built the museum of ...... in 2 years only.

Scene # 2 ( by the pyramid )

Same tourist: Oh WOW what is this ?
Tour guide : I don't know , I was here yesterday and it wasn't there.

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Top 6 complaints that will make you never book with us.

8/2/2016

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I think it should be explained in the brochure that they speak Arabic in Egypt, so I wouldn't have wasted 2 weeks learning Swahili.
I was asked by the camel boy to give him a kiss for a free camel ride. I checked with my guide who told me it is a scam, but it actually worked
I am pregnant from my travel mate, and that wouldn't have happened if i was provided with the 2 beds room i requested at Dahab Hotel.
The hot water in the hotel was too hot.
We really enjoyed Egypt, however, Tokyo was too crowded city, one night there was enough.
I should have been told about the big time difference between Egypt and ..... I woke my boss up at 3 am thought it was 10 am, I think I lost my job. Now I hold CWT responsible for that.

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Mr. Freeman walking freely in Cairo.

10/20/2015

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Mr. Morgan Freeman caught yesterday 19th of October walking in the streets of Cairo, Egypt along with Nationalgeographic crew. They looked like they were in a filming mission in Egypt. Mr. Freeman walked freely while they were preparing the spot, he wasn't recognized instantly by the crowd as for the simple clothes he was wearing and the familiar face of him that is close to so many other Egyptians from the south. We were happy to find this surprise in our way while we were touring Cairo with our group.

Other picture for Mr. Freeman by the pyramids.

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Free nipples by the pyramids

9/15/2015

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Our biggest surprise is coming soon............. our book for kindle on amazon is about to be published . The travel book that Takes you through Egypt but this time is not through the eyes of a traveler ... but through the eyes of a local ....... tells you about the horrible, smart, interesting and kind things that tourists have done to his country.

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SKILLFEED SHUTDOWN NOTICE

9/10/2015

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All courses are no available for free till 30 of September

Just click on the link to the website below
فقط اضغط علي رابط الموقع

https://www.skillfeed.com/#!

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Women from ancient Egypt

9/7/2015

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"I owe girls and ladies from ancient Egypt lots of my earnings; lots of my tipping comes because of their fascinating life stories", said Wael one of our tour guides.
When I work and it comes to one of their stories I notice how people are so interested to hear. No matter if they were famous names like Cleopatra and Nefertiti, or unheard of like Isadora and nefert, they can still attract the ears of my groups after the first few lines of their stories. Let's drop some of the few lines and see what that will do to you

" the 17 years old princess who dreamed to rule the world, and in her way to achieve that dream she caused an empire to fall and another to rise. She caused the death of an emperor, 2 throne princes, her own son and her lover "

" one of the most complicated love stories ever, when the 14 years old girl fell in love with her half brother and she wrote him some of the most finest love poems found written on rolls of papyrus, her true love to her brother forced her family later to bury the poems papyrus with her in her tomb".

" She usurped the throne of the country and ruled Egypt for 24 years, made them one of the most prosperous years of the history of the country.......She said she had to jump on the throne and take it by force to save her country"

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Cairo talks

9/5/2015

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"There are hundreds of versions of my talk to tourists about Cairo. I don't choose which information I tell when I walk with my group", said our tour guide Mostafa El Faham.
" I don't choose what to tell about the city, the city does. I just walk with the group and the city tells me what I have to say. She may blow the call of the pray in the air and it breaks all the other noises, or she sends some students to pass by us going on their daily journey between home and school, so I talk about the education system. Other times it is just a graffiti on a wall that attracts the eyes and then I have to talk about the stand off that was once here,next to the wall, between some youth and the lines of the securities. Then comes the important buildings, squares or statues. After each tour I have to go back and open one of books to review something that has been forgotten in the crowd of information. Each tour, the city teaches me something new about her. Last tour one of the group members pointed to me at one of the stones that was a part of a wall of 200 years old building, but the stone had hieroglyphics on it, which makes it thousands of years older than the building, it was a part of an ancient temple or a tomb, how it ended up there, and what happened to the original temple or tomb. Sometimes the city loves to embarrass me by revealing one of those mysteries and leaves me speechless.
Walking by yourself in the crowded streets with the heavy traffic may makes you feel chased, but walking with one of our guides will make your journey the other way around. You will feel you are in control and it is you who on pursuit to explore the places that other tourists couldn't reach before. It will make you hear the city and the charming welcome for coming all this way long to visit.
Let Cairo welcomes you, let Cairo talks to you through us.
www.Cairowalkingtours.com

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A non Touristic Tour

7 TIPS WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER IN CAIRO

If you are not smart, you are food.

Top 6 complaints that will make you never book with us.

Mr. Freeman walking freely in Cairo.

Free nipples by the pyramids

SKILLFEED SHUTDOWN NOTICE

Women from ancient Egypt

Cairo talks

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